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It's how pdf export from Mellel has worked for many years.

You might try "Thin Space" or "Hair Space" available on the Insert>Special Characters>Space submenu.

As I read the documentation for the new version, additions within the body of an existing table must be made one row or column at a time.

I wouldn’t want to see any change in the current behavior of document variables myself. I think it’s more useful than the behavior called for by earlier contributors to this thread. I think it’s a feature, not a bug. Document variables are best used to automate changes in brief recurrent bits of tex...

Mellel embeds in a pdf the subset of characters actually used from each font the document uses. You can confirm this by opening the pdf in Acrobat Reader and looking under the Fonts tab under File > Properties. This is enough to assure the document has the right appearance for users who don’t have t...

The dynamic parts of an auto-title don't form part of the searchable text of a document in the first place, for reasons that have to do with its role in organizing the document and outline. I believe the closest you can get to what you want is a multi-step step process: Select and copy the static pa...

Insert Reference on the Reference Palette, Cross Reference on the Insert Menu, or double clicking on an existing Reference will bring up the Edit Reference Window. When that window is open and you click into the field at the bottom displaying the layout of your reference, a new option appears on the...

I’m not sure what you mean by “ignoring” the comma. Mellel is a word processor, not a spreadsheet. It doesn’t automatically format numbers, so it won’t automatically add a comma after the the thousands place of a number large enough to call for one. You’ll have to physically type any commas or curre...

I’m not completely sure what you’re trying to do, but this may help. Each Mellel Character style includes specifications for all possible Character attributes. Character attributes you don’t explicitly set while defining or redefining a particular Character style are inherited from the Base Characte...

I think I can see a possible justification. Styles like MLA undergo small changes over time, changes Bookends reflects in its updates. Suppose you’ve got a long document you work on over a long period of time and maintain using Live Bibliography. Without something along the lines of rescan on open, ...

I'm not much of a techie myself, but Mellel doesn't use Apple text services and hasn't had to work around its various longstanding bugs. I've had good luck myself using Typinator for this sort of thing.

In my limited experience you can edit text scanned into your document by Bookends just as if it were regular text, as long as the document remains in its scanned state. I suspect you'd simply lose your edits if you did a subsequent unscan but I haven't checked this, so try things out on a copy of yo...

NO. Accept All or Reject All applies to changes throughout the entire document, whether or not there is a selection when you choose it. And although you can select a stretch of text containing multiple changes or select multiple change bubbles in the Annotation panel, when you do, the Accept and Rej...

My impression is that there’s an important difference between individual Find Actions and the complex Find Sets that run a sequence of Find Actions one after another. With an individual Find Action, you can load it and then take your pick of Replace All, Replace & Find, Next, and Previous. This give...

My own priorities in descending order: 1. Getting the navigation shortcuts in line with prevailing practice in other apps. 2. Ability to insert new rows and/or columns and remove old ones anywhere within the structure of an existing table. 3. Some provision to designate special rows and/or columns a...