Beefing up the iPad App
Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2020 1:33 am
Mellel used to be my primary word processor back in the day. Forgive me for staying a few years ago. The newly-released version 5 has convinced me to come back. I really like that there's also an iPad app so that I can go back and forth between my iMac and my iPad Pro and read and edit the same documents.
With the addition of trackpad support to iPadOS, my iPad Pro has become more more of a frequent tool for me, especially when I'm away from my desk. I appreciate the ability to open and edit Mellel files on the iPad, but there are a lot of features really lacking. For instance, there's no ruler at all unless I'm unclear how to make it visible. The new trackpad support in iPadOS does not seem to really be enabled for text selection. As I mentioned in a separate post, I cannot add hyperlinks in the iPad app. And like the lack of trackpad support, there's also no support for keyboard commands. On other iPad Processors such as MS Word, I can hold the command key down to see a list of possible keyboard shortcuts. No list like this shows up in Mellel, although standard formatting commands (bold, italic, underline) do work.
I'd love to see the iPad version of Mellel get some love to take it to the next level.
Here's a screenshot of the kind of keyboard commands in Word. I'd love to see Mellel keyboard equivalents added to the iPad version of Mellel.
With the addition of trackpad support to iPadOS, my iPad Pro has become more more of a frequent tool for me, especially when I'm away from my desk. I appreciate the ability to open and edit Mellel files on the iPad, but there are a lot of features really lacking. For instance, there's no ruler at all unless I'm unclear how to make it visible. The new trackpad support in iPadOS does not seem to really be enabled for text selection. As I mentioned in a separate post, I cannot add hyperlinks in the iPad app. And like the lack of trackpad support, there's also no support for keyboard commands. On other iPad Processors such as MS Word, I can hold the command key down to see a list of possible keyboard shortcuts. No list like this shows up in Mellel, although standard formatting commands (bold, italic, underline) do work.
I'd love to see the iPad version of Mellel get some love to take it to the next level.
Here's a screenshot of the kind of keyboard commands in Word. I'd love to see Mellel keyboard equivalents added to the iPad version of Mellel.