I just saw that the Redlers have redone their home-page. It shows a screen-shot of a dummy Mellel document called "The Daily Barker". In this document, the first paragraph starts with an initial. How did they do this? I have been under the impression that there was no function for this in Mellel.
Is it magic or the preview of a new feature coming soon?
Matthias
Edit: Rectified a distorting typo in the thread heading. Thanks Nicka, for pointing this out to me.
Mellel's hompage hinting at initials as new Mellel feature?
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From the title of the thread I imagined something different: perhaps a documentary on the Redlers, or a website that apes Mellel's styling...
It is possible to fake an initial like that with Mellel as it is, by putting a table inside the first column at the top. (You need to make the table lines invisible, of course, and perhaps apply a baseline shift to get the dropped cap to drop.)
It is possible to fake an initial like that with Mellel as it is, by putting a table inside the first column at the top. (You need to make the table lines invisible, of course, and perhaps apply a baseline shift to get the dropped cap to drop.)
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You can also do it without a table.
Create a paragraph. Follow the first character "L" with a tab for reasons that will become clear in a minute. Then style the first character as desired adjusting the baseline until it is in the right place. Set hanging indents so that the text on the following lines lines up next to the L. The tab will lead the text on the first line to line up with the hanging indents for the following lines. Set the units for line spacing to "Points" not lines so that the first character does not increase the width of the first line, and adjust line-spacing for the paragraph (and tweak the size of the L) so that the bottom of the L lines up nicely with a line of your text. Finally, throw in a paragraph break after that line. Set the first paragraph to have no extra space after it, and the second paragraph to have no indent and no space before it.
This strategy makes it a bit easier to get the text to have even line spacing.
Now, it'd be much more in line with the philosophy of the program if it were done with frame-styling or something of the sort.
Anyway, welcome to the Mellel rumors forum...
Create a paragraph. Follow the first character "L" with a tab for reasons that will become clear in a minute. Then style the first character as desired adjusting the baseline until it is in the right place. Set hanging indents so that the text on the following lines lines up next to the L. The tab will lead the text on the first line to line up with the hanging indents for the following lines. Set the units for line spacing to "Points" not lines so that the first character does not increase the width of the first line, and adjust line-spacing for the paragraph (and tweak the size of the L) so that the bottom of the L lines up nicely with a line of your text. Finally, throw in a paragraph break after that line. Set the first paragraph to have no extra space after it, and the second paragraph to have no indent and no space before it.
This strategy makes it a bit easier to get the text to have even line spacing.
Now, it'd be much more in line with the philosophy of the program if it were done with frame-styling or something of the sort.
Anyway, welcome to the Mellel rumors forum...
Re: Mellel's hompage hinting at initials as new Mellel featu
Neither.matthias wrote:Is it magic or the preview of a new feature coming soon?
You can make an initial with Mellel, it's just a little messy: you have to play with indents and baseline shift.
Janet
