Mellel Changelog

What's new in Mellel 6.0.3

Mar 1, 2024

Bug Fixes:
Fixed an issue that caused the display to sometimes not refresh properly showing blank pages or the text of other pages when inserting page breaks and performing other changes.
Fixed a problem that caused Mellel to crash sometimes when redrawing list based palettes.
Fixed an issue that caused Mellel to hang sometimess when pasting and insrting text.
Fixed an issue that caused marker selector in the outline and story pane to draw incorrectly when opening an item.
Fixed an issue that caused the screen not to update when changing "show hidden" options.
Fixed an issue with keyboard/language synchronisation and split view whereby the keyboard would be always be adjusted according to the bottom/right view and not according to the currently active view.

New in Mellel 6.0.2 (Feb 13, 2024)

New in Mellel 6.0.1 (Jan 4, 2024)

New in Mellel 6.0.0 (Dec 14, 2023)

New Features:
Dark Mode: Mellel's user interface and (optionally) document content will adapt to the system Dark Appearance when selected.
Appearance automatically adjusted according to system setting.
Always use light appearance for document content setting in Mellel Settings.
Split View: Split the document view into two aspects.
Toggle Split View button at the bottom bar.
View > Split View item in View menu.
View > Switch to Next Aspect command in View menu.
Export Outline: Export document's outline into a new Mellel file.
File > Export > Outline menu item.
Option to export remarks.
Option to immediately save exported document.
Find and Replace Improvements: New elements for replace expressions:
Insert Auto-title
Insert Note
Insert Citation
Insert Hyperlink
Index Improvements: Several improvements to indexing:
Control over locators of index symbols inside notes.
Export Index Records index cogwheel menu command.
Import Index Records index cogwheel menu command.
Insert > Index > Insert Index Mark menu command.
Revised Index Record Context Menu
Move Index Records
Auto-title Batch Insert: Rapidly insert multiple Auto-titles based on character style.
Batch Insert button on Auto-title palette.
Miscellaneous Changes:
You can now expand and collapse outline items using the right and left arrow keys.
Outline navigation improvement: when clicking an outline item corresponding to a structure Auto-title, the document will scroll so that the Auto-title is positioned at the top of the document view and not at the center.
Outline improvement: the outline now reflects the current location in the document correctly in filtered mode and the outline selection is updated when expanding/collapsing outline items.
You can now tab between tables and fields in the Edit Reference dialog box.
Revised About dialog.
Revised icons for toolbar, palettes and more.
Edit > Table submenu.
Unified menu labels and added dividers for numbering types (Arabic (1, 2, 3) Roman (i, ii ,iii) etc.) in all numbering type popup menus (Page number type, note symbol type etc)
Hebrew (No Gershayim) numbering type.
Mellel Preferences was renamed to Mellel Settings.
Migration improvement: more robust detection of an installed old application.
Trial window is now showing only at startup and every 24 hours.
Revised and updated User Manual.
Bug Fixes:
Fixed a bug that caused only one Index record to be deleted when selecting multiple index records and deleting.
Fixed an issue that caused the "continue" button in the trial dialog not to function properly.
Fixed a bug that caused the format menu of the insert date sheet to be cutoff sometime.
Fixed an issue that caused the style menus to display the wrong style or no style at all after applying a style set or doing "replace styles".
Different drawing for "unfocused" state for selection of table as object, inline images and text boxes, and floating images and text boxes.
Fixed capitalization in menu items and dialogs all around the application.
Fixed an issue that caused dotted circle (u+25CC) not to combine with right-to-left non-spacing marks (i.e. nikkud and taamim).
Fixed an issue that caused incorrect line breaking behavior with dashes (including minus hyphen) followed by a quotation mark.
Fixed typo in reference format name (See Chaper > See Chapter)
Fixes many issues that caused insert menu items (autotitle, citation, date etc) to be enabled when they shouldn't be while editing non document fields (edit autotitle popover, outline items etc.)
Fixed an issue that caused typed text to revert to the surrounding attributes when inserting diacritics/accented characters.
Fixed a problem that caused track changes delete and insert marking not to be preserved for bookmarks, dates, images, text boxes and notes when reloading a document.
Properly showing image and text box in track changes bubble.
Fixes an issue that caused deleted note references not to look deleted in track changes.
Find & Replace toolbar button now bears the correct tooltip.
Fixes an issue that caused strange and unexpected results after applying list attributes to a paragraph following an auto-title.
Fixed an issue that caused elements seperated by a tab character to appear unified in epub export.
Fixed a bug that caused Mellel to crash when filting an outline containing bookmarks under certain circonstances.
Proper indenting of multiple bookmarks in the outline, when filtered.
Fixed an issue that caused automatic update to fail sometimes on Apple Silicon macs.
Fixed an issue that caused QuickLook to fail sometimes on Apple Silicon macs.

