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by nicka
Tue Jun 03, 2014 9:38 am
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Scrivener Export to Mellel
Replies: 18
Views: 75609

Re: Scrivener Export to Mellel

In principle the way to do this is to use the Paragraph tab of Replace Styles. In practice that's inconvenient, verging on useless, because the dialogue is modal and you can't see which paragraphs are going to be affected while you are in it. So the task is to choose between several items that are c...
by nicka
Sun May 18, 2014 2:48 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Find all by formatting
Replies: 16
Views: 28691

Re: Find all by formatting

Find and Replace in Mellel doesn't find or replace paragraph formatting. The only way to do that is to use File>Replace Styles... . (You need to choose the paragraph tab.)
by nicka
Sat Apr 26, 2014 1:37 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Migration from Pages '09 and Endnote X7
Replies: 5
Views: 5690

Re: Migration from Pages '09 and Endnote X7

What is happening at the moment, I suspect, is that the notes are being transformed into something else: just a list at the end of the document, no longer note objects connected to the numbers in the main text. I think that Bulow is almost but not quite right about the cause and solution. The proble...
by nicka
Fri Mar 28, 2014 10:29 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: What's next for Mellel 3.4?
Replies: 48
Views: 262087

Re: What's next for Mellel 3.4?

Reply to Bulow: I was talking about changes to styles, not to text styling. To see what I mean, make a change to a style (e.g via the menu items Style>Character style>Edit "Body text" [or whatever the name of the current style is]), click 'Save' in the dialogue box, and then try undoing it...
by nicka
Tue Mar 25, 2014 6:20 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: What's next for Mellel 3.4?
Replies: 48
Views: 262087

Re: What's next for Mellel 3.4?

Undo for changes to styles, e.g. if I change the point size of Body text character style to 12, then decide it was better at 11, it should be possible to undo with the Menu command or Cmd-z.

Every so often I run into this and each time I can't believe it's never been fixed...
by nicka
Sun Mar 16, 2014 12:10 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: breaking hyperlinks
Replies: 9
Views: 6645

Re: breaking hyperlinks

I also don't have a solution for the OP, but wanted to comment on Mellel's (lack of) support for doc and docx files. It's only sometimes possible to request an rtf file instead of doc or docx. Sometimes it's socially impossible; sometimes the file is downloaded from the internet, not sent; and somet...
by nicka
Thu Feb 06, 2014 9:42 am
Forum: Mellel
Topic: What's next for Mellel 3.4?
Replies: 48
Views: 262087

Re: What's next for Mellel 3.4?

Export to pdf creating a table of contents (of the kind that shows up in the sidebar in Preview, Adobe Reader etc.).
by nicka
Sat Feb 01, 2014 6:13 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Mellel 3.3 Beta
Replies: 26
Views: 55898

Re: Mellel 3.3 Beta

For me it is working now.
by nicka
Tue Jan 07, 2014 10:08 am
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Mellel 3.3 Beta
Replies: 26
Views: 55898

Re: Mellel 3.3 Beta

Sorry, just seen this -- email notification of forum posts broken?

Case number 12495.
by nicka
Wed Jan 01, 2014 5:41 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Mellel 3.3 Beta
Replies: 26
Views: 55898

Re: Mellel 3.3 Beta

The form's still not working for me. I've sent OS details and Console log as requested by email.
by nicka
Thu Dec 26, 2013 11:14 am
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Mellel 3.3 Beta
Replies: 26
Views: 55898

Re: Mellel 3.3 Beta

Shades is right. I only got the response after I sent an email. Several attempts at reporting from inside Mellel have all failed and none has led to an email response. Also, I have no general internet problems, as I said in the bug report, so the problem with Mellel's system is not that. Here's the ...
by nicka
Tue Dec 24, 2013 7:15 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Mellel 3.3 Beta
Replies: 26
Views: 55898

Re: Mellel 3.3 Beta

Same here. I mailed the old beta notification address: beta AT redlers DOT com and got an automated reply that said my bug report had been registered.

Eyal, Ori: Is this the best procedure until the beta bug report bug is fixed?
by nicka
Mon Nov 11, 2013 11:02 am
Forum: Mellel
Topic: A few ease of use/feature requests
Replies: 15
Views: 16910

Re: A few ease of use/feature requests

Title-flow elements should be in a "well" like the tabs are, so the user can just drag and drop them where they desire.
Yes this would be great. Long ago one of the Redlers said that they would look into implementing this, I think...
by nicka
Thu Nov 07, 2013 5:02 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: A few ease of use/feature requests
Replies: 15
Views: 16910

Re: A few ease of use/feature requests

Mellel uses its own text engine, not the one Apple provides in OS X. So non-contiguous selection would have to be coded; Mellel doesn't get it for free.
by nicka
Mon Nov 04, 2013 9:42 pm
Forum: Mellel
Topic: Find all by formatting
Replies: 16
Views: 28691

Re: Find all by formatting

Sorry, yes. The note was really for Eyal, who is (was?) monitoring this thread. I agree about trusting Mellel more than the alternatives for long documents – actually, even for short ones. But these days I do all my drafting in Scrivener, so I would really like some improvement in dealing with impor...