Mellel 2.9.1 Build 1 - Changelog

What's new in Mellel 2.9.1 Build 1:

September 23rd, 2011

· Fixed issues with the Auto-titles and Notes toolbar items, that caused maladjustment with their pop-up menu.
· Fixed an issue that caused numerous messages of the following type: "pageModelForOffset: couldn't find page model for offset" to appear in the console when typing and deleting text.
· Fixed issues that caused bad conversion of pre 2.9 files, with regards to different first page header/footer attributes.
· Direction of page style editor is preserved when pressing Cancel in the dialogue and not only when saving.
· Fixed a bug that caused Mellel to incorrectly default to "restart every page" note numbering mode, instead of continuos, when importing RTF files.
· Fixed a bug that caused a dead-spot when clicking around 1.9 Inches to the left of the document margin.

What's new in Mellel 2.9.0 Build 26:

August 16th, 2011

New features:
· New appearance and functionality for document window
· Customisable toolbar
· Improved appearance for ruler
· Much less wasted space for window background, simpler and smaller separator for the outline view pane.
· Outline open/close and zoom buttons moved to the bottom of the window
· Line numbering
· Details missing. Will be added at a later date.
· Trust us, it's a great feature.
· Re-Implemented page design
· Different first page for each page range
· Different margins, orientation and "facing pages" for each page range instead of being a document wide setting.
· A setting to control where the first page of a page range lies (odd or even page, or any page)
· WYSIWYG environment for editing page styles
· Draggable margins
· Ability to set margins by specifying the margin or the remaining area
· Ability to add and remove headers/footers by clicking
· Ability to drag and drop an image on the page to make it the background image
· Image inspector allowing to set the background image settings.
· Full width, WYSIWYG editor for headers and footers
· A very clear and logical way to see which type of page (first, left, right etc) you're editing
· Improved page palette
· Arranged by tabs according to page type (first, left, right, all)
· Clicking on a tab, jumps to the corresponding page in the document (if any)
· More logical layout and better terminology used in the palette
· Improved editing environment for headers and footers in the document
· Draggable border with "snap to fit", double clicking the border causes it to jump to fit.
· Accept editing button
· Remove header button
· An indicator to show overflow
· A popup for inserting common elements (page number etc.)
· Removed limitation on setting page attributes while editing.
· Better management of header/footer height adjustment
· Height is adjusted automatically to fit the text by default, when the text is lengthened or shortened, the height is adjusted accordingly.
· Setting the height explicitly (via dragging or entering a value manually) stops the automatic adjustment.
· Double clicking or drag to snap restores the automatic adjustment.
· Overflowing the text also restores the automatic height adjustment.
· Option to control the location of a section start (same page, next page, next odd page or next even page)
· Added support for opening docx, rtfd and HTML (no images)
· Added support for Kashida for Syriac

Improvements:
· Section palette: Added stepper for gutter width
· "Total number of pages" variable now shows the page number of the last page and not the total page count which may be different if the first page number is not 1
· Mellel will now avoid scrolling to show the full page "properly" after showing/hiding the track changes pane or switching display modes unless it is strictly needed
· Split OpenType "All small caps" feature into its combining elements - "Small Capitals" and "Small Capitals From Capitals"
· Much improved rtf import of footnotes and endnotes, Mellel will now respect that chracter attributes of the footnote/endnote symbol and also respect settings like restart at page/section/continues, starting number and symbol type (arabic, roman etc.)
· Fixed many issues concerning Keep with and keep together options right after a section break. Mellel will no longer ignore the keep options at the beginning of a section that starts in a middle of a page. It will, however, keep ignoring the keep-with options and not move the first paragraph for sections that start at the top of the page