New in Mellel 5.1.6 (Sep 28, 2023)

New in Mellel 5.1.5 (Jun 19, 2023)

New in Mellel 5.1.4 (Mar 2, 2023)

New in Mellel 5.1.3 (Aug 24, 2022)

New in Mellel 5.1.2 (May 27, 2022)

New in Mellel 5.1.1 (Mar 25, 2022)

Common:
DOCX export: made some changes to the way styles are classified to improve compatibility with MS Word’s built-in styles.
RTF Export: fixed an issue that caused spaces following a Unicode character to be omitted when processing RTF exported document from Mellel in Pandoc and possibly others.
Mac Specific:
Fixed an issue that caused some user interface elements to be positioned incorrectly in macOS 10.10 and earlier.
Fixed an issue that disabled opening auto-title formats for editing under macOS 10.10 and earlier.
Fixed an issue that caused Mellel to crash sometimes when filtering the outline display.
Fixed an issue that caused Mellel to crash when copying/pasting between mac and iOS.
Some fixes to layout and text in the “Buy Mellel” screens.
Fixed an issue that caused Mellel to crash in some rare circumstances when closing a document window.
Outline selection is now refreshed to show current document location when expanding or collapsing outline items.
Fixed an issue that caused outline items to be added at the wrong place when working in outline mode.
Fixed an issue that caused incorrect display of styles in the Styles->Character Style submenu.
Fixed some spelling errors in the manual.
Fixed some issues with the TOC format for the Book – Technical template.
Fixed an issue that caused Mellel to crash when editing toc and mention formats under certain circumstances.
Fixed an issue that caused Mellel to create malformed files when converting older .mell files and a failure to open these files.
Fixed an issue that caused UI elements in “Configure Auto-titles” window to overrun each other when running Mellel in German.
Fixed an issue that caused Mellel to hang or take very long to recover after modifying styles in very long and complex documents.
Fixed an issue that caused Mellel not to remove redundant overrides to character and paragraph styles in tables after making changes to a style.
Fixes an issue that caused header/footer manual height changes to be discarded if the header/footer text was also changed during the same header/footer editing session.

New in Mellel 5.1.0 (Feb 15, 2022)

