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- Tue Mar 27, 2007 10:07 pm
- Forum: Mellel
- Topic: Avoiding Unintended Deletions
- Replies: 12
- Views: 9697
Avoiding Unintended Deletions
Twice in the same number of months, I have inadvertantly deleted most of a lengthy manuscript. I discovered this only when, while editing, I noticed that a figure number, which should have been, say, 5.3, was now 0.3. Upon looking at the outline, I found that all of the early chapters were gone. The...
- Sun Mar 11, 2007 6:35 pm
- Forum: Mellel
- Topic: Tables and Tutorial by Robin Taylor
- Replies: 0
- Views: 3868
Tables and Tutorial by Robin Taylor
Thanks much to Robin Taylor; I've been using tables for some time, but finally read the tutorials. They're very well done, and they helped.javascript:emoticon(':(') Some minor suggestions for Redlers: 1. The "add a row" command should arguably add a row above or below the row selected, rat...
- Thu Mar 08, 2007 3:57 pm
- Forum: Mellel
- Topic: Defaults for Tables
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4637
<It would be good also if the various lines in the table could have different thicknesses. If I understand correctly what you want, this is already possible. Simply select the Whole Table icon, deselect all lines in the Table Palette square, except for the one whose thickness you want to define. Th...
- Wed Mar 07, 2007 5:04 pm
- Forum: Mellel
- Topic: Defaults for Tables
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4637
- Tue Mar 06, 2007 9:06 pm
- Forum: Mellel
- Topic: Defaults for Tables
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4637
Defaults for Tables
How do I set the default style of a table? I am thinking here of reducing the width of the lilnes, and also of alignment, etc. I know that I can just apply a paragraph style to handle the latter, but surely I don't have to adjust the line thickness on each and every table.?? Ideally, the table style...
- Sat Sep 30, 2006 9:21 pm
- Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
- Topic: [Discussion] Cross referencing
- Replies: 92
- Views: 141833
Cross Indexing
I agree with the sentiment that something is much better than nothing, and that something pretty good and simple is far, far better than nothing at all. I worry that this and other sophisticated featues will affect software quality. Anything that requires Microsoft-like macros is exceedingly dangero...
- Sat Sep 30, 2006 9:00 pm
- Forum: The Nitty and the Gritty
- Topic: [Discussion] Indexing
- Replies: 28
- Views: 44381
Indexing: Caution about Markings
Indexing seems to me a perfect example of a nice-to-have. I truly would like to have it; but I doubt that I would use it very often and I could surely live without it, as I have for a long time. I have only indexed one book. As to what the functionality should be if we had it, it seems to me very im...
- Thu Sep 28, 2006 1:32 am
- Forum: Mellel
- Topic: Summary After Usage for 3 Weeks
- Replies: 45
- Views: 51300
Re: Summary After Usage for 3 Weeks
In my view, the problem is not the interface but the rather inflexibility of the way certain things work in Mellel. For example, when you enter a footnote and suddenly notice that the font is all wrong, the divider is too thick (or too thin) and that you'd rather have A, B, C and not 1, 2 3 -- ther...
- Tue Sep 26, 2006 1:56 pm
- Forum: Mellel
- Topic: Summary After Usage for 3 Weeks
- Replies: 45
- Views: 51300
Chunks
If designers lay out a good strawman, along with rationale, then it can be very efficient and productive to elicit comments and suggestions. One "session" might go a long way. Focus is good. My priority topic would be interface. A great deal could be done with reasonable effort to unify th...
- Tue Sep 26, 2006 1:30 pm
- Forum: Mellel
- Topic: DEVONthink and Mellel
- Replies: 16
- Views: 22287
Mellel and DevonThink
I am using DevonThink Pro and integration appears attractive. However, there are many things to be done and I can't reasonably assess relative prioriites without a better sense of tradeoffs.
- Sun Sep 24, 2006 4:40 pm
- Forum: Mellel
- Topic: Problems Reinstalling Spotlight Installer
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5710
Spotlight is working
couldn't it also be that the version you have installed already, is current? Yes, it probably was, but since Spotlight wasn't finding some of what I was looking for, I was hoping that the plug-in would be newer. Thus, I deleted the plug-in that was there and tried to reinstall, but was unable to do...
- Sun Sep 24, 2006 3:59 am
- Forum: Mellel
- Topic: Problems unarchiving the Mellel 2.1 reevised tutorial
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7777
- Sat Sep 23, 2006 8:05 pm
- Forum: Mellel
- Topic: Problems Reinstalling Spotlight Installer
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5710
couldn't it also be that the version you have installed already, is current? Yes, it probably was, but since Spotlight wasn't finding some of what I was looking for, I was hoping that the plug-in would be newer. Thus, I deleted the plug-in that was there and tried to reinstall, but was unable to do...
- Sat Sep 23, 2006 5:04 pm
- Forum: Mellel
- Topic: Problems Reinstalling Spotlight Installer
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5710
Problems Reinstalling Spotlight Installer
This is an FYI for others who may be trying to reinstall Mellel's Spotlight plug-in because of the earlier problems You may get a message from the installer "You cannot continue. There is nothing to install." After a web search I found that the problem causing this is often a receipt from ...
- Sat Sep 23, 2006 1:54 pm
- Forum: Mellel
- Topic: Which equation editor?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 7812
Lots of Errors in Transmitting the Equations
LaTeXiT does not work for large equations. Generally the equations from MathMagic look better than those from MathType and even from LaTex. For example, the integral sign and the position and size of limits seem better. On the other hand the bra-ket (quantum mechanics) looks slightly better in Math...