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I’ve never had this sort of trouble with Mellel myself, so I’m speculating. If iCloud is having a hard time keeping up with your edits of such a large file, the problem might go away if you did your editing on a local copy of your document that isn’t being backed up to iCloud. Another possible cause...

Different reference managers handle in-text citations differently. Are you using Bookends to insert temporary pale blue in-text citations that are then scanned? If so, is it a case where Bookends had been producing ‘p.’ and ‘pp.’ as you want in the past and suddenly stopped? Or are you trying to get...

There's a way to get much of what you want, if you're willing to use a colored underline to mark the pieces of the document you're working on. You can temporarily give outline entries a colored underline using the Markers in the Marker palette. Select the outline entry first and then select your mar...

Thanks, Eyal, for taking over on this one. And apologies to you both for any confusions in my own reply.
Best,
DavidH

I can’t check this directly and have no personal experience with typesetting Hebrew. but I have a conjecture as to what’s happening. I believe that Mellel tries to reverse the text entry direction automatically as you switch from entering Latin to Hebrew characters. It looks as if when you typed the...

It might be a good idea to write a support request about this if you haven’t already done so.

This may not clear up all your mysteries, but Page Setup gives sizes in inches regardless of Mellel's preference setting -- that particular box gets drawn by the OS rather than by Mellel. I always have my Mellel pref set to Pts but Page Setup in particular always shows me inches.

If you're using Mellel with Bookends, adding a caret to the start of the in-text code produced by Bookends gives you the author name(s) outside the parentheses and the date inside, just as it does in NisusWriter Pro. The main difference is that in Mellel, you need to find the in-text codes visually ...

Amontillado’s suggestions will work. But I believe the easiest way to get the effect you want is to set up a new List Style. Go to the Styles side of the List palette, choose an existing List Style to base your new one on (the easiest choice might be Harvard), and hit the plus sign. Enter a new Styl...

There are a lot of details concerning how footnotes and endnotes are marked and managed that you can adjust via Insert > Note > Edit Note Attributes. There's a detailed description in the Mellel Guide. You might want to change the type of reference symbol used for endnotes, for instance. Amontillado...

I have had limited experience with this feature, since my documents are usually on the short side. My bookmarks are usually temporary, to facilitate future reorganization, and I sometimes use a remark to remind myself what a bookmark is for and how I need to act on it before I delete it. Right now w...

The short answer to both questions is No. There’s no direct provision for accomplishing this sort of thing in Mellel or other word processors. For the smooth handling of documents involving multiple main texts or “stories,” each of which needs to be parceled over designated portions of multiple page...

I was wondering how the two of you would want this to work in detail. Would you want separate copies of the palettes to be permanently visible, inspector-style, alongside each open document window? Or would you want a single palette group that jumped from place to place as different windows became a...

Mellel's templates, style sets etc. are kept in the User's Application Support folder. You can locate this folder by using the Finder’s Go menu and typing ~/Library/Application Support/Mellel 5 where the ~ (tilde) at the beginning stands for the present user. First: locate this folder on your old ma...

I believe that when repeating headers were implemented, the thought was that the entire text of the original headers would be repeated on the subsequent pages. This wouldn’t make sense if the headers contained footnote references, since a given footnote and a given footnote reference should appear o...