Multiple Auto-title Hierarchy Chains:
Unlimited number of Auto-title streams (formerly known as flows).
Unlimited sibling streams, any structure stream can have one or more child streams.
Streams identified using a string to flexibly map Auto-titles.
Auto-title Styles:
Store the entire Auto-title configuration in a Style Set.
Apply, Add and Save changes to Auto-title styles from the Auto-title “Styles” palette.
Multiple Auto-title styles in a document allow maintaining one template for multiple document types or accommodate different appearance for Auto-titles in different stages of work (draft, review, final).
Redesigned Auto-titles User Interface:
Tabbed window design for the configuration window, grouping formats of a specific type (Main, Table of Contents, Mention, etc.) from all streams in one tab.
Wide window design for the configuration window allowing previewing and configuring formats in a more realistic way.
Facility to detect and correct invalid formats.
Icons and indentation for stream names in all menus and popup menus.
Stream popup menu in the Auto-title popover.
Stream popup menu in the Auto-title editing pane in the outline.
New appearance and labels for “tokens” in Auto-title format editor.
Showing stream names in “Parent Level Number” popup menu.
“Clear Formatting” button in Auto-title format editor.
Auto-title Enhancements:
Manipulations of the document using the outline such as promoting and demoting Auto-titles or drag-and-drop of document parts are now working much more consistently, preserving ranging attributes (section and page ranges), paragraph attributes and the prefix character.
Manipulations of an individual Auto-title are now handling paragraph attributes and the prefix character correctly and consistently.
Insertion of an Auto-title right before an existing one handles and preserves the existing Auto-title’s prefix character.
“Use Surrounding” is now respected for mentions.
Editing of mention format for Caption Streams is now disabled.
Variations applied in the mention and reference Auto-title formats can now override the variation set for the title in the main format.
Outline Auto-title titles are always shown in a pseudo “final” track changes mode, regardless of the actual display mode in the document.
You can now add, delete, edit and save changes to paragraph and character styles from within an Auto-title format editor.
Leading and trailing whitespace is now trimmed from selected text when creating an Auto-title out of it.
List attributes are removed from the paragraph when inserting an Auto-title.
Line breaks in Auto-titles are converted to a space instead of being stripped when displayed in the outline.
New and Updated Factory Templates:
New Blank Templates:
Replaced “default” templates with four “Blank” templates with two page sizes (A4 and US Letter) and two style sets (Classic and Modern).
Unified naming of Auto-title streams and paragraph and character styles.
Three varieties of Body paragraph style, normal, double-spaced and Auto-indent (for use with the Auto-indent Auto-title style).
Three Auto-title styles: Unnumbered, Numbered and Auto-indent. All three styles use the same stream identifications so you can switch around between them without converting Auto-titles.
Five note styles, three for footnotes (Arabic, Asterisk, Roman) and two for endnotes (Arabic, Roman).
Default Note styles using same font size as body text and with a more conventional superscript note number.
Other Changes:
New template – “Book – Technical” demonstrating a more complex Auto-title structure, table of contents and an index.
New template – “Legal” demonstrating a pseudo legal document using Auto-indent.
Renamed “Newsletter” category to “Example”.
All templates were updated to the new standard for Auto-titles and a more consistent style naming scheme.
Changes to the User Manual:
Rewritten Auto-title section and relevant screen descriptions.
Revised and expanded table of contents section.
Rewritten Auto-Indent section and devoted a separate section to it.
Added a section about recovering lost documents.
Added full Index Attributes screen description.
Rewritten the Import and Export section.
Pagination continuous throughout for ease of printing portions of the manual.
Revised and updated many screenshots.
Updated details about trial limitations and improved explanation of trial.
Slightly less cryptic explanation for “Save document as packages” (long story short – don’t use it unless you need it).
Fixed some formatting mistakes.
Fixed some broken cross references.
Miscellaneous Enhancements:
Proper capitalization of menu items, window titles, buttons and captions throughout the application.
New appearance and labels for “tokens” in cross-reference and index format editors.
Contents of Auto-titles, Citations and Hyperlinks are always shown in “Show Changes” display mode when editing them via the popover, outline pane or editing window.
Selection is no longer reset when applying a style set.
Selection is no longer reset when applying note attribute changes.
Preferences window is now wider and accommodates localizations better.
Insert > Special Characters items are now showing a little preview image to illustrate the inserted character.
Typing performance improvements with long document containing many Auto-titles with cross references.
Added ‘an’ to the list of default ignored words in sort.
Next Paragraph Style is now applied when inserting any type of paragraph break (section break, page break, etc.) and not just Return.
Bug Fixes:
Allowing to add a detached (diamond) note style when pressing the add button (as is done with other style types).
Fixed a few issues of ranging attributes (paragraph, section, page) not applied correctly to inserted text when inserting text to replace a selection.
Fixed potential crashes stemming from the selection state being stored in a document.
Fixed all sorts of issues that caused the text following an Auto-title to be affected by the character style variation applied on the title element in the Auto-title format.
Track changes is applied properly when deleting an Auto-title via the Edit Auto-title popover delete button.
Fixed an issue that caused new styles added to a style set when editing it in the Edit Style Set window to appear as detached styles (diamond) if any internal references to them are made during that session.
Fixed a bug that prevented editing table formulas in the table style editor.
Table style editor and page style editor header/footer editing field now showing table formula and other inline highlight.
Fixed several issues with inserting and manipulating Auto-titles inside tables in the page style editor header/footer editing field.
Fixed several issues with undoing and redoing changes in the page style editor header/footer editing field.
Fixed an issue that could sometimes cause a redundant override to be applied (and therefore adding a ‘+’ to the style name) when finishing editing a header/footer in the document window.
Fixed an issue that prevented accepting or rejecting tracked changes that occur in certain locations like the end of a table cell, note, or document.
Fixed many issues with cutoff labels in some localizations.
Fixed a problem that sometimes caused list numbering to be incorrect when exporting to docx.
Fixed an issue that prevented accepting/rejecting tracked changes inside inlines (Auto-titles, Citations, etc.) via the menu item (and therefore via the keyboard shortcut).
Fixed an issue that caused faulty iteration of tracked changes (using next/previous change buttons and menu items) with changes inside inlines spanning over a page break.
Fixed an issue that caused Mellel to hang when turning off track changes with documents containing text boxes that contain hyperlinks.
Fixed an issue that caused Mellel not to update citations and bibliography when changing a citation text or options options while live bibliography is on.
Fixed an issue that caused the display of the bibliogrpahy not to be updated after removing a citation when the citation and bibliography are on the same page.
Fixed an issue that caused the descent (low part of letter) to be slightly clipped when typing under certain circumstances.
Fixed an issue that caused the selection highlight to leave a faint line on screen at the bottom or top of it in some cases.

New in Mellel 5.0.9 (Jan 10, 2022)

New in Mellel 5.0.8 (Sep 8, 2021)

New in Mellel 5.0.7 (Sep 8, 2021)

Common (Mac & iPad):
(Docx import) Fixed issues that caused Mellel to fail to import some unusually formatted docx documents exported by applications like iA writer and perhaps others.
(Docx import) Fixed an issue that caused Mellel to fail to import docx documents containing tables with sparse grids.
(Docx import) Properly reading reverse tab in some docx documents.
(Docx import) Fixed an issue that caused Mellel to fail to open docx documents produced by “Marked 2”.
Fixed a few memory leaks.
Mac Specific:
Fixed an issue that caused crashes and strange behavior when editing auto-titles containing line breaks using the popover in Big Sur and when editing find expressions containing line breaks in the “normal” find field on Big Sur.
Fixed an issue that caused Mellel to crash in when editing an auto-title in the outline while still editing the auto-title in text in specific circumstances.
Fixed an issue that caused bad display and behavior when using “Speak Selection” on Big Sur.
Fixed an issue that caused Reject/Accept Selected Changes menu items to be disabled when selection is in a table cell.
iPad Specific:
Added a “document name” screen when creating a new document.
Added a “cancel” button in document rename screen.
Major overhaul of drag & drop. Local (within document) drags are considered “move”, more accurate drop location detection, whole-word drags are treated “smartly” by adding spaces before and after if needed and enabled dragging from documents containing floating images.
Fixed an issue that caused Mellel to get stuck on a blank screen when restoring state to an open document after a restart or some other even that would cause the app to terminate.
Better handling of failure when opening documents (showing an error message, closing the document if not opened).
Better handling of failure to close documents, including closing documents that were not opened successfully.
Fixed an issue that caused Mellel to fail to update a document preview immediately after closing it.
Improved handling of documents dragged on Mellel windows, opening the document in the dragged upon window if possible and not always opening a new window.
Fixed an issue that caused table resize handles not to be drawn and erased properly when switching in and out of tables.
Fixed an issue that caused renaming dismiss transition to zoom icon out to the wrong item in the document browser.
Scrolling (behind the scenes) to revel the document before doing the close transition to better orient the user when closing the document.
Showing insertion point immediately after opening a document to allow typing right away.
Much improved better performance and memory consumption with iCloud on.
Better appearance of document during opening when document takes a long time to open.

