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As I understand it, the space available in the auto-title dialogs is too small for the entire length of the ruler to be shown. It is best to set the ruler via the paragraph menu in order for it to be accurate, and in the auto-title setup to select the corresponding paragraph menu item from Mellel's ...

To use a tab inside a table, press option-tab instead of simple tab.This is documented in the Mellel Guide and in my Tutorial for Beginners.

Don Broadribb

This oddity has long been noticed.Don't worry about it. The space available in the Auto-Titles setup for TOC is not big enough to reflect the true position of tabs and margins, so only approximate them. When you actually generate your Table of Contents, you will find that your tabs and margins are a...

Right you are. I have done some experimentation and it is clear that the direction setting icon in the paragraph set up dialogue is not reflected in the direction setting icon of Mellel proper, which means that there definitely is a bug in this, and I strongly suggest you send a bug report to the Me...

From your message, it sounds as though you want to have a paragraph style of English language text that goes from left to right, and another paragraph style of English language text that goes from right to left. The direction changing arrow is not meant for that sort of thing. Its use is specificall...

More succinctly, OS X provides a way to move between keyboards (in this case, English and Arabic) by using the keyboard shortcut command-space. For writing in the Arabic texts, open the secondary font palette, in the script list choose Arabic, and in the font list choose Baghdad. After this, wheneve...

I have never run into any problem of this sort with Mellel. I use the same computer setup as you, except mine is an iMac rather than a Macbook. It sounds like something has got screwed up with your Mellel installation. I suggest removing the Mellel program entirely from your computer (preferably usi...

Unfortunately you are right about this. There is a way to make a sort of work-around for this which does not use the markers: define a character style with the color you want, e.g. lime , appropriately name the style. Lime Character Style Setting.jpg Then create an appropriately named paragraph styl...

If you are using the Snow Leopard, there is a very simple way to do this. In the Mellel Menu, click on Services Preferences, and when Snow Leopard's Services Preferences setup appears, under Keyboard Shortcuts you'll find an item called Services. This will bring up a long list of items of which can ...

If you take a look at http://www.atour.com/fonts/ you will find a vast number of Syriac fonts, whose various glyphs are available to Mellel. For example, the Marshimun font includes the following: Clipboard 31.jpg All of these are available to Mellel. You would find it easiest to get hold of Pop Cha...

I rather fear that you are out of luck on this. Mellel Is simply not capable of reproducing the extra letters. Interestingly, I did find that TextEdit is able to reproduce many, maybe all (I'm not sure, I only did a very cursory examination), and if you ferret around in its somewhat hard to find set...

Somehow I don't quite understand this. I put my multilingual text into Pages. The document consists of material in Portuguese, French, German, and Esperanto. Following your diagram, I highlighted the Portuguese text and chose Portuguese as the language, then did the same for each of the other langua...

When I make a boo-boo, it's sure to be a really big one. And that I have done so is glaringly obvious. :evil: I apologize to all and sundry, and promise to be more careful about triple checking what I write for public consumption. Meanwhile, as I munch on my foul tasting humble pie, here is a consid...

It has been widely assumed that the "Automatic by Language" feature of the spell checker simply does not work in Mellel. I decided this morning to work out what exactly the problem really is. I discovered something quite interesting. Users of Mellel have largely been assuming that because ...

For some time I have been searching for a way to make upper case letters lower case in Mellel using Snow Leopard. The Appearance palette has a setting for All Upper Case, but none for All Lower Case. With some experimenting, I found that it is possible to set an "All lower case" function i...