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- Sat Feb 09, 2013 11:28 am
- Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
- Topic: Mellel 3.0 and Sente
- Replies: 11
- Views: 23233
Re: Mellel 3.0 and Sente
Are you on OS X 10.8.2? Could this be the same problem as discussed on this thread on the Bookends forum? My experience is the same as reported on that thread: logging out and back in again fixes the ability to use Cmd-y to shift between Bookends and Mellel, inserting a reference. Presumably the fix...
- Thu Feb 07, 2013 7:58 pm
- Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
- Topic: Character Spacing
- Replies: 5
- Views: 23022
Re: Character Spacing
True, it's not possible. Well-designed typefaces and ones with different optical sizes (e.g. these ones from Adobe) certainly make the lack less glaring, but there are times when good typographic design requires letter-spacing: most times small caps are used, for example. See Bringhurst, quoted at t...
- Fri Jan 25, 2013 6:22 pm
- Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
- Topic: Missing comments: How do you that?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4833
Re: Missing comments: How do you that?
I posted already on the other thread, but seeing your -- perfectly correct -- objection to footnotes for comments, I would advise using Mellel's coloured markers to highlight text that needs rewriting. That's what I did when writing up my PhD in Mellel. I used different colours for bits that were ju...
- Fri Jan 25, 2013 6:13 pm
- Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
- Topic: Feature Request: Comments
- Replies: 12
- Views: 16293
Re: Feature Request: Comments
Still no comments, really? How do you all work-around that? I used to use ordinary, in-line text with coloured markers for this. You could also set up an extra stream of footnotes and use those for comments. Lately, I find myself using Scrivener to write, and Word to make comments on other people's...
- Tue Jan 22, 2013 5:21 pm
- Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
- Topic: Is Mellel scriptable?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4483
Re: Is Mellel scriptable?
No, sadly not.
You might be able to automate the application of character styles using Find actions built up into a Find set. That won't work for sections, auto-titles or paragraph styles, though, because the Find and Replace function cannot impose any of those.
You might be able to automate the application of character styles using Find actions built up into a Find set. That won't work for sections, auto-titles or paragraph styles, though, because the Find and Replace function cannot impose any of those.
- Tue Jan 15, 2013 7:11 pm
- Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
- Topic: Paragraph style for lists?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8451
Re: Paragraph style for lists?
In a way, though, isn't this a separate issue from the question of whether lists should come with paragraph styles? Or at least, it's a question that comes up outside of that context. For example, I have four different paragraph styles for numbered examples -- to get right the spacing between them a...
- Mon Nov 12, 2012 8:39 am
- Forum: Mellel
- Topic: Find all by formatting
- Replies: 16
- Views: 31108
Re: Find all by formatting
Eyal: I agree that translating the styles+names would be nicer. It would be really great for Word files, but it wouldn't help with the OP's problem, because Scrivener doesn't produce named styles in its rtf output. Replace styles does enable you to do what you want as long the formatting is indeed d...
- Tue Oct 16, 2012 9:43 am
- Forum: Mellel
- Topic: Can't move the palette
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5569
Re: Can't move the palette
There is: Window>Palettes>Reset Palettes
- Thu Aug 09, 2012 9:05 am
- Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
- Topic: and on to 3.1
- Replies: 25
- Views: 73866
Re: and on to 3.1
It would be nice to be able to see the word count for a section without having to select the text. The best, I think, would be to have live word counts against items in the outline pane, but perhaps that would slow things down too much. A second-best way of doing this would be to have the word count...
- Wed Jul 25, 2012 7:32 am
- Forum: Mellel
- Topic: Referring to images – URGENT (thesis deadline)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 13473
Re: Referring to images – URGENT (thesis deadline)
No problem. Good luck finishing up the dissertation.
- Mon Jul 23, 2012 1:14 pm
- Forum: Mellel
- Topic: Referring to images – URGENT (thesis deadline)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 13473
Re: Referring to images – URGENT (thesis deadline)
Not hopeless at all. Mellel has excellent cross-referencing, and it's easy to do this (once you know how). You are using auto-titles for the figure captions, so you can insert cross-references in your text to produce 'fig x' where x is the number the auto-title system has given to the figure caption...
- Tue Jul 03, 2012 3:22 pm
- Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
- Topic: and on to 3.1
- Replies: 25
- Views: 73866
Re: and on to 3.1
Pdf table of contents.
Links in pdfs for footnotes, endnotes and bibliography references.
Also weblinks in exported pdfs.
Links in pdfs for footnotes, endnotes and bibliography references.
Also weblinks in exported pdfs.
- Tue Jul 03, 2012 3:17 pm
- Forum: Mellel
- Topic: doc and docx import
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6133
Re: doc and docx import
I suppose the problem is that Mellel is relying on the very limited doc and docx convertors supplied by Apple with the operating system. Scrivener used to too, and had similar anaemic support for doc and docx imports, but in its latest update this is much improved by the use of third-party Java conv...
- Sat Jun 30, 2012 6:08 pm
- Forum: Mellel
- Topic: Automatic Language switching
- Replies: 14
- Views: 15835
Re: Automatic Language switching
Raymond: I thought you were asking for separate help with the forum interface. If not, no problem.
Eyal: thanks for the detailed explanations. This is all very elegant and works beautifully.
Eyal: thanks for the detailed explanations. This is all very elegant and works beautifully.
- Sat Jun 30, 2012 11:32 am
- Forum: Mellel
- Topic: Automatic Language switching
- Replies: 14
- Views: 15835
Re: Automatic Language switching
Raymond wrote:
Could you be a bit more specific about the problem?And BTW the forum interface has been changed, at least to me. Any advise what to do.