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- Thu Jan 11, 2024 10:43 am
- Forum: Mellel
- Topic: Text replacement apps in Mellel 6
- Replies: 3
- Views: 24530
Re: Text replacement apps in Mellel 6
I'm now running 6.0.1. The problem seems to persist with aText. When "Always use clipboard to insert snippets" is enabled, inserting "thx", for example, produces "thThank you". The inserted text seems to replace only the last character of the abbreviation. Currently, I ...
- Thu Dec 28, 2023 9:03 am
- Forum: Mellel
- Topic: Text replacement apps in Mellel 6
- Replies: 3
- Views: 24530
Re: Text replacement apps in Mellel 6
I've just discovered that disabling the "Automatically use clipboard when inserting long text" option fixes this.
- Wed Dec 27, 2023 9:31 am
- Forum: Mellel
- Topic: Text replacement apps in Mellel 6
- Replies: 3
- Views: 24530
Text replacement apps in Mellel 6
I've noticed odd behaviour with text replacement apps since upgrading to Mellel 6. aText used to work fine in Mellel 5 but works erratically in 6. Two character aliases are ok, but with more than two characters only the last character is replaced by the substituted text. I've tried Typinator and tha...
- Sat Aug 20, 2022 2:25 pm
- Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
- Topic: Feature request: Side pane as a palette?
- Replies: 0
- Views: 112490
Feature request: Side pane as a palette?
Just a thought, but how about saving some screen space and making the outline/story/index side panes available as palettes? I realise it would require more scrolling, but it might be a worthwhile trade-off. Currently, I'm looking at a big chunk of grey space beneath a fairly short journal article ou...
- Sat Aug 29, 2020 8:08 pm
- Forum: Mellel
- Topic: Text display problems
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5706
Text display problems
I'm having problems with text display around the page divider both in Mellel view and Compact view. Lines of text disappear, are duplicated, or are corrupted, mostly when being selected with a magic mouse. This is Mellel 5.0.3r1 on a 2020 iMac with Catalina 10.15.6. I also see it on a 2020 MacBook P...
- Thu Jul 02, 2020 7:47 pm
- Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
- Topic: Feature request: split view
- Replies: 35
- Views: 241507
Re: Feature request: split view
Yes, please. Split document view. It would make life so much easier.
- Tue Mar 19, 2019 10:20 am
- Forum: Mellel
- Topic: two windows one document
- Replies: 4
- Views: 11703
Re: two windows one document
I think it would be a really useful facility. I use Ulysses for blog posts, and that now has a second editor. I've just finished off a lengthy book MS, and not being able to see other parts of the document easily while editing was probably the only thing that had me wishing I was doing it in Word—th...
- Wed Feb 13, 2019 12:30 pm
- Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
- Topic: Feature request: split view
- Replies: 35
- Views: 241507
Re: Feature request: split view
I'll add my voice to this. It would make editing long documents so much easier.
- Sun Dec 16, 2018 4:53 pm
- Forum: Mellel
- Topic: Quick index defaults to first index
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5331
Re: Quick index defaults to first index
Thanks. I couldn't get the shortcut to stick on my iMac but it works OK on a different machine.
- Fri Dec 14, 2018 9:44 pm
- Forum: Mellel
- Topic: Quick index defaults to first index
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5331
Quick index defaults to first index
I have two indexes for a document. Using Quick Index, I select the text I want to index in the document, I select the second of the two indexes in the dialogue box, click Add Record, then Add Record & Mark to create the index entry and mark the text. Fine. But when I go to select the next item o...
- Fri Nov 27, 2015 1:21 pm
- Forum: Mellel
- Topic: Disable spelling for some text
- Replies: 0
- Views: 13481
Disable spelling for some text
Is there a way to disable spell-checking for certain types of text in a document? I use a lot of transliterated text and it would be helpful to assign a "do not spell check" attribute to it (eg. by using a character style variation) in order to avoid unnecessary highlighting. I haven't bee...
- Tue Sep 29, 2015 2:49 pm
- Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
- Topic: Feature request: auto-title dialogue zoom
- Replies: 1
- Views: 11018
Feature request: auto-title dialogue zoom
I noticed this request on an old thread : 3) A preference to have the text in the citation dialogue box in a certain typeface and size. The text in the dialogue is so small I can barely read it (it is in the 'actual' size and font of your text at 100% zoom, regardless of the zoom level that you are ...
- Mon Sep 21, 2015 7:52 am
- Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
- Topic: Copy and paste between different paragraph styles
- Replies: 9
- Views: 57249
Re: Copy and paste between different paragraph styles
I guess this is the best that can be done given the way Mellel works currently—I was hoping I'd missed something. But I would suggest that the structural differentiation between the underlying paragraph formatting and formatting applied secondarily to text in the paragraph would be useful. It would ...
- Thu Sep 17, 2015 5:00 pm
- Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
- Topic: Copy and paste between different paragraph styles
- Replies: 9
- Views: 57249
Re: Copy and paste between different paragraph styles
Indeed, but as I said, pasting as plain text strips any character style variations, so then I have to go back and redo any italics in the pasted text.
- Thu Sep 17, 2015 11:28 am
- Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
- Topic: Copy and paste between different paragraph styles
- Replies: 9
- Views: 57249
Copy and paste between different paragraph styles
I generally have footnote text smaller than body text. If I copy and paste body text into a footnote, the size (and font) of the body text is retained. So I then have to reapply the footnote paragraph style to get the pasted text to match the size (and font) of the footnote. If I paste plain text, o...