Bug Fixes:
· Fixed a bug that caused floating images to be doubled after inserting a page style break in a page range containing floating images
· Tables are now flattened to plain text when pasted into a table cell
· Inline images are treated as a word when moving the cursor using option+arrow
· Fixed a bug that prevented pasting text from the document into the format editors in the "Edit title flows..." sheet
· Fixed a bug that caused all sorts of bad behaviour after editing a citation which is at or very near the end of the document text
· Fixed a bug that caused the sort dialog not to function sometimes
· Fixed an issue that caused smart selection (selection resulting from double clicking and double clicking and dragging - selecting whole words) to lose its "smartness" when dragging and dropping it and then undoing it.
· Fixed a bug that caused words preceding or following a tab character not to be indexed in the spotlight index
· When resolving a citation after scan, the basic attributes for the resolved citation are now taken from the part (final or temp) that is currently displayed and not the temp citation (which was the case till now), this prevents situations where the styling of the citation would sometimes revert to the original styling when re-scanning the document.
· When using Spaces, the Find, Preferences and Edit Style Sets window will open in the current space rather then switch to the space where they were initially opened
· Fixed a bug that caused Mellel to break the line just before a note symbol if preceded by a Chinese character (and possibly in other situations)
· When exported to RTF asterisk numbered footnotes/endnotes are now mapped to Chicago manual of style type symbols instead of regular numbers
· Fixed a bug that caused Mellel to show a redundant "Change" menu when right clicking a bookmark item in the outline pane
· Fixed a bug that caused Mellel to go to the character before last instead of the last character when pressing control+E when the paragraph is the last in the text or last in a footnote/table etc.
· Fixed a bug that caused text in Japanese Kana to be displayed garbled in the outline and other places (Lion)

Notes:
· Version 2.9 is compatible with Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard) and better
· Removed option for aqua interface

What's new in Mellel 2.8.2 Build 3:

March 23rd, 2011

· (860) Fixed a bug that caused Mellel to fail to open documents with track changes turned on under Tiger (10.4).
· Updated localisations.
· Updated the About and the Registration prompt screens.
· (858) Really fixed (that is, re-fixed) a bug that caused dates inserted by pre 2.8 versions to appear garbled in Mellel 2.8.
· (859) Fixed a bug that caused Mellel to sometimes fail to open Mellel files with the error "Missing text model dictionary" - the documents opened on second attempt successfully.
· (862) Fixed a problem that would cause Mellel to move the cursor to the next/previous table cell when pressing the arrow keys while there is a selection instead of just moving the cursor to the end/beginning of the selection is expected.
· (861) Fixed a bug that caused style editors "Save" button to become enabled without justification if the style name field got and then lost keyboard focus.

What's new in Mellel 2.8.1 Build 4:

February 23rd, 2011

Improvements:
· Support for Bookend's "Copy Notecard and citation" citation insertions.
· Updated localizations.

Bug fixes:
· Corrected strings in update prompt screen mentioning the 2 years of free upgrades, etc.
· Fixed a bug that caused dates inserted by pre 2.8 versions of Mellel to appear garbled in Mellel 2.8.
· Fixed a bug that caused Mellel to hang sometimes when choosing to reject all changes after turning off track changes in "Final" mode.
· Fixed two issues in converting older ".mell" documents. Documents are now saved as zipped package, unless stated otherwise in the preferences. Mellel will open the new file in the old location rather then the old file in the trash.
· Fixed spelling in buy mellel nib (Studend->Student).
· Fixed a bug that caused Mellel to treat inserted auto-titles as deleted (showing # as the current number) when in "Final" or "Final with markup" track changes display mode.
· Fixed a bug that caused text to wrap around images incorrectly in sections with non zero "Space above".
· Fixed a bug that caused marker shortcuts (Edit->Marker) not to function when initially opening a document without opening the menu first (Jason K. Aftosmis).
· When copying text while track changes is on, text is cleared of TC markings by accepting all changes (removing deletions and accepting insertions) and flattened (unhiding hidden insertions, if in "Original" mode).
· Fixed a bug that caused Mellel to leave an extra section break when unscanning a bibliography.
· Fixed problem that caused the style well to overlap the track changes button in some localizations.
· Fixed a bug that caused deleted text to sometimes show as deleted (with a strikethrough) when in Original mode.

