Let the Redlers have their well deserved holiday after 2.5. When they return, it would be nice, if they could figure out a ranking of what we think most urgent for the next version (v 2.6).
As it is not possible to have more then ten options in a forum poll and I identified 31 wishes in the forum, I did not create a poll. Instead, I suggest you answer by a post in this thread, entering the item numbers of the feature requests below in three catagories in the following way:
- 1. Most urgent:
2. Second choice:
3. Third choice:
Your posts will give the Redlers a better understanding, what their users‘ most needed priorities are.
And here is the feature/improvement list:
- 1. Indexing (The most tricky feature of them all to implement, I believe; you may want to re-read: http://forum.redlers.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=665)
2. Split window or open two windows to display two areas of the same document at the same time, especially helpful now with X-referencing, when you can see reference and target without scrolling
3. Two-page View, side by side
4. Undo after saving
5. Improved language options: spellchecking, hyphenation and quotes as part of a character style, style variation (my preference) or language style (see also http://forum.redlers.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=790)
6. Landscape and portrait oriented pages (or more generally different page set-ups) in the same Document
7. Better footnote handling (e.g. multi-column footnotes under a one-column text; footnotes either at the bottom of column or bottom of page in multi-column pages; footnotes at end of page and not at end of section. (Matthias wrote: Right now, when combining several columns text with one column text, footnotes are not put at the end of the page but at the end of the respective section. This can result in footnotes being put in the middle of a page)
8. Better endnote handling: e.g. endnotes not necessarily at very end of text, but at specified place (like it was achieved with References, so that one can place e.g. References, TOCs, etc. after the end notes. As is, you cannot put auto-titles after the end notes); Option for endnotes at the end of chapters, sections or page ranges
9. Better column handling: variable width columns, vertical alignment of paragraph beginnings in adjacent columns; text flow in columns across page borders (important e.g. for side by side multilingual texts; see also http://forum.redlers.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1544)
10. Column for side notes (marginalia), with notes anchored to text in an adjacent column
11. Improved style variations (not a fixed number of 8 style variations but a variable number of style variations within each character style)
12. OpenType (large and) small caps, as well as sub- and superscripts (This could, in my opinion, be easily handled with style variations and appropriate Opentype fonts; but then we do not have enough style variations, see item 11 above)
13. Fuller implementation of Opentype features
14. Improved Table implementation (see e.g. herouth and Mart°n on: http://forum.redlers.com/viewtopic.php?t=712 and Reiner at: http://forum.redlers.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=773): Table styles; an option to save and insert preformatted tables, vertical text orientation in table cells; navigation with arrow keys (e.g. „ctrl-arrow“ takes you to an adjacent cell, which will allow you to go also to the cells above and below), better control of width and height; an "equalize row heigth" button in the palette; better „keep with …“ options; option to or not to split cells over page borders; use of auto-titles in tables; alternating backgrounds in rows)
15. Improved image handling (text float around images, TeX-like anchoring of images to text (see DylanMuir: http://forum.redlers.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1020)
16. Line numbering; paragraph numbering
17. Start chapter (or page range) on odd page and an option to suppress header/footer on an empty last even page of chapter or range
18. Invisible characters: different Symbols for space and direction-breaking space, so that you can see if you have really inserted a direction breaking space before choosing a different-direction script (for explanantion see: http://forum.redlers.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1629)
19. Improved WORD integration: Conversion to and from MS WORD (.rtf/.doc/.docx), import/export of style definitions and names
20. Improved DevonTHINK integration
21. Clickable hyperlinks in PDF output (which would probably mean goodbye to using Apple‘s pdf export in the print dialog and write Mellel‘s own pdf export)
22. Improvement to numbered lists, namely, the ability to put list numbers of different levels on the same line
23. Fonts in the way TextEdit presents them, and as they are in FontBook (see raymond at: http://forum.redlers.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=896)
24. Alternatively: Font menu with font names written in their actual font and not with system font
25. True live-updating of WYSIWYG references when using Bookends.
26. True live-updating of tables of content
27. Quicklook integration
28. Grammar-checking options
29. Resizable dialogue boxes (especially the Find Set one)
30. Paragraph style option: Suppress paragraph spacing at bottom of page (see: http://forum.redlers.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=993)
31. Text alignment option: center justified (for explanation see: http://forum.redlers.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1630)
Regards, Hans-Reinhard