New in Mellel 5.0.6 (Sep 8, 2021)

New in Mellel 5.0.5 (Sep 8, 2021)

New in Mellel 5.0.4 (Sep 8, 2021)

New in Mellel 5.0.3 (Sep 8, 2021)

New in Mellel 5.0.2 (Sep 8, 2021)

Word Format (DOCX) import improvements:
Fixed an issue that caused left to right paragraphs to be assigned with right to left direction with documents imported from Pages.
Check that we’re actually getting a chracter style (and not a paragraph style) for a character style reference (w:rStyle). Fixes an issue that prevented Mellel from opening slightly malformed docx files.
Fixed an issue that caused Mellel to fail to open docx files with certain combinations of horizontally and vertically merged cells together.
Fixed an issue that caused bad import of fields inside footnotes.
Lots of fixes and tweaks to the handling of citations and bibliography when re-importing.
Fixed an issue that caused page number alignment in header/footer not to be respected sometimes.
Fixed an issue that caused Mellel documents containing paragraphs and paragraphs styles with more then 64 tab stops to fail to open by MSWord.
Fixed an issue that caused redundant paragraph breaks after page breaks.
Word Format (DOCX) export improvements:
Performance improvements when exporting long complex documents. More compressed and economical DOCX generation to allow target word-processor to better handle the exported document.
Fixed an issue that caused tab suffix for note symbols to be converted to space.
Fixed an issue that caused exported footnotes and endnotes to be unrecognized when re-importing to Mellel or when opening in Pages.
Fixed an issue that caused some documents in landscape orientation to be exported as portrait.
Fixed an issue that caused an extra paragraph break to be inserted after column and page breaks.
Other:
Fixed a bug that caused Mellel to hang when inserting footnotes under some very rare conditions.
Fixed an issue that caused very slow scrolling when using the arrow keys to move the insertion point on some very long documents.
Fixed an issue that caused a white stripe to appear sometimes at the bottom or right edges of a page when using an on-screen background color in some zoom settings. Also improved drawing performance of documents with an on-screen background color.
Fixed an issue that caused the page shadow in “Mellel View” not to update correctly when the document window moves to the front or to the back.
Typing performance improvements, especially on machines with limited graphic performance.
German, Russian, Japanese and Norwegian localization fixes.
Enabled dictation with voice control on macOS 10.15 Catalina.
Fixed an issue that caused Mellel to crash when launched in trial mode and when exporting to ePUB on macOS 10.7 (Lion).
Fixed an issue where formatting of an auto-title title was not adjusted correctly when changing the auto-title from stream to stream or when making changes to the auto-title setup.
Fixed a spelling mistake in error message (“Chatacters outside tag”).
Fixed issues with detecting Mac App Store Receipts and purchased date for cross upgrade from the app store.

New in Mellel 5.0.0 (Sep 8, 2021)

New in Mellel 4.2.5 (Oct 21, 2019)

New in Mellel 4.2.0 (Jun 28, 2019)