What's new in Mellel 2.8.0 Build 23:

January 22nd, 2011

Improvements:
Track changes:
· Tracking insertions, deletions, replace
· Track character, paragraph, list, section and page attribute changes
· Tracking changes of multiple users
· Ability to move between change locations
· Ability to hi-light only one user's changes
· 4 modes of display allowing control on the display of insertions or deletions
· Annotation of changes via "Bubbles" or revision marks
· Control of change author name and colour via preferences
· Ability to "Pause" change tracking
· Importing and exporting tracked insertions and deletions to RTF
· Undo across save
· Preferences option to allow choosing between clearing the undo memory when saving or having a fixed amount of undo steps.
· New file format
· Default document format is now a "zipped package", a package document who is compressed entirely, allowing much better compatibly with non package aware email clients (that is, email clients whose name is not "Apple Mail") and backup/synchronisation services (mobile me, drop box etc.).
· Preferences option to allow saving in an uncompressed package format
· Sorting
· Sorting paragraphs, words, table rows, table columns or delimited text.
· Sorting alphabetically or numerically
· Secondary sort, allowing to sort text in multiple levels
· Ignore list and ignore delimiter allowing to ignore certain pre-defined words or parenthesised text when sorting
· Quick access to the last performed sort or to simple ascending/descending sort
· Improved RTF export to allow better compatibility with various windows program like WordPad, OpenOffice for windows etc. with regards to accented latin characters.

Bug Fixes:
· Fixed a bug that caused Mellel to open the wrong character or paragraph style for editing when hitting the keyboard shortcut for editing
· Fixed a bug that caused the document window to jump to the font whenever dismissing a dialog that originates from the FindSet or Find windows
· Fixed a bug that caused the vertical scroll bar to remain disabled after pasting text into an empty document when the zoom mode is "fit page"
· Fixed a bug that caused the last paragraph of a list which is the last paragraph of a document to lose its list status when deleting all of it's text

What's new in Mellel 2.7.3 Build 2:

February 16th, 2010

· Improvements - Supports additional citation options with Bookends, allowing citations to come in the format of "Carpenter (2009)".

What's new in Mellel 2.7.1 Build 3:

October 15th, 2009

Improvements:
· Rtf export of floating images, rtf export of inline images with a wrap
· Updated Latvian hyphenation dictionary
· updated "Deutsch (reformiert)" hyphenation dictionary
· When resizing images, minimum size is limited to 12x12 points, to ensure a manageable and visible image, when opening older documents, 12x12 minimum image size is enforced
· Added tool-tips to various wrap around options in "Object" palette and image editing dialogue
· Caret is now drawn in either black or white depending on which colour will be the most contrasting to the background colour
· Added Finnish localisation
· More predictable show first page footer/header check-box behaviour. When setting the Show Header or Show Footer for even or add pages, show first page header/footer check-box is automatically checked or unchecked
· Hebrew interface fixes: Fixed problems with page palette and page style editor tabs in Hebrew interface. Auto-title sheet - main format tab is now selected when opening the document. Statistics palette is symmetrized.
· Hebrew interface: lists in the palettes (Character style palette, Paragraph Style palette, marker palette, bibliography palette are now drawn RTL when in Hebrew interface

