Importing to Mellel. docx etc.
Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2018 10:53 am
There is a problem that has been souring my life with Mellel for many years. I had hoped that the new direct import of docx would solve it, but no.
The problem is the import of small caps and suprascript numbers. Small caps are rendered as normal letters and suprascript numbers as ordinary figures resting on the base-line. When you are importing, as I so often do, it is very time-consuming, and easy to make mistakes, when you have to go over the whole text and manually insert and correct. I understand where the problem originates, which is in the styles, exactly what is so attractive in Mellel: when you import you impose the styles you have defined for the kind of publication, but small caps and suprascripts are lost, while italics, fats and others remain, because they are defined as separate fonts. You can try to train contributors to use the special suprascript letters in Unicode to indicate 'second edition' and the like, but I have not found a similar way to deal with small caps.
Any suggestions?
The problem is the import of small caps and suprascript numbers. Small caps are rendered as normal letters and suprascript numbers as ordinary figures resting on the base-line. When you are importing, as I so often do, it is very time-consuming, and easy to make mistakes, when you have to go over the whole text and manually insert and correct. I understand where the problem originates, which is in the styles, exactly what is so attractive in Mellel: when you import you impose the styles you have defined for the kind of publication, but small caps and suprascripts are lost, while italics, fats and others remain, because they are defined as separate fonts. You can try to train contributors to use the special suprascript letters in Unicode to indicate 'second edition' and the like, but I have not found a similar way to deal with small caps.
Any suggestions?