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by Amontillado
Sat Jan 18, 2025 4:10 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Outlining in Mellel, revisited
Replies: 3
Views: 5635

Re: Outlining in Mellel, revisited

You betcha, happy to help. My outline styles are simplistic and you won't offend me in the least if you find better ways to outline. I'd like to learn. By the way, sharing a template illustrates some of the power of Mellel's styles and why I crave them. My Outline template used a global style set. T...
by Amontillado
Fri Jan 03, 2025 3:51 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Typing in Style Names
Replies: 2
Views: 3475

Re: Typing in Style Names

That sounds like a nice convenience feature, one more way to keep the fingers on the keyboard.

This could also be done with hotkeys. Character style variations are already accessible with function keys. Accessing a style or auto-title by hotkey would be an idea, too.
by Amontillado
Sat Dec 14, 2024 7:59 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Import word into Mellel 6
Replies: 5
Views: 13911

Re: Import word into Mellel 6

Interesting. I use Mellel as the default for docx files and haven't noted any trouble. In fact, Mellel does a better job with some documents than Nisus. Do you know what format the images were in? Pretty much anything should work, but there may be variants that cause trouble. Or, linked versus embed...
by Amontillado
Mon Dec 09, 2024 1:41 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: How to add a column in a table (Mellel Mobile)
Replies: 2
Views: 3091

Re: How to add a column in a table (Mellel Mobile)

If you right click on a table, you'll get a pop-up context menu including add row/column before/after the current position. That's probably the best way. You can also use "edit table attributes" from that same pop-up menu to adjust a number of parameters, including number of rows and colum...
by Amontillado
Thu Nov 14, 2024 4:23 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Mellel and Equations
Replies: 2
Views: 8309

Re: Mellel and Equations

The new equation support is GREAT. Many thanks.
by Amontillado
Wed Nov 06, 2024 4:24 am
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Outlining in Mellel, revisited
Replies: 3
Views: 5635

Outlining in Mellel, revisited

I revisited a Mellel outlining technique today and thought I would share. My favorite outlining style is more like text-based storyboarding than a Harvard hierarchy. Notes on virtual index cards. I made an Outline style set with two levels of Auto-title. One Auto-title is called Topic, the other one...
by Amontillado
Tue Nov 05, 2024 3:37 am
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Mellel 6.0.7 Text Color / Background BUG
Replies: 4
Views: 6517

Re: Mellel 6.0.7 Text Color / Background BUG

What happens if you select a larger character sequence and clear the marker? For instance, if you have word2 marked with vermillion in "word1 word2 word3", what happens if you highlight/select "1 word2 w" and either select None for the highlight, or select any color and then sele...
by Amontillado
Wed Oct 30, 2024 2:04 pm
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: Sequencing Footnotes in iOS
Replies: 3
Views: 4113

Re: Sequencing Footnotes in iOS

I can't find where you set that in Mellel Mobile. On the Mac, when to restart the note numbering is an option in the note style. You can choose to restart every page, every section, every page range (spans between page style breaks), or continuous numbering throughout the document. It sounds like &q...
by Amontillado
Sun Oct 27, 2024 2:16 am
Forum: Mellel
Topic: macOS text replacements
Replies: 1
Views: 3448

Re: macOS text replacements

Same here - the MacOS text substitutions aren't recognized. I suspect Mellel may read the keyboard at a lower level than the characters we intend to type. It may read individual key codes, which may be required for its multi-language support. Keyboard Maestro is a nice compliment to many application...
by Amontillado
Wed Oct 16, 2024 4:10 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: how do I add page numbers?
Replies: 11
Views: 16955

Re: how do I add page numbers?

Forgot to add - I can't recreate your color problem, although I do see it's easy to click on the color well/button in the character attributes panel and select a color without the color changing. The giveaway there is clicking on the color button in the palette needs to highlight it. If the button d...
by Amontillado
Wed Oct 16, 2024 3:56 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: how do I add page numbers?
Replies: 11
Views: 16955

Re: how do I add page numbers?

Page style breaks are where one page style starts and another starts. I couldn't think of any other reason you had more than one page style. But wait - there is another possibility. If you were editing the first page's footer and if the page style in use called for a different first page in the rang...
by Amontillado
Tue Oct 15, 2024 9:25 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: how do I add page numbers?
Replies: 11
Views: 16955

Re: how do I add page numbers?

It sounds like you have a page style break or two in your document. All pages between page style breaks will have the same page style, and that should include headers, footers, and the style elements in them. I bet this isn't hard to solve. You might turn on View->Show hidden->Page style breaks. If ...
by Amontillado
Sun Sep 01, 2024 3:55 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Mellel Mobile Premium Subscription
Replies: 6
Views: 11482

Re: Mellel Mobile Premium Subscription

Mellel uses a proprietary file format. I caution anyone who would become subject to proprietary dependencies with small applications. I share your reluctance to trust proprietary storage. For my use, Mellel gets a free pass on this one. If you peek, Mellel's file format is not very proprietary. It ...
by Amontillado
Fri Aug 30, 2024 2:23 am
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Mellel Mobile Released
Replies: 15
Views: 37650

Re: Mellel Mobile Released

Mellel's subscription plan is pretty gentle. If you stop paying, you can still use the app and all your documents are available to Mellel on your Mac. Besides, word processors are magic things. During the workday, mine is a springboard for my career. At lunch it calls out fraud and makes strong legi...
by Amontillado
Fri Jul 26, 2024 3:07 am
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Join Mellel for iPad beta
Replies: 4
Views: 10874

Re: Join Mellel for iPad beta

The new Mellel ended up beside the TestFlight icon. Moving the new one to its own home screen would be another idea.