Bug fixes:
· Fixed a bug under 10.4 (Tiger) that caused Mellel to crash when scrolling the document window
· Fixed a bug that caused dragging text clippings to the document window to fail
· Fixed a problem that caused order of footnotes to get mangled sometimes
· Localisation fixes
· Updated the Kagi Registration Module. This should resolve some issues with registration under 10.4 (Tiger)
· Fixed a bug that caused Mellel to hang when rendering documents width floating images whose wrapping is "skip" under OS 10.4 (Tiger)
· Fixed a bug that caused floating images placed over table to be inserted in the middle of a table when converted to an inline image
· Fixed a bug that caused section breaks following a column break to force an unnecessary page break
· Fixed a bug that caused strange selection behaviour in documents containing citations marked as "Exclude from final document" after a bibliography scan
· Fixed a bug that caused dragging outline items to the bottom of the outline to fail
· Fixed a bug that caused inline images drawing to refresh incorrectly when the image is at the bottom of a column and adding lines above it
· Paragraph and Character style palettes are disabled when no document is opened
· Fixed an issue that caused the page palette tabs to be adjusted improperly when initially opening the program
· Fixed a bug that caused documents to open sometimes with a bad title
· Fixed a bug that caused lists ending a page to cause lists on the next page to continue the list numbering even thought a non list line/lines separate the two
· Fixed a bug that caused undo to take too long when undoing changes at the end of the document

What's new in Mellel 2.7.0 Build 26:

September 16th, 2009

New Features:
· Floating images
· Arrange submenu to set order of floating images
· Wrap around floating and inline images
· Added setup selection pop-up menu in auto-title palette
· Added "List Separately in TOC" option to auto-title flows, option is
· valid only for tag flows, on by default
· added "Reset Numbering" option (on by default) to auto-title flows
· added "Insert before" in auto-title sheet
· "Object" palette to control images frame, background colour, wrap, alpha etc
· Image transparency (Alpha)
· Page background image.

Improvements:
· Auto-titles can span more then 6 lines
· Auto-title can start anywhere on a line
· Hyphenation now works with citations
· Hyphenation now works with references
· Changed behaviour of drag and drop: when dragging between parts of the same document (from a table to the main text, from a note to the main text etc.) the drag is considered to be a "move" (source is removed from the original position) and not a copy
· Line breaks are filtered from the title text when producing TOC
· Changed behaviour for cross-reference formatting of auto-title format. If the surrounding attributes have a non base variation, the variation overrides any variation in the auto-title title (applies only if the auto-title format indicates "use surrounding")
· Improved keyboard navigation inside, into and out of tables.
· When moving the cursor via the arrow keys, the cursor will move to the cell above, below to the right or to the left when the end or start of the text is reached
· When extending the selection using shift+arrow keys the selection becomes a multiple cell selection when reaching the cell edge
· When above or below a table, the cursor will move into the table when pressing the down arrow button (if above) or the up arrow (if below), when going over the line end preceding the table the cursor will enter the first cell (if above) or the last cell (if below)
· When above or below a table and extending the selection using shift+arrow key, the whole table is selected rather then being entered
· Command+arrow key will move to the cell above, below to the right or the left and the whole text is selected
· Tabbed UI for page attributes (palette and page style editor)
· Added "Edit image" context menu item (shown only with images, of course)
· Bug fixes
· (641) Fixed a bug that caused a cross-reference target id's to be changed to " copy" when copying and pasting or dragging them around (happened when the targets had references pointing to them)
· When adding rows/columns to tables, the marker value of the last row/column cells are not copied to the new column
· Fixed a bug that caused the drag image (Image shown while dragging) of inline images to appear in the wrong size when the document zoom is not 100%
· Fixed a bug that caused the message "ERObjectMap:initWithSourceObjects:mappedObjects nil argument or non matching object counts" to appear sometimes in the console when opening the style set window
· Fixed a bug that disabled pasting of text from the document into a cross reference format
· Fixed a bug that caused option+arrow movements (move by word) to lump together adjacent words and cross references as one word
· Fixed a bug that caused Mellel to jump to the end of the document when clicking "Previous" in the find panel when the "From beginning" option is on (and also vice versa when clicking "Next" after clicking "Previous"
· Fixed a bug that caused PICT images to be copied incorrectly into the clipboard, preventing them from being pasted into some applications (most notably MathType)
· Fixed a bug that caused pasting of images copied form the finder (by selecting the file and copying) to produce a blank image
· Fixed a bug that caused Mellel to crash with documents containing illegal auto-title references inside tables
· Fixed a bug that caused Mellel to sometimes crash when opening documents containing conditional x-refs in hyphenated paragraphs
· Fixed a bug that caused cross references to targets inside note to always be considered "below" the reference even when the reference is in a page which is after the location of the note

What's new in Mellel 2.6.1 Build 2:

February 2nd, 2009

· Some nice bug fixes.