New Features:
New table attributes and options:
Headers, Footers, Leading and trailing columns
Repeating headers
Alternating row colors
Outer padding
Corner Radius
Table Styles:
Attributes for 10 cell types
Border attributes defined for each cell type for outer, inner and inter-type borders
Multiple named templates containing table grid dimensions, table physical dimentions, table horizontal position, header/footer/leading/trailing configuration, repeating header and cell contents
cell paragraph and character attributes in the table style
Table style editor window:
Allowing editing of attributes per-cell type
Allowing to manage the style templates, adding, deleting and renaming templates
Preview allowing to preview table and edit cell contents for template
Table formulas:
Sum, Average, Product and Standard deviation functions
Function input can be entire row/column, only plain cells, only formula cells and segment cells (plain cells up to the last formula)
Formula is editable and allows arbitrary calculations
Quick “Cheat sheet” reference pdf accessible via the ‘?’ button
New insert table sheet:
Preview of table
Selection of table style and template
Set grid size and direction of table
Table palette improvements and changes:
added styles tab
option to set table grid size numerically
option to set table, cell selection or individual cells physical dimensions numerically in absolute or relative terms
option to set table horizontal position
Support for multiple values in border widgets (color, line type, thickness)
Table Attributes Popover:
Invoked via the edit button in “as object” selection or via the contextual menu for other selection modes
full control over table attributes
full control over style
New selection mode for table “as object”:
allow resizing the whole table by dragging the resize handle
allow deleting and editing the selected table
ease of use when dragging, copy and pasting tables
Column/Row resizing UI and options:
Measurement box while dragging a column/row border
Double-click border to enter column/row dimension numerically in measurement box
Shift to resize column alone (by dragging or by entering value numerically)
Option to equalize all columns/rows (by dragging or by entering value numerically)
“Snap” to center when moving a table horizontally by dragging
Table commands:
Accessible via the table palette and the contextual menu. New commands include:
Center Table Horizontally
Add Row/Column Before/After (replacing “Add row/column”)
Equalize Column Width/Row Heights (replacing “Equalize” which would try to equalize both or guess)
Remove Text formatting – remove any overrides in the cell text, returning to the styling defined in the table style
Improved logic for Cell splitting, merging and adding rows and columns:
If possible, the cell is split on an existing border rather then always adding a border in the exact middle of the cell
Proper and sensible handling of cell borders ensuring that outer border attributes remain for the outer borders and inner borders remain for the inner borders
Page style editor header/footer text editor improvements:
Full support for all table and image editing options
Proper undo support
Proper context menu support
Proper support for drag and drop
Proper support for editing inlines (hyperlinks)
Context menu improvements:
More consistent options for Text boxes
Removed irrelevant items when invoking context menu in small text editors around the app (formatting files etc.)
Server based Trial Mechanism:
No user option to reset trial
“real” 30 days or trial and not just counting the days since the first activation
App completely blocked after trial ends
Records start and end dates of trial
Trial/Registration improvments:
New registration prompt screen
“Trial strip” on window top with buy button
Showing “Thank you” window after registering in the app instead of going to the website
A/B testing for “Buy” button, at first startup the app decides if it will go to the web site or use the in-app purchase option when clicking “buy”
Bug Fixes:
Proper handling of table borders when sorting tables
adjusted drawing of regex inlines to allow showing the cursor on the leading edge
added docx to document types list. Allows Mellel to show up in the “open with” popup menu for docx files
Fixed an issue that caused a generic style name (Helvetica 12 etc.) to show up in Preferences/Comment attribues or in line numbering attributes in section palette
Fixes an issue where clicking “Add Record” in the Quick Index panel would always create the record in the chosen index in the index pane, ignoring the chosen index in the quick panel pane
Fixed many issues with cursor management in text boxes inside tables
Checking if we are actually getting the mac script table (normally we dont). Fixes an issue that caused Mellel to crash when working with some old system 7 mac true type fonts
iPad:
(iOS) vastly improved performance in the document selector and document editing for iPads with iCloud folders containing many items.
(iOS) Restored Mellel icon on launch screen
(iOS) Fixed a bug that caused Mellel to crash when pasting verses from OliveTree Bible study (and possibly other applications)
(iOS) Fixed an issue that allowed making selections beyond the text end, which would lead to crashes when trying to delete this text

New in Mellel 4.1.5 (Feb 10, 2019)

New in Mellel 4.1.4 (Nov 25, 2018)

Bug Fixes:
Changed format of version string in Welcome to Mellel and About Mellel dialogue-boxes to get a cleaner look and avoiding the b letter (which many mistake for a beta version)
Slight design changes for the registration details view in the Welcome To Mellel dialogue
Fixed a regression that caused Mellel to fail to move the cursor using the cursor keys after a tab
Fixed a problem that caused the insertion point not to blink or disappear completely (sometimes) when positioned on the trailing edge of the last character in a line or on a direction boundary
Fixed an issue that would cause complex Find Expressions (containing non-literal elements) to be trashed after switching to an app with an exposed Find field and back to Mellel
Fixed an issue that caused Mellel to fail to open docx document containing empty hyperlinks
Fixed an issue that caused Mellel to duplicate citations and hyperlinks when performing Find Actions with the “Any Character” element under some circumstances
Fixed an issue that caused “No Split” notes to still be split under some circumstances
Fixed an issue that caused the Marker palette Find Next/Previous marker buttons to fail to find auto-titles that were marked using the auto-title popover or in the outline
Fixed an issue that prevented Mellel from finding both an Inline element (like a citation) as an object and a string of text inside that element in one Find Expression
Changed format of version string in Welcome to Mellel and About Mellel dialogue-boxes to get a cleaner look and avoiding the b letter (which many mistake for a beta version)
Slight design changes for the registration details view in the Welcome To Mellel dialogue box
Better defaults for open template window, when setting the default template via Save as Template…, the next time the Open Template window will display the new default template in the browser instead of the last selected template
Unscan option is now enabled while Live Bibliography is active. Pressing Unscan while Live Bibliography is active will invoke an alert offering the user to turn off Live Bibliography unscanning. Scan document menu item is now disabled when in Live Bibliography mode, and the button on the Bibliography palette is also disabled
Fixed an issue that sometimes caused clicking at the end of a document, after the last endnote, to move the insertion point at the beginning of the document
Fixed various issues in factory Find Set Common Errors
German localisation fix: Fläche > Schnitt for “Face” (as in font face)
German localisation statistics palette Personen-> Zeichen for character count
Fixed some truncation and missing spaces before colons in French localisations of Index Attributes and Preferences

New in Mellel 4.1.3 (Aug 31, 2018)

