After having written for the first time a paper with plenty of illustrations, I must say that I consider "Floating images and tables" to be one of the most important areas ATM. Here, Mellel is truly lacking. A LaTeX-like approach (as has already been discussed) which allows top/bottom of the page placing would be swell as well.
Apart from that multiple bibliographies and proper support for multi-lingual documents are my favorites.
Another request in relation to tables: Table cells that automatically overflow onto the next page, as well as table styles.
Also, in regards to font support and orientation: Support for Devanagari conjuncts, OpenType glyph alternates; vertical text not only for CJK (which goes RTL in vertical form), but also for Latin scripts (with choice of text rotated 90° or not), as well as permitting vertical text to flow LTR (such as Mongolian does). Once vertical text is implemented, though, I doubt the RTL vs. LTR issue will be a problem, since Mellel has superior BiDi support.
But, I would like to reiterate the two most glaring font omissions are Devanagari support and alternate glyph support.
Oh no, not again!! The "wishlist for version 2.6" offers an excellent and detailed survey of the major features the Mellel community wants to be added in future versions. Only a minimal part of these features have been implemented in version 2.6; which means that the old thread is still perfectly valid.
All we need is some information from Ori about what we can expect in the near future: which features will be implemented rather soon, and which features will have to wait. I hope he will be ready to do so.
Perhaps we can do this in an incremental way. Perhaps someone should go through the old thread and provide an ordered summary of the most-requested items from there, to kick off a new thread. Then we can add requests, without losing the already-given preferences.
DylanMuir wrote:Perhaps we can do this in an incremental way. Perhaps someone should go through the old thread and provide an ordered summary of the most-requested items from there, to kick off a new thread. Then we can add requests, without losing the already-given preferences.
A good suggestion. Any volunteers? (Please count me out. My time schedule are to tight for this kind of work.)
Peter Edwardsson
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If I can make a suggestion to the developers, there are a few sites now which provide a good way to manage feature requests and bug reports, allowing things like voting on features and so on, as well as feedback to users as to whether the feature they want was implemented (or will be or never will be)
For example there is uservoice.com and getsatisfaction.com, and probably others. I came across uservoice.com from stackoverflow (stackoverflow.com), where it seems to work pretty well. Sites like these usually offer some kind of free plan as well.
My biggest wish is better full screen editing. I would like to have full screen editing like CopyWrite or MacJournal. The current method is of little use as all it does is block out the desktop. I like Mellel and don't want to have to write somewhere else so that I can bring it to Mellel for formatting. To me, that is a waste.
This was on my wish-list for all previous versions, so I repeat it here:
Export of style names to Word or rtf documents
Import of style names from Word or rtf documents
Foot-notes set to appear at bottom of page should not appear at the end of the section, but - at the bottom of the page.
My biggest wish is better full screen editing. I would like to have full screen editing like CopyWrite or MacJournal.
Could you be more specific? What does Mellel's full-screen mode lack that you find useful in CopyWrite or MacJournal?
I haven't used those applications, but I use the full-screen mode in Scrivener, and I think the pop-up HUD at the bottom of the screen with a live word count and control over various parameters -- page width, background opacity, page position and text scale -- is a very good feature that Mellel could usefully emulate.
It's also useful that in Scrivener you have access to the menus in full screen mode: the menu bar is hidden but pops up if the mouse pointer goes to the top of the screen.