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by Cattus Thraex
Mon Aug 27, 2007 7:13 am
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: A long-due missing feature
Replies: 11
Views: 12425

Re: A long-due missing feature

Of course I can, Ori knows the issue. As I cannot attach screenshots to this message, I shall try to explain. Suppose you write a handbook of Latin, and wish to tell your few readers that vowels may be long, short and stressed. This means you should writer a vowel, say a, then add macron above, then...
by Cattus Thraex
Sun Aug 26, 2007 6:30 pm
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: A long-due missing feature
Replies: 11
Views: 12425

A long-due missing feature

Mellel canot correctly handle multiple diacritical marks (those included in the area Combining diacritical Marks), unless an Open Type font is used. Nevertheless, TextEdit and Nisus, among others (iCalamus as well, among DTP) can correctly handle this, and not only with OT fonts, but with any tt or ...
by Cattus Thraex
Sat Dec 16, 2006 3:48 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Newbie question-how to draw a line?
Replies: 4
Views: 5794

Thanks. It sounds a little convoluted, but I’ll try it. Would it be simpler or more complicated to import a line from another program (say OmniGraffle for instance)? I’m trying to create a template for memos. So Mellel does not have simple graphic tools? Or am I missing something I should have alre...
by Cattus Thraex
Sat Dec 16, 2006 3:43 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: RE: Page numbers--separate streams
Replies: 7
Views: 6613

Re: RE: Page numbers--separate streams

Hi, Does anyone have a work-around for separate stream page numbers? For a certain style (our university), in the header of every page I need to give the page number, but in the footer of the same page I am required to write "Continued on page x." This requires two separate streams of pag...
by Cattus Thraex
Mon Sep 25, 2006 8:08 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Long separator for footnotes?
Replies: 5
Views: 6931

Re: Make this a feature request!

I'd like to second this feature request for the possibility to define a second footnote separator line for for those cases when footnotes from one page extent to the next. Having a line of 100% length is indeed a standard in the Humanities. (Hey, come on! Even Word does this …! ;) Thanks! It is ind...