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- Wed Oct 25, 2006 2:51 am
- Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
- Topic: request: style names in text for "replace styles"
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6828
Re: request: style names in text for "replace styles&am
Why are there only the style’s details instead of a preview of the style and why couldn’t I see (or preview) the exact passage of the selected style. Agreed, I think your idea is probably the way to go. I just hope there's some improvement on the horizon, it's really much more difficult than it nee...
- Tue Oct 24, 2006 3:28 am
- Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
- Topic: cmd-I and B for italics and bold
- Replies: 24
- Views: 27870
This was actually covered rather extensively in previous fora postings. The only sure way to work around the differences between keyboard shortcuts for style changes and Cmd+[B,I] for ad hoc. changes is to exclusively use one or the other. If you use only styles, then you don't worry about encounte...
- Mon Oct 23, 2006 5:05 am
- Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
- Topic: cmd-I and B for italics and bold
- Replies: 24
- Views: 27870
The only problem with assigning Cmd+[B,I] to style variations is that the Cmd+[B,I] shortcuts are toggles for bold or italics, while style variations switch from variation to another. If you used Cmd+B for a stream of text to make it variation 2 (which you has assigned as bold), this would be fine....
- Sat Oct 21, 2006 12:49 pm
- Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
- Topic: cmd-I and B for italics and bold
- Replies: 24
- Views: 27870
cmd-I and B for italics and bold
I don't think this has been mentioned already. I'm sure there's a reason for the function keys being used for italics and bold; I don't understand all of the subtleties of using styles, but I'm not sure why you'd ever want to make ad hoc changes instead of having them "stick" if you change...
- Sat Oct 21, 2006 12:06 am
- Forum: Mellel
- Topic: how do I change font colors for on-screen background?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3571
how do I change font colors for on-screen background?
Suppose I have a document that I'm already working on, I know how to make the background black, but how do I change my font color (on screen)? Is there is a way to do it without changing all of my character styles? I'm assuming that if I can figure that out, I should be able to do it for my template...
- Fri Oct 20, 2006 11:47 pm
- Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
- Topic: requests re: bibliography palette
- Replies: 19
- Views: 21070
One more thing on the bibliography palette. I end up having a lot of citations with a % in front of it (so that it shows only the date in the text) and others without, showing author and date in the text, and sometimes both for the same reference. In the palette, the cites are sorted alphabetically,...
- Fri Oct 20, 2006 4:40 am
- Forum: Mellel
- Topic: getting logged off the forum
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4507
getting logged off the forum
Maybe it's just me, but I'm getting logged off the forum much more frequently than on other sites, even though I checked the keep box.
- Thu Oct 19, 2006 10:36 pm
- Forum: Mellel
- Topic: improving the web site
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4642
improving the web site
I'm trying to convince someone to take a look at Mellel, and it occurred to me that while I like the web site, it could be doing a better job in selling the product. In clicking on scholars from the home page, for example, there is a lot of text explaining the features, but a notable lack of screens...
- Mon Oct 16, 2006 7:30 pm
- Forum: Mellel
- Topic: bug? forward delete before auto-title or citation object
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3698
bug? forward delete before auto-title or citation object
If you use forward delete and run into an auto-title or citation object (before deleting it), the cursor will stay next to the object even if you backspace or then change/add to the previous text. Hopefully that makes sense. I'm not sure if this is a bug or not, but it would seem the cursor should b...
- Mon Oct 16, 2006 5:12 am
- Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
- Topic: request - zoom to fit palettes
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5747
- Mon Oct 16, 2006 4:06 am
- Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
- Topic: request: cmd-Y to find in reference database
- Replies: 0
- Views: 5693
request: cmd-Y to find in reference database
If you hit "find in reference database" from the bibliography palette, it will open Bookends (if you're using that) and open the find window. If you use cmd-Y from within the text, it will open Bookends. Why not have it open the find window as well, and save an extra step?
- Mon Oct 16, 2006 3:42 am
- Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
- Topic: request - zoom to fit palettes
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5747
request - zoom to fit palettes
If the palettes are open, then hitting zoom should have your document fill the screen until the right border is next to the palettes. Unless I'm doing something wrong, it doesn't do this now. Edit: I'm on a 12" PB, so maybe that behavior is not appropriate in general, but perhaps there is a sol...
- Mon Oct 16, 2006 3:28 am
- Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
- Topic: requests re: bibliography palette
- Replies: 19
- Views: 21070
requests re: bibliography palette
In most cases it probably won't be necessary, but on occasion it would be helpful to be able to scroll the citations window in the bib palette horizontally as well as vertically. And I'd like to be able to resize the palette so there would be more vertical space as well. Also maybe it is possible to...
- Sun Oct 15, 2006 3:34 pm
- Forum: Mellel
- Topic: table - centering text in merged cell
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6931
- Sun Oct 15, 2006 12:52 pm
- Forum: Mellel
- Topic: table - centering text in merged cell
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6931