Hello
Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2011 11:10 pm
Hello, people.
This is my first post here, just to introduce myself. As I told to Ori Redler via email, I'm the happy owner of a brand new Mellel license. I'm just delighted with this software, which I plan to give a very important usage: I want to write my doctoral thesis with it.
Anyway, I want to post my first impressions about it. I have several comments about some features I miss. Many, if not all, have been already pointed out by other people in this forum, as far as I've seen. But I reproduce it, anyway, to show my support to those requests
In general terms, the program is excellent. Every time I tried to do whatever I pleased, I found the way, sooner or later. But, as proyects grows also through critics…
Major requests
1. My very major request is related to the feature "all in small caps". Although I find it usefull, I believe that there is absolutely a "must" to introduce, also, the feature "small caps", so that the software respect the "normal" large caps. European investigators, and particulary Spanish ones, use a lot the small caps to write the surnames of the authors they mention or quote. It is very annoying to have to select all the letters of the name, except the first, and put it in small caps.
2. I found also very necessary to introduce the possibility of change the character spacing. I think this should be basic in a program like Mellel.
Minor requests
I would like also to see some other features, although I don't consider them strictly necessary. First, I would like that the shortcut [Cmd] [+] to produce the effect of enlarging the size of the text, and not the zoom view, just like in TextEdit and Pages. Second, I would like that the key [Esc] allow to exit some contextual windows, like the one of "Search and Replace". Finally, it would be nice also to have separate and different "invisible characters" for "space" and "non-breaking space". Apple Pages, for example, uses a bullet (•) for spaces and a bullet with circumflex accent (ˆ) for non-breaking spaces.
With all those features implemented, I would considerate Mellel 100% perfect, instead of only 99,9%, as I do now
PS. Sorry for the ortographic mistakes. My mother tongue is Spanish, and not English.
This is my first post here, just to introduce myself. As I told to Ori Redler via email, I'm the happy owner of a brand new Mellel license. I'm just delighted with this software, which I plan to give a very important usage: I want to write my doctoral thesis with it.
Anyway, I want to post my first impressions about it. I have several comments about some features I miss. Many, if not all, have been already pointed out by other people in this forum, as far as I've seen. But I reproduce it, anyway, to show my support to those requests
In general terms, the program is excellent. Every time I tried to do whatever I pleased, I found the way, sooner or later. But, as proyects grows also through critics…
Major requests
1. My very major request is related to the feature "all in small caps". Although I find it usefull, I believe that there is absolutely a "must" to introduce, also, the feature "small caps", so that the software respect the "normal" large caps. European investigators, and particulary Spanish ones, use a lot the small caps to write the surnames of the authors they mention or quote. It is very annoying to have to select all the letters of the name, except the first, and put it in small caps.
2. I found also very necessary to introduce the possibility of change the character spacing. I think this should be basic in a program like Mellel.
Minor requests
I would like also to see some other features, although I don't consider them strictly necessary. First, I would like that the shortcut [Cmd] [+] to produce the effect of enlarging the size of the text, and not the zoom view, just like in TextEdit and Pages. Second, I would like that the key [Esc] allow to exit some contextual windows, like the one of "Search and Replace". Finally, it would be nice also to have separate and different "invisible characters" for "space" and "non-breaking space". Apple Pages, for example, uses a bullet (•) for spaces and a bullet with circumflex accent (ˆ) for non-breaking spaces.
With all those features implemented, I would considerate Mellel 100% perfect, instead of only 99,9%, as I do now
PS. Sorry for the ortographic mistakes. My mother tongue is Spanish, and not English.