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Mellel comes with predefined character style variations but they can be redefined by the user one character style at a time, a power that can come in handy when working with unusual fonts and font combinations. You may have inadvertently redefined the C or F3 character style variation in some of you...

When notes come in discrete well-defined chunks and are not directly tied to a particular piece of writing already under way, whether they’re very permanent (journal entries, contacts, memoranda) or very temporary (brainstorming), I like Tinderbox. But I don’t find it easy to compare the text of mul...

The order in the Style Sets menu and the Edit style sets dialogue is always alphabetical by name. (There may be a brief delay before you see a renamed Style Set in its permanent alphabetical order position.) As far as I can tell, the only way to change the order is to change the name. As a general r...

Thanks for the suggestion.

I used older versions of Mellel and Bookends together regularly on 10.13.6 when it was new, and newer versions of both programs continue to support it. Bookends currently wants 10.10 or later, Mellel 10.7 or later. The two programs get along well together in my experience. You should be fine for the...

The video on fonts isn't a general introduction to the Mellel interface and could be a little misleading on this point. To get to the various dropdown menus relating to fonts you need to have the Character palette open with the Attributes tab selected. From the menus you get this with Window > Toggl...

To judge from discussions in this forum, a good number of Mellel owners have relied on MathType to add equations and formulas to Mellel documents. A year or so back Wiris took over the development of MathType from Design Science. The other day Wiris wrote to owners of their newest version (like me) ...

I don't have your printer or a fully comparable one. But the dropdown menu in the Print dialog box (which shows "Mellel 4" until you press and hold) includes an option at the bottom, Printer Features. Pick it and it adds various printer specific options to the dialog box, options that otherwise rema...

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...