What's new in Mellel 2.6.0 Build 15:

January 20th, 2009

Automatic update:
· Check for updates can be done automatically or manually.
· When updates are available, details of the update are viewable from within the application.
· Mellel determines users eligibility to the update and informs the user about his/hers status.
· Update is automatically downloaded and installed, integrated with the payment.

QuickLook plug-in - allows QuickLook and Finder previews of Mellel documents:
· Very accurate rendering of the documents, giving a very precise preview and QuickLook (except hyphenation).
· Preferences option to limit number of pages in QuickLook previews.

· Added "Match Style Attributes" when switching style sets.
· "Smart Style Application" - when applying character styles, Mellel maps overrides to their closes matching variation in the style.
· The more traditional "Wipe all overrides" style application is also available by holding the option key while applying the style.
· "Export PDF" option.
· Re-Arranged "Statistics" palette.
· "Spread view" options: One up, Two up, Four up and Spread.
· Added the following encodings for plain text export and import: Japanese (Mac), Japanese (Windows), Japanese (Shift-JIS), Japanese (EUC), Traditional Chinese (Mac), Traditional Chinese (Windows), Simplified Chinese (Mac), Simplified Chinese (Windows), Chinese (GB18030), Korean (Mac), Korean (Windows), Korean (ISO2022-KR), Korean (EUC).
· Added support for Japanese and Chinese to RTF, this improves compatibility with word and text edit for importing and copying Japanese and Chinese texts.

Improvements:
· Enabled editing of document styles.
· Much improved mechanism for matching styles when opening documents, prevents many problems of document style duplication and inconsistencies in style handling.
· When creating a style "by example" the style editing dialogue is shown.
· Better determination of associated character styles when creating a new paragraph style.
· Style editors now allow editing the style name.
· When pasting RTF text (from Word, for example), footnotes and endnotes are not discarded.
· All auto-title elements (numbers and fixes text) are now counted in the statistics.
· Text of Notes referred to inside the selection is not counted in the selection statistics.
· Updated hyphenation dictionaries.
· New method for determining the ideal size and position for the document window (for new documents and when pressing the zoom button).
· RTF font matching table is now sorted alphabetically.
· Improved RTF export of cross references, the reference is rendered as text in the rtf, except for page numbers which keep pointing to the target (bookmark, auto-title etc).
· Improved support for vowel marks in Windows fonts.
· Selection in the the auto-title palette list is now remembered for documents even after the list is temporarily cleared when showing the auto-title edit panel.
· Check-boxes for "Search inside" options are now adjusted to better reflect the actual available options. When "Search in selection" is checked "main text" is forced to be checked and disabled (to disallow changes), footnotes and headers/footers are unchecked and disabled.
· Changed character style consolidation policy for RTF import (including rich text paste from other applications): Instead of creating a separate style for each family+face+size combination, Mellel will now create a basic style for each family+size combination and treat face changes as overrides. This gives better results for "Smart character style" application and also reduces the amount of style clutter in imported RTF documents.
· Restored the functionality of citation option double-click (in text) to switch to bibliography application and search for it (like option double click in the palette).

