Wishlist for version 2.6

[jannuss]

43. Borders (and drop shadows?) around text blocks.

And that leads to
44. watermarks for printouts
It would be nice to be able to stamp things like "draft" or "version 3" on all pages.

Janet

[Roger]

Most urgent:
1. Indexing
21. Clickable hyperlinks in PDF output
23. Fonts in the way TextEdit

Second choice:
17. Start chapter (or page range) on odd page (what I need is page break before paragraph)
9. Better column handling: variable width columns
5. Improved language options: spellchecking, hyphenation

Third choice:
14. Improved Table implementation
3. Two-page View, side by side
15. Improved image handling

[moineau]

Most urgent:17. Start chapter (or page range) on odd page (what I need is page break before paragraph)

Most important ! A crucial feature.

And also : start footnotes from 1 with each new chapter.

Question is : is Mellel going to be as stable and light as it is now with all these changes, or it will be as slow as Word08 ???

[gug.rus]

Most urgent: indexing (1) and marginalia (10)

[DanZac]

I reach for sunglasses when I work in Mellel's full screen with the white background.

There is an entire section of the Mellel Guide that deals with this issue. It's on pages 38-40 on my copy [I'm not sure I have the most up-to-date version].

Janet

Or hit command>alt>control>8 when in full screen mode.

[Doctor Markus]

My preferences:

1. Indexing: next to xrefs, this is the most crucial for the writing of scholarly books.
2. Commenting/reviewing. Again, for academic work, especially since many of us have colleagues read, proof, and comment upon our work, this is important. Using flows work, but it is not the best solution. While Mellel outshines Word in almost every way, the commenting and correction in Word (and Pages) is quite good and pleasing to use.
3. Grammar-checking. Even if it just flagged such things as passive voice, adverbs, adjectives, noun-verb number disagreements, etc., this would be a wonderful speed improvement for my writing, at least. Yes, I can do it on my own, but it takes longer. And I don't need a grammar checker to teach me grammar, or suggest better options. Just show me the potential problems.

[Timotheus]

Most urgent: 1 (Indexing), 7 (Better Footnote Handling)
Second choice: 10 (Marginalia), 15 (Improved Image Handling)
Third choice: 3 (Two page view), 8 (Endnote handling), 19 (Better Word Integration)

[shades]

Most urgent: Indexing (1), Marginalia (10), proper handling of images and text-wrap (15)

Next most urgent: refine many of the existing features (endnotes, footnotes, etc.)

[bluesdance]

That already works for ḥ and h

oops

[chahn]

Most urgent: 1 (indexing), 27 (quicklook)
Second choice: 7/8 (footnote/endnote handling), 11 (style variations)
Third choice: 5 (including language options as part of style), 17 (starting chapter on an odd page/suppressing header at end)--I would also include with 17 having a different first page header for a section style or page style--and 19 (word integration).

[ppnkg]

Most urgent: 8, 14, 15

urgent: 7, 3, 1

and here you go: some more options for citations, e.g., Author (year)

[moineau]

One thing that wasn't mentioned for French users, which exists in Word : automatic spacinig between characters and quotes, but also "?", "!", ":" and ";".

[Lazy]

Additional Feature request:
45: Mellel integration with BibDesk;

My preferences:
Most urgent: 1, 6, 14
Second choice: 45,10,15
Third choice: 7,22,44

Lazy

[simifilm]

Additional Feature request:
45: Mellel integration with BibDesk;

As I've already written in here, this wouldn't be too hard to implement and is encouraged by both the Redlers and the developers of BibDesk, but someone has to do it ...

[DanZac]

A small request made on the forum a while back by me and supported by others was better keyboard migration to and from the outline view.

Also, what about associating fonts with other scripts? Currently we are only allowed one secondary font?

No one mentioned scripting and/or macros— any interest in this?