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I fear that I don’t have that much to contribute here, other than that I also use this setup. I usually just keep them open side by side and switch back and forth. (I use OO for organization and related notes and ideas. The actual writing is then done pretty much exclusively in Mellel.) But I too wo...

I did so for a three hundred pages long book with about 150 illustrations (but no tables), lots of footnotes etc. (And for many articles and book chapters for anthologies.) Went fine, and I always kept the Mellel version as my main version (to update mistakes, produce PDFs to send out to colleagues ...

Sounds like some kind of "keep with next" option is enabled in the paragraph style that you use for block quotes?

Excellent!

This is not fixed. Also, this is not really bug but rather (possibly misguided) feature. We will discuss this for changing in 3.3 The main worry here is that if you don't see anything, then you can't select or see it when you're editing the header/footer. I understand – using some kind of "inv...

Ah, good to know! Sems I wrongly took the shortcomings of the iOS iWork suite to be true for books too...

However, none of these fonts is available as native on an iPad, so if you're looking to produce an ebook (for example for iBooks) then you'd need to use one of the default fonts.

Is the empty mention bug really not fixed yet? The issue appears if you have a mention set up in your header, but there is no content for the mention to refer to. The mention then displays <#???#> instead of nothing or hidden text. This scenario is quite common if you have for example a mention on t...

Excellent – thanks for the quick and helpful reply. Now this only has to be fixed in the user guide…

Where can I set default document variables? In earlier versions that was possible in Mellel’s preferences, and the user guide still talks about preferences as being the place where the default can be set. But if I look at the Document Setup preference pane, I can only change the title of document va...

In a file I was working on today, there is a section with two columns. When I view that section in Mellel view, everything looks fine. When I switch to compact view, that section no longer displays properly. The header and footer text and the leftmost ten characters of 11pt Times in the left column...

GediWorrier wrote:So, those were my big negatives, and I really do think that the Redlers need to give some of these priority.

Thanks for writing this up – I do fully agree with your assessment. Looking forward to more feedback!

I don’t know of such a possibility – but then I have not really tried to use Automator, so it might be possible that you can generate an Automator action that does this…

I also want to support this feature request - shouldn’t be that hard to implement but can make work with citations much easier in Mellel.

OmarKN wrote:but c/f paragraph style,
is this in Styles > Paragraph Styles > Body?

This will have to be set in all of the style(s) that you use. You can get easier access to the different styles by hitting command-shift-A on the keyboard or selecting Styles > Edit style sets…