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by joewiz
Wed Feb 28, 2007 4:53 am
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Styles...
Replies: 16
Views: 12902

Hi Stephen, It's possible Mellel worked differently at the time that tutorial was written, or it's possible I don't understand some aspect of the 'Global' functionality... We may have to wait for someone to correct me or confirm what I said. More importantly, though: Does the current functionality l...
by joewiz
Tue Feb 27, 2007 10:17 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Styles...
Replies: 16
Views: 12902

That's the way it works. When you create a Style Set, it's automatically Global. The only time you'll see a Style Set that isn't Global is when you open up a document whose Style Set isn't already defined in your copy of Mellel. For example, if a colleague sends you a Mellel file with containing a n...
by joewiz
Tue Feb 27, 2007 10:01 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: How-to shorten auto-titles in header
Replies: 8
Views: 7060

Wow, that's clever! I hope it won't always be necessary to go to such 'lengths'!
by joewiz
Tue Feb 27, 2007 3:20 pm
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: Paragraph spacings: add together or use the maximum
Replies: 5
Views: 5770

Thanks for the careful description and vote choices! I chose "Choose between the first three behaviours with two additional Paragraph Style settings" because I think it would give the most flexibility. In one part of a document I might want 'additive' measurements, and in another I might w...
by joewiz
Tue Feb 27, 2007 4:01 am
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Tables questions
Replies: 13
Views: 10010

By the way, the Redlers are aware of the lack of table sorting in Mellel, as it compares to other apps like Word:

http://www.redlers.com/mellelcompetitive.html

(Scroll down to Tables > Table sorting)
by joewiz
Mon Feb 26, 2007 7:32 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: keyboard shortcut to switch between documents
Replies: 5
Views: 4332

Did you know that you can use the same key combination to go backwards through the list of running applications, after invoking the list with Command-tab? Wow... I didn't know that. I thought the only way to move backwards through the cmd+tab list was cmd+shift+tab... Your way is easier on the fing...
by joewiz
Mon Feb 26, 2007 5:25 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: keyboard shortcut to switch between documents
Replies: 5
Views: 4332

On a US keyboard it's typically command+`. You can check and change this setting in:

System Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse > Keyboard Shortcuts > (Keyboard Navigation >) Move focus to next window in active application
by joewiz
Mon Feb 26, 2007 5:20 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Background color and printing
Replies: 8
Views: 9030

However, I must say the solution is stunningly non-intuitive and not documented in the online help. Color and background searched independently yielded - "No pages with your search words were found". If you download the Mellel Guide (PDF) http://www.redlers.com/download.html and search fo...
by joewiz
Mon Feb 26, 2007 5:13 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Footnote: automatically add "next page"-note
Replies: 8
Views: 6317

Interesting. Where precisely should this text appear?
by joewiz
Tue Feb 20, 2007 3:11 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Bookends citations post-scan
Replies: 5
Views: 4323

JoeWiz, how do you have yours set? Basically i want everything that comes from Bookends to stay as it is- bold=bold, italics=italics, etc. And I want the in-text citations to have the same paragraph formatting as its surrounding. Should I adjust it to a certain paragraph style? My In-text citations...
by joewiz
Mon Feb 19, 2007 7:51 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Bookends citations post-scan
Replies: 5
Views: 4323

Thanks for your help. Unfortunately this does not seem to change anything. I have it set to not replace the paragraph or character styles that are sent from Bookends, yet it is putting it in-text citations to 10pt font. i can't figure out why. So in the Bibliography Preferences pane, you have Parag...
by joewiz
Mon Feb 19, 2007 5:21 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Bookends citations post-scan
Replies: 5
Views: 4323

Re: Bookends citations post-scan

I can't find anywhere in the preferences or the userguide that says bibliographic material from Bookends is tied to a particular character style. How can I get Mellel to keep the in-text citations at 12pt font? The preference for this is set in Mellel > Preferences > Bibliography > Replace. Click o...
by joewiz
Thu Feb 08, 2007 2:53 am
Forum: Mellel
Topic: "Don't enclose final citation" and Bookends Prob
Replies: 2
Views: 3208

Re: "Don't enclose final citation" and Bookends Pr

Hi all... I've been trying to figure out the integration with Bookends and have noticed a problem.. the "Don't enclose final citation" does not seem to work. I check the box, append something like: \, 289.\ to the end of it, produce a Chicago 15th footnotes, and I still get the period whi...
by joewiz
Mon Jan 29, 2007 5:53 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: typographer's quotes post scan becoming straight
Replies: 3
Views: 3237

yes, it is in the main text. A few are in footnotes as well, but the footnotes do not have BE citations. In that case, this is a huge bug (on Mellel's side, I'd guess), and you should send your Mellel document and Bookends database -- with steps to reproduce the buggy output -- to the Redlers so th...
by joewiz
Sun Jan 28, 2007 3:09 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: typographer's quotes post scan becoming straight
Replies: 3
Views: 3237

Re: typographer's quotes post scan becoming straight

I have typographer's quotes turned on in my Mellel preferences. In the document, they all look fine. After I do a bibliography scan to add the citations from Bookends, I am finding random quotes and apostrophe's that have become straight quotes in the text, while others have stayed curly. It is com...