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- Mon May 31, 2021 5:40 pm
- Forum: Mellel
- Topic: Half-arsed implementation of footnotes
- Replies: 2
- Views: 14356
Re: Half-arsed implementation of footnotes
This ties into a larger issue. It is often very useful and even necessary to collect both notes and references at the end of chapters, as with an edited or otherwise modular book. Thus, in thinking about how to address the notes feature in Mellel, Eyal should think also about Bookends.
- Tue Apr 06, 2021 3:56 pm
- Forum: Mellel
- Topic: File format for greatest longevity
- Replies: 9
- Views: 17775
Re: File format for greatest longevity
Icelander, I experimented with Libre Office today in opening a few old Word files. Results varied from near-perfect to not correctly capturing the original figures. One from 1989 looks quite good, including line drawings . I was able to make a pdf, so I'm covered that way, but to what do you suggest...
- Tue Apr 06, 2021 1:49 am
- Forum: Mellel
- Topic: File format for greatest longevity
- Replies: 9
- Views: 17775
Re: File format for greatest longevity
Icelander, I’ve used Libre Office for conversion, but forget whether it worked for graphics and equations. If so, that’s great. I will convert a bunch of files when I get a little time. My experience with export to .docx has also been very good, especially with two points that may still not be docum...
- Sat Apr 03, 2021 9:53 pm
- Forum: Mellel
- Topic: File format for greatest longevity
- Replies: 9
- Views: 17775
Re: File format for greatest longevity
I only wish that I had made pdfs of all the Word documents that I wrote back in the 1980s and 1990s. Since there now exist good pdf to Word converters, I'd be in good shape.
- Sat Apr 03, 2021 9:30 pm
- Forum: Mellel
- Topic: Advice on Collaborating with Track Changes
- Replies: 0
- Views: 23450
Advice on Collaborating with Track Changes
I still have scars from working with Word manuscripts that went through multiple collaborators sequentially. Crashes, file corruption, and other ugly stuff. Is anyone aware of problems when doing so with Mellel? Or, to put it differently, do folks have suggestions or cautions about writing in Mellel...
- Mon Nov 23, 2020 10:54 pm
- Forum: Mellel
- Topic: Ori Redler 1964-2020
- Replies: 17
- Views: 246789
Re: Ori Redler 1964-2020
Eyal, although I never met Ori "live," I am devastated because of getting to know the two of you so well through cyberspace. I can only offer my condolences.
- Thu Nov 19, 2020 1:16 am
- Forum: Mellel
- Topic: Big Sur - is it OK to upgrade
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5951
Re: Big Sur - is it OK to upgrade
If you need equations in your documents, then both Catalina and Big Sur are problems. MathType is supposed to be developing a version that will work, but that is not promised until sometime in 2021.
- Fri Aug 14, 2020 3:21 pm
- Forum: Mellel
- Topic: Keeping caption and figure together
- Replies: 11
- Views: 13656
Re: Keeping caption and figure together
I have done further checking. I ran into problems previously when I inserted images in pdf format (making it possible for publishers to edit figures without having my original drawing-program files). As I recall, this created problems with some journals because they would translate the pdfs into Wor...
- Fri Aug 14, 2020 2:43 pm
- Forum: Mellel
- Topic: Keeping caption and figure together
- Replies: 11
- Views: 13656
Re: Keeping caption and figure together
Wow, I never thought of that! Is this effect a bug or a feature? I don't understand the logic that must be driving this. It may be compelling. For years, I have used in-line wrapped figures because, when I have not, I have run into very annoying problems with exported versions of the manuscript. I d...
- Wed Aug 12, 2020 10:16 pm
- Forum: Mellel
- Topic: Keeping caption and figure together
- Replies: 11
- Views: 13656
Re: Keeping caption and figure together
I have put a-two-page file illustrating the problem is at
http://www.mediafire.com/file/xeo5tbkt1 ... ellel/file
http://www.mediafire.com/file/xeo5tbkt1 ... ellel/file
- Tue Aug 11, 2020 6:53 pm
- Forum: Mellel
- Topic: Keeping caption and figure together
- Replies: 11
- Views: 13656
Re: Keeping caption and figure together
Ah, so you want the caption to be *above* the figure, now I understand. :–) There is a setting "Keep with next", where one specifies the number of lines in the next paragraph, but this does not seem to work when the next paragraph is an image. The Keep-with-next-field in the Paragraph sty...
- Tue Aug 11, 2020 3:21 pm
- Forum: Mellel
- Topic: Keeping caption and figure together
- Replies: 11
- Views: 13656
Re: Keeping caption and figure together
Sorry, I apparently did not explain well. Here's the picture Text... (paragraph style) Figure Caption (a tag flow with Figure Caption style) Image (e.g., a .png) (Figure Placement style) Text (paragraph style) If all of this appears low on a page, then Mellel may insert a page break between Figure C...
- Mon Aug 10, 2020 9:46 pm
- Forum: Mellel
- Topic: Keeping caption and figure together
- Replies: 11
- Views: 13656
Keeping caption and figure together
I have an auto-title and style for Figure Title . The style specifies next paragraph as Figure Placement . I use this to insert figures that are typically .png images. How do I assure that the figure title and image remain together, rather than separated by a page break? There is a setting "Kee...
- Thu Aug 06, 2020 11:47 pm
- Forum: Mellel
- Topic: Selective acceptance of changes
- Replies: 0
- Views: 23407
Selective acceptance of changes
As of now, if one selects a bunch of text and specifies that changes within the selection be accepted, this does not cause changes to be accepted within notes occurring in the selected text. Instead, it seems that one must select the notes one by one to accept changes. Two questions: 1. Would it be ...
- Thu Aug 06, 2020 11:18 pm
- Forum: Mellel
- Topic: Selective acceptance of changes
- Replies: 0
- Views: 22718
Selective acceptance of changes
As of now, if one selects a bunch of text and specifies that changes within the selection be accepted, this does not cause changes to be accepted within notes occurring in the selected text. Instead, it seems that one must select the notes one by one to accept changes. Two questions: 1. Would it be ...