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by AKMA
Tue Jul 14, 2020 9:01 am
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Mixed Hebrew and English
Replies: 3
Views: 4306

Re: Mixed Hebrew and English

Thank you , Janet! I considered it a triumph when I located the RtL option in the Character Attributes>Options menu; I had not noticed the Direction-Break Space item as well. I will admit to wishing there were just a <span> X </span> command I could invoke, but this is what I needed to learn. EDIT:...
by AKMA
Mon Jul 13, 2020 9:13 am
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Mixed Hebrew and English
Replies: 3
Views: 4306

Mixed Hebrew and English

I'm working on a text written primarily in English, but with occasional short passages in Hebrew. Switching directions works fine for simple prose (thank you, Mellel!), but it goes haywire whenever parentheses enter the picture. If, for instance, I need to type the sequence 580 (×–) [followed by a co...
by AKMA
Mon Jul 06, 2020 6:54 am
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Figuring Out Epubs
Replies: 1
Views: 3297

Figuring Out Epubs

I am well pleased by version 5, and especially delighted with the export-to-epub option, which works more smoothly than any other such export with which I've worked. I've been having trouble, though, with what you might call casually-formatted text. I've produced a number of Mellel-to-PDF texts that...
by AKMA
Fri Jun 26, 2020 10:26 am
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: End of Chapter notes and bibliography
Replies: 9
Views: 22702

Re: End of Chapter notes and bibliography

Count me in. In fact, I'd settle for some way to interpose headers between sets of notes for distinct sections. Indeed, it's hard to imagine how one could look at a series of endnotes of a document divided by sections, see endnote 315 immediately followed by endnote 1 with no explanation, and not se...
by AKMA
Tue Mar 11, 2008 2:15 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Book Layout Two-Up PDF
Replies: 21
Views: 21509

Re: Book Layout Two-Up PDF

The latest version of Cheap Impostor, http://www.cheapimpostor.com/, seems to resolve this problem simply and powerfully.
by AKMA
Thu Feb 07, 2008 12:23 am
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Book Layout Two-Up PDF
Replies: 21
Views: 21509

Re: Book Layout Two-Up PDF

Thank you, palazzo; that's exactly where our conversation began. We can certainly print pages two-up through the print dialogue box, but this approach entails certain drawbacks -- either needing to construct awkwardly-shaped pages of enlarged text on US-ian 8.5 x 11 pages, or needing to construct ha...
by AKMA
Thu Jan 31, 2008 1:59 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Book Layout Two-Up PDF
Replies: 21
Views: 21509

Re: Book Layout Two-Up PDF

Thanks for the pointer, Obeid, although it looks as though BookLightning imposes the pages, whereas I would just like the pages laid out consecutively, side by side.
by AKMA
Wed Jan 30, 2008 7:35 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Book Layout Two-Up PDF
Replies: 21
Views: 21509

Re: Book Layout Two-Up PDF

Janet, Thanks! I was aware, in some obscure recess of my memory, that this would work -- though I feel grouchy about having to construct a page layout that I don't actually want to use as-is. It's probably more complicated for US paper, since our page size doesn't divide elegantly and evenly into ha...
by AKMA
Tue Jan 29, 2008 2:45 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Book Layout Two-Up PDF
Replies: 21
Views: 21509

Re: Book Layout Two-Up PDF

Janet, thank you for your time and advice. I have been worrying this problem partly because it involves (as you say) real-world production matters -- but those are relatively insignificant, since I print mostly materials for academic purposes, where nobody expects anything other than Times New Roman...
by AKMA
Mon Jan 28, 2008 6:02 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Book Layout Two-Up PDF
Replies: 21
Views: 21509

Re: Book Layout Two-Up PDF

Excellent! Now, to clarify: Had you produced a two-up PDF from Mellel (via Print menu) that you then printed directly from Graphic Converter with the settings you describe, or did you produce a single-page PDF from Mellel, which you then made two-up via the print command from GC? (I've been trying v...
by AKMA
Mon Jan 28, 2008 2:41 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Book Layout Two-Up PDF
Replies: 21
Views: 21509

Re: Book Layout Two-Up PDF

Janet, Thanks for your trouble. I remain utterly mystified, though; I follow your steps precisely ( mutatis mutandis , US Letter) and I get the same reduced-size results as ever. Mind you, the PDF itself looks all right (a little smallish when I open it in Preview), but when I print it, the page are...
by AKMA
Fri Jan 25, 2008 3:26 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Book Layout Two-Up PDF
Replies: 21
Views: 21509

Re: Book Layout Two-Up PDF

I spent some time this morning fiddling with "printer margins" and the scaling; neither seems to make a decisive difference. So far.
by AKMA
Fri Jan 25, 2008 2:23 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Book Layout Two-Up PDF
Replies: 21
Views: 21509

Re: Book Layout Two-Up PDF

Ugh, OK. Document Setup (File Menu): Facing Pages, .5" Top, .75" right, 1" bottom, .75" left Page Setup (File Menu): User-Defined paper size, 5.5" x 8.5" portrait orientation Then when printing, I choose the "Layout" option of two-up pringint, side by side. Pr...
by AKMA
Thu Jan 24, 2008 11:14 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Book Layout Two-Up PDF
Replies: 21
Views: 21509

Re: Book Layout Two-Up PDF

I just tried printing through Graphic Converter, and it does the same thing I've described; it adds a band of margin around the (half-)page it lines up for the PDF. Likewise Mellel -- so I'm inclined to think that there's an Apple routine in there somewhere. NeoOffice generates a correct PDF, but at...
by AKMA
Thu Jan 24, 2008 8:13 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Wishlist 2008
Replies: 62
Views: 197177

Re: Wishlist 2008

My one request (well, it's easy to limit it to one, since others have covered many other desiderata): Column headers/footers and numbering (similar to page numbering), so that layouts where a column functionally represents a page can be headed, footed (?), and numbered accordingly. In other words, i...