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by DylanMuir
Mon Feb 11, 2013 8:15 am
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: Make first letter of sentence large (drop cap)
Replies: 2
Views: 7008

Re: Make first letter of sentence large (drop cap)

I think an image is currently your only option. An Illustrator file just containing the single capital letter would be a good choice.

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by DylanMuir
Mon Feb 11, 2013 8:13 am
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: Mellel 3.0 and Sente
Replies: 11
Views: 24165

Re: Mellel 3.0 and Sente

I am on 10.8.2. It sounds very much like the same bug. If you don't want to log out/in it sounds like killing appleeventsd would also fix the problem temporarily.

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by DylanMuir
Fri Feb 08, 2013 5:08 pm
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: Mellel 3.0 and Sente
Replies: 11
Views: 24165

Re: Mellel 3.0 and Sente

Also, integration with Sente randomly breaks for me — I can switch between the two apps with cmd-Y, but this stops inserting a reference into Mellel as it should. Also, scanning breaks at the same time. Restarting either or both applications doesn't help; I have to reboot to restore functionality. T...
by DylanMuir
Fri Feb 01, 2013 11:36 am
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: Fix equation alignment in Mellel
Replies: 4
Views: 12247

Fix equation alignment in Mellel

Hi, I used to use MathType to generate equations to embed in Mellel. This used to work great -- Mellel would automatically incorporate the baseline adjustment from a pasted equation, and everything looked perfect. However, with the latest versions of Mellel and MathType, the baseline adjustment is l...
by DylanMuir
Fri Feb 01, 2013 11:30 am
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: Mellel 3.0 and Sente
Replies: 11
Views: 24165

Re: Mellel 3.0 and Sente

Live bibliography would be great. But it would be even better if the redlers fixed the bugs with surrent Sente comments — for example, the option to not enclose the citation doesn't work at all.

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by DylanMuir
Wed Aug 15, 2012 8:41 am
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Why is iCloud support MAS only?
Replies: 18
Views: 36488

Re: Why is iCloud support MAS only?

~/Library is hidden, but at least at the moment it is always present, and that is where iCloud documents are synced to.

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by DylanMuir
Tue Aug 14, 2012 7:05 am
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Why is iCloud support MAS only?
Replies: 18
Views: 36488

Re: Why is iCloud support MAS only?

Your iCloud documents are synced into ~/Library/Mobile Documents. Within that folder there will be a folder with "Mellel" in the title, probably (I don't have the MAS version, so I don't know the exact name). In a sub-folder called "Documents" will be all your iCloud Mellel docum...
by DylanMuir
Thu Jul 12, 2012 7:23 am
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Save Version/Discard changes
Replies: 9
Views: 10283

Re: Save Version/Discard changes

Janet, as I understand it, these saving semantics are how Apple wants to do things now. You don't need to explicitly save, and state is always preserved when you close and open a file. It takes a bit of getting used to, but it's not the Redlers that have chosen this. As Don said, one can always sele...
by DylanMuir
Fri Jul 06, 2012 7:58 am
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: and on to 3.1
Replies: 25
Views: 80545

Re: and on to 3.1

I'm a little surprised that there's a live bibliography, but no live tables of contents. Live bib. requires a round-trip interaction with a piece of external software, whereas live contents would all be done within Mellel.

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by DylanMuir
Sat May 05, 2012 10:17 am
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Insert a Chart
Replies: 2
Views: 2949

Re: Insert a Chart

The issue occurs when you have paragraph line spacing set to a "lines" unit, and in the options of the image "adjust fixed line spacing to image" is selected. I think this is covered in either the Mellel guide or the tutorial.

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by DylanMuir
Fri Apr 27, 2012 6:57 am
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Support for BibTex in Mellel
Replies: 3
Views: 7213

Re: Support for BibTex in Mellel

The issue with direct bibtex support in Mellel is that Mellel would then be responsible for formatting the bibliography and citations. The Redlers would have to write a module from scratch to handle all the complexity of flexible formatting for different journals. Personally I would prefer they leav...
by DylanMuir
Tue Mar 20, 2012 7:08 am
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: Long document variable does not respect document borders
Replies: 5
Views: 11854

Re: Long document variable does not respect document borders

Sounds like a bug that should be reported to the redlers.

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by DylanMuir
Wed Feb 08, 2012 10:37 am
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Bug: text deleted and replaced with many lines of a letter
Replies: 1
Views: 2142

Re: Bug: text deleted and replaced with many lines of a letter

That's weird. You should send an email to the Redlers with a bug report.

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by DylanMuir
Wed Feb 08, 2012 10:28 am
Forum: Mellel
Topic: keyboard shortcuts
Replies: 1
Views: 2399

Re: keyboard shortcuts

Yes. Look in the Edit menu: there are short cuts for "right to left" and for "left to right". I guess there's no "toggle direction".

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by DylanMuir
Thu Jan 19, 2012 3:26 pm
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: Selecting all footnotes (a variant)
Replies: 11
Views: 19913

Re: Selecting all footnotes (a variant)

Is it possible to use the find/replace styles functionality in this case? That would only work if the footnotes had consistent unique formatting, of course...

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