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Hello, I've been happily using Mellel with Sente with no problems. Recently, though, when I hit "Scan document" (with Sente open in the background), it brings up a window saying "Scanning document . . . " and just sits there without anything happening. It is only doing this with...

Hmm, yes that seems to be a bug in Sente. I would send an email to the support. You can add an element, and there is an element called "paragraph separator" but it doesn't seem to be working. Is this how you tried? Yes. That is what they told me to do. I when I pointed it that did not wor...

I'm a former Bookends user and know it well. Sente's bibliography format editor is probably the most powerful on the market. This issue is probably better on the Sente forum, but I'm happy to try and help if I can. It will not put a return into the bibliography. I want my bib to look like this: Aut...

Is there a reason you are moving to Bookends rather than staying with Sente? They are both excellent Ref managers and both integrate with Mellel - both do live bibliography as well. I am just on the last draft of my dissertation and I also worked chapter by chapter, but that didn't stop me from jus...

rpcameron wrote:If you're writing in segments, perhaps your best option is something like Scrivener and RTF rather than Mellel ...

I am aware of that option and have not ruled it out. Scrivener does seem designed for that approach. I shall probably revisit that path as well.

I don't know if live bibliography is really of particular significance in this case. The thing is that you will write each chapter as a separate document, and before submitting it you will scan the document to get the bibliography. When, towards the end of your work, you will be working on the whol...

rpcameron wrote:RTF will be your best bet. Word support is OS dependent, and different OS X versions support different features. However, Mellel's RTF support is not OS dependent, so that's always your best option.

Thank you for that. Your point addresses my concern and makes good sense. Much appreciated. Cheers!

What is the best way of getting a Pages document into Mellel? Export the Pages document as a Word document and then import that into Mellel? Or should I exported as a RTF and then bring it into Mellel?

I thinking of moving my dissertation in Mellel with Bookends. I was writing it in Pages with Sente. The latest Pages broke Sente. In its latest updates, Dragon Dictate don't work as well with the old Pages. My question is this: I would like to use the live bibliography feature combined with Bookends...

NW has some features like macros that I find indispensable for grading papers--I use macros to insert canned comments. Could you give us some information or links about NWE's macro system? I googled around and saw reviews that said NWE's macro system was a step backward from the old NW macros, but ...

Just in a way of a general comment: I cannot really say what will be in "Nisus Pro" or how it will work. At present, this is vaporware, because no one can test it, even as an alpha or beta. Up until now, in the four+ years of NWE it has relied, by and large, on Apple's generic text engine...

If you're looking for different styles for different levels, then no, it can'ts be done. However, if you just want different styles for list items than for the rest of your document, then yes, you can create those. Just check out the style sets dialogue, and create new List styles. (And no, I don't...

I really wish I could create legal lists in the List feature rather than having to do them in Auto-titles. I often outline things for students and my preferred form is legal, like this. 1. 1.1 1.1.1. 1.1.1.1. That does not seem possible to do using lists. Doing it in auto-titles is possible but more...

STOP! PLEASE DON'T TOUCH THE FOOTNOTES IN FULL SCREEN MODE! I very often work in Full Screen mode, and the footnotes are an absolutely fundamental part of my workflow. A separate Draft view, fine; a Full Screen view with options to get the headers and the footnotes out of sight, fine; but the footn...

Much as I am a fervent Brit-o-phile, alas I live in the U.S., and must thus abide by their we-just-wanna-be-naughty spelling rules. Mellel doesn't seem to have an option to select U.S. English for its spell checker. Short of teaching it all the U.S. variants as they come up red, what can be done? I...