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I've noticed that if I edit the citation, and then add more citations, and re-scan, it rescans this citation and deletes my manual changes. That makes editing it impractical. ;-) Any way to suppress this behavior I've been struggling with this same issue and suspect that the answer is No--but I'd l...

matthias--
Thanks for your quick reply. This is easy.
James

I am finally trying to get the hang of Bookends and stumble at what should be a simple thing. When I choose Copy Citation in Bookends with Mellel running and a document open, I do get a temporary citation in my document. But it does not appear between curly brackets, like this: {}. Rather, the citat...

I have the same experience--newly created Style Sets are automatically global. But this seems to be a minor problem, because it is so easily fixed. If you want to keep your Style Set Menu from becoming cluttered with document-specific Style Sets, simply open Style Set >Edit Style Sets, choose the no...

Trying to put a different header on even and odd pages in a sample document was unfruitful. I never tried this before, but I was able to do it without trouble. Open the Page palette and under Header & Footer choose Page Type: Even/Odd; then tick “All/Odd header” AND “Even header” then go to you...

And then styles I created for one document show up in others. Will I have an interminably long list of styles as I use Mellel more and more? — I'm missing something very basic here.) Among your several questions, let me try just this one. I, too, was for a while confused about this, so I sympathize...

Actually, you don’t have to hit the tab. If you go to Insert > Note > Edit note attributes, you can set Note symbol format to include a tab. Then just position your tab marker where you want it. I should say, though, that for me, anyway, the upper triangle (for notes) controls the starting position ...

Don-- Once again, Thank you. Your instructions are clear and the screenshots show what you say. I *am* able to get the lower triangle to control as you say in the Paragraph Style Edit window (Paragraph > Edit "name of style"). But I cannot do the same in the footnote itself. Even when I mo...

As far as I can see, this is precisely what my suggested procedure achieves. Despite the fact that the lower triangle normally does nothing to the first line of a text, in the case of footnote texts it really does indent the footnote text tothe right of the # to however far you wish, starting with ...

I’d like to make a ‘brochure’ with horizontal page orientation and two columns per page. I’d also like to have a ‘page’ number (in header or footer) for each column. This requires two numbers per page. Is it possible to do this using automatic numbering function?
Thanks.

2) endnotes and footnotes are not exported to Word or RTF formats. As an academic in a field where pretty much every journal expects you to submit in Word format, & where footnotes are in pretty much everything I write, these omissions rule out Mellel for me. Am I missing something? I hope so.....

wilder wrote:After updating to 2.1.2, I lost all my previous preferences... So be careful and back up your preferences.

I'm surprised to hear this since with previous upgrades preferences have been preserved.

In any case,

How does one save preferences?

Thanks,
James

As a hint, I think you should read the section in the Mellel Guide's Find and Replace section closely on the definitions of 'greedy' and 'repetition'. Thanks for the suggestion. Greedy helps a lot. I'm getting closer. I'll do my homework and see if I can figure it out from here. (I think I discover...

Wouldn’t a character set from U+0370 to U+1FFE work? This set contains all your needed Greek characters (among others) but doesn’t contain the Roman characters (which are from U+0000 to U+0240 if you use a extended set) Yes this does find any character, but it doesn't find words, etc. What I'm afte...

If you just want to find greek characters then you can use a "Character Range" element and enter the appropriate start and end character codes (for greek these are U+0370 to U+03FF. You can always refer to the character palette to see where the ranges start and end. This is very helpful. ...