Bug Fixes:
Docx import now supports non-breaking hyphen and soft hyphen
Added support for “Petite Capitals” and “Petite Capitals From Capitals” open type features
Fixed an issue that caused hyperlinks in headers and footers to be non-functional when exported to PDF
Mellel will now collect statistics in a text box selection
Fixed issues with importing docx documents containing fields spanning multiple sections. General improvements in handling of fields including the ability to resolve fields inside hyperlinks
Fixed an issue that would cause redundant document (“diamond”) sections styles to appear in a style set after dragging an index style from one set to another
Proper RTL ui for: welcome to mellel “recents” list, template browser folder list, ghost inline popover, replace styles combination lists, tag editing table in preferences, marker editing table in preferences, stroke and options popover buttons in character palette
Fixed an issue which caused strange positioning of popovers and other windows when multiple palettes are positioned spread all over the screen
Fixed an issue that prevented proper editing of the url field in the hyperlink edit panel
Fixed an issue that caused strange placement of the caret when using command+arrow key combinations with lines terminated with tabs and line breaks
Fixed an issue that caused the caret to become invisible when positioned right before a line break
Removing annotations from text when converting it to an auto-title or citation
Fixed an issue that caused an extra space to be added after certain symbols like { or } when exported to RTF
Fixed an issue that allowed inserting document variables into text boxes despite the lack of support for these in text boxes
Fixed an issue where tab labels in page style editor would get clipped on some localisations
Changed “hidden characters” to “white space” in track changes description
Fixed an issue that caused content that is enclosed in structured document tags (cover pages, table of contents etc) to be omitted when importing docx documents
Fixed an issue that caused Mellel to read annotations inside auto-titles and citations in documents created by previous versions of Mellel (that allowed this by mistake) resulting in documents that cause all sort of issues including crashing when creating an index
Fixed an issue that caused insert menu items and style menus and palettes to remain active when a sheet (edit note attributes, edit title flows etc.) is presented over the document window
Fixed an issue that caused Mellel to produce un-openable documents after inserting an index with a record whose name starts with a character encoded as surrogate pair.
Japanese localisation fixes “Notes”, “Structure”.

New in Mellel 4.1.2 Build 04 (May 25, 2018)

New in Mellel 4.1.1 Build 41101 (Apr 10, 2018)

New in Mellel 4.1.0 Build 41019 (Mar 20, 2018)

NEW FEATURES:
Native DOCX import
Character tracking
Auto-kerning for most TT fonts
Minimum word spacing
ENHANCEMENTS:
reduced minimum width for auxiliary pane (outline, index, story)
adjusted layout for character palette, popover and style editor
adjusted layout for character palette, popover and style editor
improved spacing for preferences toolbar, avoiding clashes and truncation of item names in certain localisation
removed registration prompt from “Welcome to Mellel” window
simpler and clearer registration prompt
better display of checkmark/minus in selected table cells in the palettes
ruler – drawing and allowing to click tabs that lie beyond the frame
ruler – Added some fudging when calculating opposite tab so we can catch the tab even if it is right on the frame edge or a little beyond
RTF/DOCX import font matching: looking up the “Regular” face when font name is family name instead of taking the first family member
Outline:
alternating colour for outline items
no double indent for wrapping outline items
no room reserved for outline item icon if no icon is used
option to truncate outline items instead of wrapping the lines
better distinction to the remark in outline items by using a vertical line next to it
limiting outline item indent (normally based on font size)
“soft-click” (click after a pause on a selected item) on outline items will enter editing only when clicking on the the actual text of the item, clicking outside will navigate to the beginning of the section
Auto-title palette:
Auto-title palette now showing the flow level of selected Auto-title with a checkmark next to the flow name when an Auto-title is selected in text
Auto-title palette now effects and reflects the selection in the outline pane
Auto-indent:
continuation paragraphs as explicit attributes
allowing to set continuation paragraph indent and margin per auto-title level
allowing to override continuation level indent and margin in document and save it into the auto-title setup
indent/outdent for multi-paragraphs (indenting auto title paragraphs as auto-title paragraphs and continuation paragraphs as continuation paragraphs)
indicating level of auto-title paragraph or continuation paragraph in auto-title palette
applying levels using palette by manipulating the level of auto-title or continuation according to the type of paragraph
Story:
Story points are drawn on their own line with a default font and default alignment and margin with a background and lines along the sides.
Preferences option to set the font size for story points
“soft-click” on story points in the pane will only enter editing if the click is within the text of the title. Otherwise it will navigate to the story point
BUG FIXES:
Fixed an issue that caused strikethrough to be drawn at the bottom of the letters instead of the middle under High Sierra
Fixed an issue that caused story points names not to be updated after editing the name in the pane and pressing return
Fixed an issue that caused “diamond” styles to appear in a document after adding an index style to the style set
Fixed a bug that caused pressing the “Superscript” checkbox for note symbol attributes in the edit note style not to have any effect
Fixed an issue that caused the “Open in Mellel” service not to function
Fixed an issue that caused changes to remarks in story character and story location to be lost when clicking on some other element in the pane
Fixed an issue that caused the style set list to be shown unsorted in the menu and style set editor list under High Sierra
Corrected tooltip for Increase/Decrease level buttons in outline pane for both the command name and keyboard shortcut
Fixed an issue that caused changes in image title filed to be lost when dismissing the image edit popover without first moving to a different field or pressing enter
Fixed a problem that made image/text box action buttons to look bad on non-retina displays.
Fixed an issue that caused notes with the “below text” position to be exported to RTF as endnotes rather then footnotes
Correctly importing “below text” footnotes as below text and not as “bottom of page” footnotes from RTF
Fixed an issue that would cause bibliography scanning to override character attributes applied to citation if said attributes were applied when the citation was in final form
Fixed an issue that would cause Mellel to reject a user name when activating Mellel if the user name is copied along with a terminating CR or LF
Fixed an issue that caused “diamond” styles to appear in the paragraph and character style lists following working with edit Auto-title flows sheet or even switching between apps.
Many localisation fixes, especially with the German localisation

