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Ori Redler wrote:

verma more or less summed it up. With X-refs we've tried, more or less, to create a state-of-the-art feature (i.e., FrameMaker and then some). You'll be able to judge for yourself soon if we've succeeded. We plan to further polish this, and add QuickLook, with 2.5.5 which will come soon and will be a bug-fix-release-come-intermediate-release.

Thanks for the update, Ori. I don't suppose a comments feature will be out with 2.5.5 though?

If you just need comments (and no collaboration with Word-users): just add an auto-title-flow "comments" and be happy.

Thanks for the answers to my questions, very helpful to know. I am VERY HAPPY to hear that quicklook is coming, It is going to be so great to have that.

Reiner wrote:If you just need comments (and no collaboration with Word-users): just add an auto-title-flow "comments" and be happy.

Not to sound sarcastic, but to me the point of comments is precisely to collaborate with others (which, of course, means Word users). I do use note streams to make annotations or notes as well. But it's obviously not the same thing. FWIW, Pages' comments feature plays quite nicely with Word.

daiyi wrote:

Ori Redler wrote:

verma more or less summed it up. With X-refs we've tried, more or less, to create a state-of-the-art feature (i.e., FrameMaker and then some). You'll be able to judge for yourself soon if we've succeeded. We plan to further polish this, and add QuickLook, with 2.5.5 which will come soon and will be a bug-fix-release-come-intermediate-release.

Thanks for the update, Ori. I don't suppose a comments feature will be out with 2.5.5 though?

No, I don't suppose so either. We have something much bigger and much more important cooking for 2.6, which is now on the drawing table.

Ori Redler wrote:
No, I don't suppose so either. We have something much bigger and much more important cooking for 2.6, which is now on the drawing table.

Wow, is this the FrameMaker of the future?

We can certainly hope so!!

Ori Redler wrote:

daiyi wrote:

Ori Redler wrote:

verma more or less summed it up. With X-refs we've tried, more or less, to create a state-of-the-art feature (i.e., FrameMaker and then some). You'll be able to judge for yourself soon if we've succeeded. We plan to further polish this, and add QuickLook, with 2.5.5 which will come soon and will be a bug-fix-release-come-intermediate-release.

Thanks for the update, Ori. I don't suppose a comments feature will be out with 2.5.5 though?

No, I don't suppose so either. We have something much bigger and much more important cooking for 2.6, which is now on the drawing table.

Any hints, Ori? This is all too tempting!

I'm just excited about the coming cross-refs.

stephenandamanda wrote:I'm just excited about the coming cross-refs.

I typically don’t correct other poster’s comments, but as you post as Stephen and Amanda, your post should write: we’re just excited…

i have zero use for cross references but i definitely like the new version. editing title flow formats is easier now.

Ori Redler wrote:We have something much bigger and much more important cooking for 2.6, which is now on the drawing table.

We need some hints here Ori !

With the greatest respect, for those of us who have to maintain communication with the Real World (a.k.a. Poor Fools Who Know No Better) (a.k.a. Publishers), *nothing* could be more important than compatibility with Word's comment and track changes features. It's the main reason I have other WPs on my machine (apart from Scrivener and Ulysses, which earn their keep in the early stages of a project).

mbywater wrote:With the greatest respect, for those of us who have to maintain communication with the Real World (a.k.a. Poor Fools Who Know No Better) (a.k.a. Publishers), *nothing* could be more important than compatibility with Word's comment and track changes features. It's the main reason I have other WPs on my machine....

Just to second this comment. But it's not just publishers -- In the academic world I live in, pretty much everyone I work with uses track changes. There's two problems. FIrst from within Mellel, you can't see what the changes are. Second, it seems that Mellel doesn't always handle .doc files with lots of tracked changes correctly. I've been generally forced to go to word for this, although Pages seems to now do a good job. I would love to start using Mellel again, though!