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by macsailor
Tue Oct 31, 2006 8:52 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: The retro icon
Replies: 14
Views: 24874

What about this as a new icon for Mellel? Taken from TTS2 Otherz

Image
by macsailor
Tue Oct 31, 2006 12:39 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: How to set up fake Small Caps in the new version
Replies: 1
Views: 3768

There is a very good description regarding this at page 111-112 in the Mellel Guide. There you will also see figured examples. Using “fake” small caps There are some cases where you’ll have to use small caps with OpenType fonts that do not support this option or with a non OpenType font. Although th...
by macsailor
Mon Oct 30, 2006 5:23 am
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: Feature Request: True multi-lingual spell check.
Replies: 56
Views: 61361

It would (also) be nice to already at the writing phase be able to select the text and choose the language that would go for this part of the text. When you later want to make a spell checker, the application (in this case Mellel) would automatically choose the appropriate dictionary. If I'm not mis...
by macsailor
Tue Oct 24, 2006 6:29 pm
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: requests re: bibliography palette
Replies: 19
Views: 21055

Great suggestions.
by macsailor
Sat Oct 21, 2006 1:03 pm
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: cmd-I and B for italics and bold
Replies: 24
Views: 27851

I'm not sure I really follow you. When I select a part of the text in Mellel and use cmd-I, the text will be italic and the same goes for cmd-B and bold . Have I missed something here? I regulary do not use cmd-I and cmd-B, since I usually use the predefined f-keys on my PowerBook. Edit: Now I can s...
by macsailor
Thu Oct 19, 2006 8:02 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Image positioning
Replies: 21
Views: 18848

For those of us that primarly work in text, Mellel is a superb program, and the best out there. I certainly agree on this one. Mellel is by far the best word processor I have used. Even if it's not the most easiest to learn to use, when you have learned to use it and all its features, it's nearly u...
by macsailor
Thu Oct 19, 2006 7:47 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Image positioning
Replies: 21
Views: 18848

But seriously, no text wrap around of images? MacWrite 1.0 could practically do this! As far as I remember, MacWrite did not manage to do that. But I admit it was a very long time ago, so I can be wrong about that. :? Mellel will get this function in the time to come. Hopefully it will not take to ...
by macsailor
Thu Oct 12, 2006 9:28 pm
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: U.S. English spelling?
Replies: 6
Views: 9177

Right, and the Apple dictionary invariably contains both the U.S. and the English spelling... what bothers me is that Mellel, also invariably, highlights the U.S. variations as spelling mistakes. If you dig through the edit menu (Edit > Spelling > Spelling), the little window that comes up offers B...
by macsailor
Thu Oct 12, 2006 6:50 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Image positioning
Replies: 21
Views: 18848

Not possible yet. You'll have to wait for a future version. That's a joke? "The word processor for OS X" who have not so a simple function... and i have paid for it... CU Ghettomaster It's not a joke. But it will probably be implemented in a (hopefully near?) future version of the otherwi...
by macsailor
Mon Oct 09, 2006 5:17 am
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: To Undo or not to Undo..
Replies: 29
Views: 34954

I agree on this one. It's quite annoying to not be able to use the Undo feature as I'm use to while using other word processors (i.e. NWE).
by macsailor
Mon Oct 09, 2006 5:13 am
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Restart bibliographic references in every section?
Replies: 4
Views: 5874

frvs wrote: In the meanwhile, I have made a formal feature request and the Redlers responded, with lightning speed, that this feature is planned for version 2.2.

Cheers!

Francisco
Sounds great!
by macsailor
Fri Oct 06, 2006 11:54 am
Forum: Mellel
Topic: PDF creation
Replies: 11
Views: 11910

Thanks for the free guided tour in the PDF-X park. :wink:
by macsailor
Fri Oct 06, 2006 8:50 am
Forum: Mellel
Topic: PDF creation
Replies: 11
Views: 11910

ozean wrote:Just an idea: have you tried saving your pdfs as PDF-X files? That should embedd additional font info etc. and might help in your case…
Exactly what is the difference between PD and PDF-X (except the embedded font info as mentioned above)?
by macsailor
Sat Sep 30, 2006 4:16 pm
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: Feature request: Learning soft hyphen
Replies: 12
Views: 13892

I agree with you, that sometimes (or maybe most times) it's quicker to use keyboard shortcuts than using palettes or menus.

If I have not totally forgotten, I used to use keyboard shortcuts a lot while using WordPerfect for Mac in the early 90s.
by macsailor
Sat Sep 30, 2006 3:51 pm
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: Feature request: Learning soft hyphen
Replies: 12
Views: 13892

I’d like to be able to do it without leaving the keyboard, which means no palettes and no menus (or palettes and menus BUT with a good keyboard shortcut right out of the box). Let's be generous. Why not let the users choose between several options (keyboard, menus and palettes) and use whatever is ...