New in Mellel 4.0.3 Build 40305 (Dec 12, 2017)

Bug Fixes:
Fixed an issue that caused sluggish performance when typing in large documents containing many auto-titles
Additional optimisations to improve typing performance with larger documents
Fixed some issues that caused sluggish performance when typing in large documents containing inline images that serve as cross-reference targets
Fixed an issue that caused sluggish performance when typing while the statistics palette was open
Plugged a couple of memory leaks
Assigned the following scripts as RTL: N’Ko, Samaritan, Mandaic, Imperial Aramaic, Palmyrene, Nabataean, Hatran, Phoenician, Lydian, Meroitic Hieroglyphs, Meroitic Cursive, Kharoshthi, Old South Arabic, Old North Arabic, Manichaean, Avestan, Inscriptional Parthian, Inscriptional Pahlavi, Psalter Pahlavi, some correction to character information in Syriac and Thaana
Assigned the range U+10BB0 to U+10BFF to be RTL
Fixed an issue that caused Mellel to crash at startup on systems with badly configured input sources (keyboard layouts, input methods)
Fixed an issue that caused Mellel to crash when creating a new story character or location via the character or location fields of a story point in some of the localisations
Fixed an issue where showing/hiding the outline/story/index panes vie the View menu would fail to also cause an adjustment to the “fit” zoom levels (fit page, wit width)
Fixed an issue that caused URLs entered into a hyperlink URL field to produce non-functioning hyperlinks if the pasted link was not URL-encoded
Fixed spelling in factory style set Exclanation->Exclamation
View > Full Screen item now showing checkmark if in Full Screen mode
Better normalisation for Hebrew pasted as plain text, ensuring that Holam pointing mark always precedes other vowels
Fixed a bug that caused Mellel to fail to perform migration from version 3 in pre macOS 10.10 systems
Fixes an issue that caused Mellel to crash when tabbing between fields in the Newsletter signup dialogue (Mac App Store)
Fixes an issue that caused the ruler pop-up (small edit field showing numeric value when clicking or dragging a tab/margin/indent) to be positioned outside the screen boundaries in full screen mode
Fixed several issues applying markers to outline items via the Markers palette.

New in Mellel 4.0.2 Build 40201 (Oct 6, 2017)

New in Mellel 4.0.1 Build 40104 (Sep 27, 2017)

Bug Fixes:
Updated localisations
Updated user guide
Fixed typo (Autotitiles->Autotitles) in The auto-title pane blocker view
Fixed an issue that caused the symbols & numbers group heading fields not to appear correctly according to the numbers & symbols grouping setting in “Edit Index Attributes” window
Matched order of side pane items in View menu and side pane
fixed spelling Seperate -> Separate in Edit Index attributes and Index style editor
Changed “Show Comments” to “Show Remarks” in outline context menu
Fixed many issues under 10.6, including missing palettes, misbehaving side pane
Fixed an issue that caused Mellel to crash when displaying a text box or an image with a frame with rounded corners in mac os 10.8 and previous versions
Fixed an issue that cased Mellel to hang and behave oddly when opening documents with list that had old style (pre 4.0) level overrides specifying only character style variation.
Fixed an issue that caused Mellel to crash when switching autotitle setups while still editing a tag flow that will be deleted as a result of the operation
Fixed an issue that caused final citation order to become mangled for citations in notes referenced from a single table cell.
Fixed an issue that caused bad rendering of references inside notes
Fixed an issue that caused Mellel to crash when choosing “Capture selection from screen” from context menu while editing a comment.
some performance improvements to find/replace application
Improved appearance for preferences toolbar with some localisations
Fixed an issue that caused the Mellel 4 trial day counter to go to zero after migrating an older Mellel 3 installation settings.
Fixed an issue that caused the “13” entry in the font size popup to be replaced by whatever “other” value a user enters in some circumstances.
Fixed problem that caused the left border of the “Characters” field in a story point on the side pane not to be drawn on some systems
Fixed a bug that caused added characters and locations not to be saved in a story point when document is saved and closed right after adding while creating a story point or location.
disabling virtual target popup when there are no virtual targets available in bookmark popover and edit cell
Fixed an issue that caused Mellel to turn on the discrete GPU (higher energy consumption) when launched
Fixed an issue that caused the “mention” popup in edit page style (header/footer editor) to be empty.
Fixed an issue that caused the placeholder “title” element for mentions to become chopped in header/footer editor in page style editor.
Fixed shortcut for soft hyphen in french localisation

