Greetings,
I am new to both Mellel and Bookends. My question concerns what happens after I scan in Mellel. Instead of returning to that point in the document at which I initiated the scan, I am taken to the end of the document. If one is wanting to scan every few pages, this gets frustrating. Is it possible to tell Mellel or Bookends to put the cursor back where it was when the scan was initiated? Thanks.
gguthrie
post-scan question
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I agree too. It's very irritating.
For the moment, there are a few workarounds. One is to choose a particular marker colour that you don't use for anything else and apply it at the place where you are working before the scan. Then Apple-double-click the marker in the palette after the scan and you are back to where you were.
This is also a kind of workaround for the lack of a genuinely useful feature for long documents Word has where you can cycle the cursor position through your last few edits. To get similar functionality in Mellel, mark each place that you are working on with the chosen marker. Then Apple-double-clicking cycles through those locations. It's useful if you are working on the introduction and something in the middle of chapter 2, alternating as the mood takes you.
For the moment, there are a few workarounds. One is to choose a particular marker colour that you don't use for anything else and apply it at the place where you are working before the scan. Then Apple-double-click the marker in the palette after the scan and you are back to where you were.
This is also a kind of workaround for the lack of a genuinely useful feature for long documents Word has where you can cycle the cursor position through your last few edits. To get similar functionality in Mellel, mark each place that you are working on with the chosen marker. Then Apple-double-clicking cycles through those locations. It's useful if you are working on the introduction and something in the middle of chapter 2, alternating as the mood takes you.
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I've also found this annoying. I got the impression that the purpose was to take you to the newly-generated bibliography, but now that we can move the bibliography section wherever we want we're left with an incomprehensible jump to the end of the document, requiring clunky work-arounds to get back to wherever we were. Not very pretty, and I hope the Redlers fix it for next release.