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Mellel has all the potential markers to make a useful textual index in Framemaker style, but I have been told that only page reference locators made the cut for the initial 4.0 version, but others could, and would, be added later: perhaps we can hope for sections, paragraphs and line numbers.

Charles

Have you tried using Pages for this? I have just tried opening a Word document containing an edition of a Greek inscription in Pages and then exporting from Pages to .rtf. Mellel seems to open the result quite happily with accents, underdots and other arcana in their proper places.

It would be very useful (not to say indispensable) for indexing to be able to make use of any impending line numbering capabilities in Mellel, so that index entries could be tied to a specific point rather than a section or a page - in an edition of texts, for example, that such and such a word occu...

1. Most urgent: 1 (indexing), 16, 27
2. Second choice: 2, 3, 4
3. Third choice: 14, 15, page break before paragraph

Additional choice: full and transparent documentation of Mellel xml format; some sample stylesheets for transformations would be even better.

Charles