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by Amontillado
Mon Mar 11, 2024 3:36 am
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: Is Scrivener Relevant Now Mellel 6 is Out?
Replies: 4
Views: 283

Re: Is Scrivener Relevant Now Mellel 6 is Out?

I use the Outline in Mellel like I used to use the Draft folder in Scrivener's Binder. I can navigate, filter, and find. That's what I need. Research and notes go in either Devonthink or Curio, depending on my mood. The notes are then useful for more than one draft. I would rather write in Mellel th...
by Amontillado
Mon Jan 22, 2024 11:07 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Shading background (not just lines of text)
Replies: 8
Views: 32296

Re: Shading background (not just lines of text)

This is quick and dirty and I ended up with one macro to start the quote and a second to end it. With apologies, these are very simplistic. Also, this will set the paragraph style on the first paragraph, not all paragraphs in a quote if there is more than one paragraph. See above, quick and dirty - ...
by Amontillado
Sun Jan 21, 2024 1:54 am
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Widows, orphans, and staying true to styles
Replies: 0
Views: 1105

Widows, orphans, and staying true to styles

A question for the court, or at least food for thought. Is my solution to a formatting situation optimal? I like to let styles handle appearance. I have enough challenges writing words. I shouldn't add to the workload by trying to second guess how they will look when printed. I have a document with ...
by Amontillado
Fri Dec 15, 2023 4:16 am
Forum: Mellel
Topic: MathMagic and Mellel
Replies: 3
Views: 19692

Re: MathMagic and Mellel

I am very interested in this. My math skills are horrendous. I just dabble, but it's important (to me) dabbling.

My favorite math notebook at present is Zengobi's Curio with MathJax. It would be awesome to have equation editing integrated with Mellel, even if in an external product.
by Amontillado
Fri Dec 01, 2023 3:30 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Images vanished
Replies: 15
Views: 203951

Re: Images vanished

This is food for thought, not a solution for Mellel. Curio by Zengobi is sort of a corkboard application. It's my favorite outliner/mind map/concept map tool, and also supports MathJax. That makes Curio a nice math notebook app. One day, MathJax equations started rendering as empty boxes not unlike ...
by Amontillado
Thu Nov 30, 2023 3:28 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Images vanished
Replies: 15
Views: 203951

Re: Images vanished

There is more than one flavor of PDF. Maybe there is a conversion that would help.

Both PDF files and EPS are working here. If you could share a link to your pdf and eps files, I'd let you know if they worked here.
by Amontillado
Wed Nov 29, 2023 3:34 pm
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: Reference format in auto-title styles
Replies: 3
Views: 24795

Re: Reference format in auto-title styles

A further followup, each category in the auto-title styles (TOC, mention, reference, and outline) default to the main format in the style. I like the consistency of everything having a defined style, so that's good. The reference format is another tool to consistently format references, which is the...
by Amontillado
Wed Nov 29, 2023 3:28 pm
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: Reference format in auto-title styles
Replies: 3
Views: 24795

Re: Reference format in auto-title styles

Eureka! That's it!

Seriously, thanks Icelander. I'm working on refreshing my understanding of Mellel styles. This was driving me crazy. I was overlooking the obvious.
by Amontillado
Tue Nov 28, 2023 3:20 am
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: Reference format in auto-title styles
Replies: 3
Views: 24795

Reference format in auto-title styles

In the Auto-title styles, there is a tab for "Reference Format." I think I must be missing something in plain sight. Where is that Reference Format used? A related question - if I insert a cross reference, the pop-up window will let pick a reference format to use. This is a separate format...
by Amontillado
Sat Oct 14, 2023 2:39 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Caption formatting issues
Replies: 20
Views: 165768

Re: Caption formatting issues

I see - I read faster than I think. Or maybe more accurately, I think slower than I read. I see your point.
by Amontillado
Fri Oct 13, 2023 12:55 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Caption formatting issues
Replies: 20
Views: 165768

Re: Caption formatting issues

It would be interesting to look at anything in a template that blocked possibilities. That has already been done, and the culprit has already been identified. The answer regarding the missing parent-element is: The Figure Caption (which is a Caption Stream) needs to be INSIDE the Structure Stream. ...
by Amontillado
Fri Oct 13, 2023 12:44 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: War In Israel
Replies: 4
Views: 49446

Re: War In Israel

macsailor wrote: Fri Oct 13, 2023 4:15 am I stand with Israel and its people, always! And especially in these hard times.
Indeed, I'll second that. The news is heart rending.
by Amontillado
Tue Oct 10, 2023 11:49 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Shading background (not just lines of text)
Replies: 8
Views: 32296

Re: Shading background (not just lines of text)

If you have Keyboard Maestro, you could make it a single hotkey to create a quote. If that is any help and you would like an example, let me know. The quote sections would be easy to see with the background shading. I understand this may not be a solution for you. I don't think Mellel would have tro...
by Amontillado
Tue Oct 10, 2023 3:27 am
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Caption formatting issues
Replies: 20
Views: 165768

Re: Caption formatting issues

"Of all the Mellel templates only "Book–Technical" has the parent-element we are looking for. This means, if we want a parent-element to show up in the "Figure Caption" we are restricted to this template, unless there is some hidden way to achieve this which I haven't figure...
by Amontillado
Tue Oct 10, 2023 3:12 am
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Shading background (not just lines of text)
Replies: 8
Views: 32296

Re: Shading background (not just lines of text)

I don't know if I have an optimal solution. Here's some food for thought. A section in Mellel has a background color. The margins for a section come from the page setup. So, what's a section? Every document starts out with one page section, running from first character through last, inclusive. If yo...