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by verma
Thu Dec 21, 2006 12:28 pm
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: Line selection by mouse click?
Replies: 15
Views: 14184

nicka wrote:Better to keep triple-click for paragraph selection, since it is a standard, and find another combination for sentences. Option-double-click?
Agreed - the exact key-combination for me is a secondary to the fact of being able to do so.
by verma
Thu Dec 21, 2006 12:02 pm
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: Line selection by mouse click?
Replies: 15
Views: 14184

Actually, selecting one whole line is perhaps not the end of it? If that line corresponds to a paragraph, then fine - it already works. But what would be really neat, is having the 3-click select a "sentence", instead of just a line.
by verma
Wed Dec 20, 2006 6:58 pm
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: Line selection by mouse click?
Replies: 15
Views: 14184

Weird. Have no other mac to test, but I only have the whole paragraph whenever I triple-click (mouse or trackpad). Never ever the line (nor even the sentence). Will try to check on another one. My mistake. I’ve tested (and used) triple clicking on single lines (headlines, browser URL bar) instead o...
by verma
Wed Dec 20, 2006 4:39 pm
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: Line selection by mouse click?
Replies: 15
Views: 14184

the triple-click doesn't work (here) - on a Pbook, being able to 3tap/click in a line to select it, would really be a leap forwards though. Works without a problem on my PowerBook G4 15" with two mice, the track-pad key, the track-pad itself (with Trackpad Gestures - clicking enabled) and a Wa...
by verma
Wed Dec 20, 2006 3:16 pm
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: Line selection by mouse click?
Replies: 15
Views: 14184

I think that Mellel should keep the current behavior as it’s standard among every (almost every) OS X application. If you click into the border and drag your mouse down, the text will be selected already. If you like to select a whole line, you could do this with a triple-click in either the line o...
by verma
Tue Dec 05, 2006 9:49 am
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: Add preference to allow export at same time as save
Replies: 10
Views: 10431

I'd suggest a menu-item specific for Export-as-RTF and Print-to-PDF with shortcut keys for both. That would fit for the most of us, and also be handy for indexing in DT or other file-viewers.
by verma
Mon Dec 04, 2006 2:08 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: DEVONthink and Mellel
Replies: 16
Views: 22287

That's why I love DEVONthink. :) I would agree, but that's also where it's first problem comes into play: if you don't preprocess your documents in DT, DT can't see them (well, it still can't see Mellel files either). Spotlight can, and with Finder Comments, smart folders and spotlight's metalangua...
by verma
Wed Nov 29, 2006 7:12 pm
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: An Academic Writer's Suite- DT, BE, and Mellel
Replies: 45
Views: 43045

I'm a fan of OmniOutliner; but I've tried and tried to use DT as well. I wouldn't mind if DT would be able to open Mellel files on the fly, directly, as it does with RTF. I found DT to be a very good programme, but it doesn't fit my academic needs, I found. Integrating information from a website? Fi...
by verma
Sun Nov 19, 2006 10:21 pm
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: Feature Request: True multi-lingual spell check.
Replies: 56
Views: 61417

Hi Mart°n, thanks for your time & reply. I was referring to the tagging-strategy à la HTML or LaTeX. Working in an WYSIWYG editor is quite different as you couldn’t see the tags at all and the word processor is the one that needs to set them correctly. One (not very likely) example: You write (o...
by verma
Sat Nov 18, 2006 9:20 am
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: Feature Request: True multi-lingual spell check.
Replies: 56
Views: 61417

I'll add a bit of mine. I understand the problems with language as character style, and perhaps also the added complexity of a level in between paragraph and character. I have no clue about how this is coded now in Mellel, but it seems to me that one could perhaps try another strategy, instead of us...
by verma
Tue Oct 31, 2006 3:15 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: List style question
Replies: 6
Views: 6621

Re: List style question

That's utterly ridiculous. This is what really annoys me about Mellel - I love the programme but I hate its limitations. I should be able to set a list style with one-click. Once I've saved the style I can do it with one click in Word. It takes three clicks in Mellel. And I have to do that every ti...
by verma
Mon Oct 30, 2006 1:59 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: List style question
Replies: 6
Views: 6621

Re: List style question

Sorry if I'm being dense, but I can't see how to save a list style as a paragraph style. In other words, I have a certain list style saved in the 'list' palette, but I want to be able to click on a paragraph style and have that list style applied. At the moment it applies the paragraph formatting b...
by verma
Mon Oct 30, 2006 12:49 pm
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: Feature Request: True multi-lingual spell check.
Replies: 56
Views: 61417

I second this request as well, but would like to enhance it. The spell-check is a must have, but I would also prefer a language-setting that incorporates both spelling and hyphenation (and typographers quotes). This would probably require taking a language setting into the Preferences pane: a) allow...
by verma
Wed Oct 25, 2006 11:54 pm
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: feature request: SORT
Replies: 6
Views: 7110

I'd like Mellel to be that flexible that it allows me to tick a box for the required element that I'd like to get "sorted". Mainly: "words", but also dates (date format), numbers and outline numbers (2.1 follows 2 and not 1.9, e.g.). You're giving me the how -- not the what. Wha...
by verma
Wed Oct 25, 2006 5:49 pm
Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
Topic: feature request: SORT
Replies: 6
Views: 7110

I'm not really clear what "sort" in a word processor would mean. Usually sorts are performed on well-defined entities [lines, records, objects, etc.] based on well-defined keys [leading character of, value of, nth element of, etc.] How would you expect Mellel to deine sort elements/keys? ...