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by aperriman
Thu Jan 11, 2024 10:43 am
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Text replacement apps in Mellel 6
Replies: 3
Views: 18601

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 ...
by aperriman
Thu Dec 28, 2023 9:03 am
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Text replacement apps in Mellel 6
Replies: 3
Views: 18601

Re: Text replacement apps in Mellel 6

I've just discovered that disabling the "Automatically use clipboard when inserting long text" option fixes this.
by aperriman
Wed Dec 27, 2023 9:31 am
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Text replacement apps in Mellel 6
Replies: 3
Views: 18601

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...
by aperriman
Sat Aug 20, 2022 2:25 pm
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: Feature request: Side pane as a palette?
Replies: 0
Views: 85116

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...
by aperriman
Sat Aug 29, 2020 8:08 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Text display problems
Replies: 1
Views: 5228

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...
by aperriman
Thu Jul 02, 2020 7:47 pm
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: Feature request: split view
Replies: 35
Views: 209928

Re: Feature request: split view

Yes, please. Split document view. It would make life so much easier.
by aperriman
Tue Mar 19, 2019 10:20 am
Forum: Mellel
Topic: two windows one document
Replies: 4
Views: 9687

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...
by aperriman
Wed Feb 13, 2019 12:30 pm
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: Feature request: split view
Replies: 35
Views: 209928

Re: Feature request: split view

I'll add my voice to this. It would make editing long documents so much easier.
by aperriman
Sun Dec 16, 2018 4:53 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Quick index defaults to first index
Replies: 2
Views: 4661

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.
by aperriman
Fri Dec 14, 2018 9:44 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Quick index defaults to first index
Replies: 2
Views: 4661

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...
by aperriman
Fri Nov 27, 2015 1:21 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Disable spelling for some text
Replies: 0
Views: 12871

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...
by aperriman
Tue Sep 29, 2015 2:49 pm
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: Feature request: auto-title dialogue zoom
Replies: 1
Views: 10650

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 ...
by aperriman
Mon Sep 21, 2015 7:52 am
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: Copy and paste between different paragraph styles
Replies: 9
Views: 48041

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 ...
by aperriman
Thu Sep 17, 2015 5:00 pm
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: Copy and paste between different paragraph styles
Replies: 9
Views: 48041

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.
by aperriman
Thu Sep 17, 2015 11:28 am
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: Copy and paste between different paragraph styles
Replies: 9
Views: 48041

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...