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by DavidH
Mon Jan 15, 2024 7:51 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: How to embed video in Mellel document?
Replies: 1
Views: 24936

Re: How to embed video in Mellel document?

The answer to all four questions is “no,” I believe. The target of a Mellel hyperlink must be a URL, an email address, or an external file. The hyperlink option isn’t available when the selection is an image. And Mellel has no facilities for turning text into an image.
by DavidH
Tue Oct 10, 2023 3:37 am
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Shading background (not just lines of text)
Replies: 8
Views: 32296

Re: Shading background (not just lines of text)

Amontillado's suggestion is probably best, if you can live with the background color going all the way to your margins, since Mellel doesn't currently allow you to assign a background to individual paragraphs as such. You can assign a fill color to a text box, which reaches only to the adjustable ed...
by DavidH
Fri Sep 22, 2023 5:31 am
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Question regarding page numbering...
Replies: 5
Views: 10088

Re: Question regarding page numbering...

You need to be using Page attributes to do this, not Auto-Titles. (The numbering options on Auto-Titles affect how numbers in the Auto-Titles themselves behave, not how page numbers behave on the pages where the Auto-Titles occur.) When you set up a styling for page numbers in the Page Palette (incl...
by DavidH
Fri Sep 15, 2023 10:11 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: import find sets from Mellel 5 to Mellel 5.1
Replies: 3
Views: 10339

Re: import find sets from Mellel 5 to Mellel 5.1

Good to know you're out of the woods anyway.
by DavidH
Thu Sep 14, 2023 6:09 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: import find sets from Mellel 5 to Mellel 5.1
Replies: 3
Views: 10339

Re: import find sets from Mellel 5 to Mellel 5.1

This should work, since I don’t believe there have been any changes in the format of find sets. But it’s important to put such things in the user library application support folder. Mellel ignores application support folders located in other places. To locate this, choose "Go to folder..."...
by DavidH
Sun Aug 13, 2023 2:18 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Table of Contents/Dot Leaders/Tab Leaders
Replies: 2
Views: 23439

Re: Table of Contents/Dot Leaders/Tab Leaders

You can certainly set tabs with dot leaders directly if you see fit. Double clicking on the tab well or right clicking on the ruler brings up an Add Tab Stops box that lets you set a Tab lead character.
by DavidH
Sun Aug 13, 2023 2:07 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Where is the 'Chapter" AutoTitle Hiding?
Replies: 2
Views: 8649

Re: Where is the 'Chapter" AutoTitle Hiding?

What your screen shot shows is the default Auto-title configuration provided for by Mellel’s blank templates. The illustration of the Configure Auto-titles window in the User Manual shows a document with a different custom configuration, where one top level stream has been given the identification “...
by DavidH
Mon Aug 07, 2023 3:19 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Importing old autotitle formats into Mellel 5.1
Replies: 3
Views: 25319

Re: Importing old autotitle formats into Mellel 5.1

If you made these streams and styles before the advent of Mellel 5, they may simply be in the wrong application support folder. Autotitle streams, style sets, templates and the like are stored in named subfolders of the user application support folder. When Mellel went to version 5, its official nam...
by DavidH
Sat Jul 29, 2023 5:12 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Manually moving Mellel to a new Mac
Replies: 2
Views: 8511

Re: Manually moving Mellel to a new Mac

All these things are stored in the user application support folder. (Mellel ignores the various application support folders in other places on your Mac.) It's important that this be copied when Mellel isn't running. Here are the step by step instructions Eyal gave me when I asked about this a year a...
by DavidH
Thu Jul 27, 2023 1:22 am
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: two independent columns of text
Replies: 9
Views: 21054

Re: two independent columns of text

Hi Icelander, I could be wrong, but I think you’ve misunderstood Birkswork’s needs. As I understand him, he wants to present two separate streams of text in parallel columns of a single document, with alignment controls to keep a passage and its translation, or comparable passages from two source te...
by DavidH
Tue Jun 13, 2023 12:24 am
Forum: Mellel
Topic: cancel converting text to citations
Replies: 5
Views: 12769

Re: cancel converting text to citations

So sorry, I stand corrected.
by DavidH
Thu Jun 08, 2023 3:20 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: cancel converting text to citations
Replies: 5
Views: 12769

Re: cancel converting text to citations

Other regulars in this forum have more experience with Bookends than I do, and should correct any mistakes in what follows. Here's my sense of how these things work: Although Mellel can turn delimited text entered by hand into citation objects that can be scanned and unscanned by Bookends, it can’t ...
by DavidH
Fri Jun 02, 2023 4:42 am
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Formatting Questions
Replies: 6
Views: 11014

Re: Formatting Questions

Amontillado has already covered note placement in a very thorough way. But you also asked styling the table of contents. I can’t tell from what you say how your style manual wants the “continuation lines” connecting entries with page numbers to look in your table of contents. Right now seem to be ty...
by DavidH
Thu May 11, 2023 6:47 pm
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: two independent columns of text
Replies: 9
Views: 21054

Re: two independent columns of text

A very different option, free but with a longer learning curve, is the LaTex typesetting system, originally created for mathematics but having lots of non mathematical uses. Several of the add-on “packages” that come with a basic LaTex installation and can be called in as you need them are designed ...
by DavidH
Sun May 07, 2023 3:03 am
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: two independent columns of text
Replies: 9
Views: 21054

Re: two independent columns of text

Mellel can’t handle multiple independent text streams like a story-based desktop publishing app. And it won’t continue a table cell or text box across a page break. So I’m afraid the answer to your question is still no at this point. This would be a very useful feature for people offering translatio...