Bug Fixes:
· Fixed a bug that caused Mellel to reset "Auto title prev#" items in cross references to level 1 when re-opening a document.
· Fixed a bug that caused Mellel to ignore images in "Insert Menu Items" folder if their extension was not in lowercase.
· Fixed a bug that caused Mellel to crash when closing documents while editing a table cell inside a header/footer.
· Fixed a bug that caused strange characters to appear in the copied text when using the selection as plain text (Look Up in Dictionary, Use Selection For find, Search in bibliography database etc.).
· Fixed a bug that caused the character attributes of the selection to be set to the default rather then the surrounding text when opening a saved document whose saved selection is an insertion point.
· Fixed a bug that caused Mellel to add a redundant paragraph break when inserting style text from other applications (Paste, Services etc.) this caused some trouble with Typinator and other programs.
· Fixed a bug that caused tool-tips not to appear for the tab well.
· Fixed a bug that caused Mellel to crash when entering a registration code without entering a user name in the registration dialogue box.
· Fixed a bug that caused PICT images not to be exported to rtf if the image was obtained via rtf import.
· Fixed a bug that caused failure to insert auto-titles that request a title when the find window is the front window.
· Fixed a problem that caused applying character styles on table selections (multiple cells) not to remove overrides in empty cells.
· Fixed an issue that caused applying overrides like bold and italic (via command+B and command+I) not to effect empty table cells in table selections.
· Fixed a problem that caused Mellel to convert PICT images to bitmap when exporting to rtf (or copying and pasting) causing much trouble with equations pasted from MathType and EquationEditor.
· Fixed a bug that caused Mellel to hang when opening some RTF files if the RTF font mapping table contains references to fonts which are no longer installed on the system.
· Removed redundant error messages when cancelling RTF imports and old document opening.
· Removed double display of error messages upon failure to open Mellel documents.
· Fixed a problem that caused the "Reading RTF" progress panel to appear mysteriously at the background after cancelling an RTF import (by clicking "Cancel" in the font matching panel) and then trying to import an RTF again.
· Fixed a bug that caused Mellel to hang and crash when searching for find expressions containing citation, bookmark or reference elements which are set to repeat, greedy and negated.
· Mellel no longer ignores the "negated" check-box for special character elements like tabs, cr, page breaks, etc.
· Fixed a bug that caused case mapping (All caps, small caps) to produce gibberish characters sometimes.
· Cross references are now correctly exported to plain text.
· Cross references are now correctly exported to OPML.
· Fixed a bug that caused strange behaviour when inserting notes right after changing the style set in an empty document.
· Fixed a bug that caused insertion of an invisible character when extracting the selection as plain text (for "Use selection for find", creating auto-titles etc).
· Fixed a bug that caused paragraphs to adopt the previous paragraphs attributes the insertion point is at the beginning of the paragraph when saving the document.
· Font family menu is now sorted by real alphabetic order.
· Fixed a bug that caused Mellel to crash when quitting sometimes.

What's new in Mellel 2.2.7.2:

February 18th, 2008

· Improved handling of RTF files generated by Leopard's TextEdit
· Fixed a bug that caused Mellel to crash when typing control return
· "Load Find Set" window can be resized
· Fixed a bug that caused dragging to fail in the style sets, find sets and note streams window under Leopard
· Removed unneeded logging when opening cocoa rtf files

What's new in Mellel 2.2.7.1:

September 26th, 2007

· Fixed a bug that caused Mellel to crash when rendering certain documents
· Statistics palette will treat digit sequences separated by number separators (comma, period, colon etc) as single words (Jakob Vicari)
· Fixed a bug that caused Mellel not to count a paragraph in selection if the paragraph break wasn't selected (Jakob Vicari)
· Fixed a bug that caused Mellel to sometimes not count the first word of a paragraph (Jolin M Warren)
· Fixed a bug that caused Mellel to crash when pressing tab in the last cell of the table when editing a header/foooter in the page style editing dialogue (Hans Martin Kraemer)
· Fixed a bug that caused the Table palette not to adjust correctly after making changes while editing a single cell (Steve Luke)
· Fixed a bug that caused a faint grey line to appear above or below a line while typing (Lutz)
· Integrated updated localisations
· Fixed a problem that caused Mellel to sometimes fail adding rows and columns to tables while editing a cell