New in Mellel 4.0.0 Build 40081 (Aug 24, 2017)

New Features:
Index
Story
Auto-indent
“Welcome to Mellel” window
Migration Assistant
Tags & Tag icons
Option to convert and upgrade Mac App Store receipts to direct licenses
IMPROVEMENTS:
Outline:
Displaying marker for outline items
Displaying tag icons for appropriate items
(optionally) Displaying comments in outline
Wrapping titles
Inline editing
Improved conversion of incompatible format elements (tabs, line breaks) when displaying
Adding, indenting/outdenting and removing via keyboard shortcuts
Add sibling, aunt or child for outline items
Tab to switch to document text
Option to set outline font size
Option to open for editing outline items attributes in the outline
Option to filter outline items by name, comment, tag and marker
‘+’ button to create a new outline item
Auto-titles:
Editing via popover
Allowing to delete auto-title via popover button
Added tags
Added comments
Added markers
Improved conversion of selected text into an auto-title
Renamed “Prompt for title when inserting” to “Select title after inserting” and changed behaviour accordingly
Bookmarks:
Editing via popover
Allowing to delete auto-title via popover button
Added tags
Added comments
Added markers
Bookmark name based on selected text (if any) when inserting, bookmark doesn’t remove the selection but is inserted at the beginning
Style Set window
Tabbed design
allowing to move to next/previous style within the style editors
GUI & Design:
New application icon
New document and template icons
New about screen
New toolbar icons
New palette icons
New preferences icons
New and bigger tab stop and margin/indent icons
New rendering style for format elements (auto-title formats, x ref, index attributes)
Notes:
Using “Attributes Buttons” to manage reference symbol, note symbol and note text styling
Allows applying styles and variations
Allows setting “ad-hoc” attributes
Allows managing the corresponding character and paragraph styles from within the
Allowing to fully manage note styles from within the note streams sheet including adding, deleting, renaming and modifying note styles.
Lists:
Using an “Attribute button” to control character attributes for the list symbol in the list palette and list style dialog
Allows applying styles and variations
Allows setting “ad-hoc” attributes
Allows managing the character and style from within the popover (no need to modify the style elsewhere)
Line numbering
Using an “Attribute button” to control character attributes for the line number in the “Line Numbers” panel.
Allows applying styles and variations
Allows setting “ad-hoc” attributes
Allows managing the character and style from within the popover (no need to modify the style elsewhere)
Comments:
Using an “Attribute button” to control character attributes for comments in the preferences.
Allows applying styles and variations
Allows setting “ad-hoc” attributes
Allows managing the character and style from within the popover (no need to modify the style elsewhere)
Character style editor:
No longer using the “A” widget to indirectly select which colour and border we’re working on, all controls are available at the root level.
Document window:
Improved management of document window sizing to accommodate the open/close states of various panes and their contents and adjust it when needed.
TOC:
TOC page numbers are now live links in exported PDF
Cross Reference
Allowing to filter targets according to name, tag and marker
Template Browser:
New design
Removed recent documents section
Removed indication and setting of default template
Revamped document creation flow:
Removed the confusing “With new documents” preference setting
File->New always opens the template browser
File->New with defaults opens a new document based on the default template
Clear & Simple UI for choosing the default template in Preferences
Markers:
Removed document specific marker names, marker names are always global
Allow setting marker names and colours to any custom value in the preferences, applies immediately to any document
Better default names and colours for markers
Option to reset marker names and colours to factory defaults
Allowing to set markers for elements in panes like outline items, story elements and index records
Logging:
Logging is now done to a mellel specific file in “Application Support” and not to the system console, option for diagnostic logging
Application Startup:
Under the hood changes to allow more orderly showing of various windows at startup (registration prompt, campaign windows, welcome to mellel etc.)
Mellel text fields:
Numerous improvements to Mellel text fields (non system provided text fields like find and replace, format fields, citation text in citation dialog etc) for better looks and more consistent behaviour with standard controls
Registration prompt, signup dialogs:
New design
Character Palette:
Removed “Attributes/More” tab
Removed “A” widget to select part/border
Popovers to set some less frequently accessed attributes like stroke type/colour and secondary font
Wider font popup menu
Breaks:
Added “Fixed width No-Break space” character (Insert->Special Character->Space->Fixed width No-Break space) a no break space that maintains it’s width (identical to the normal space width) in justified paragraphs
Floating Elements:
Out of range floating elements handling – mellel detects cases where changes to the length of page ranges causes floating elements (images or text boxes) to be hidden and shows a sheet allowing to correct the problem (removing the images or moving them to a visible location)
Templates:
New set of factory templates
Registration
Improved messaging for registration issues
Better handling for errors typing registration code
Updated hyphenation dictionaries
Default zoom setting is now 128
BUG FIXES:
Fixed an issue that caused annoying and inconsistent behaviour that caused Mellel to forget character attributes changes made to the blinking insertion point when on the last paragraph
Correct export for directionality breaking space in plain text
Fixed an issue that cause some strange stuff, including crashes to happen when dragging images and text over a mention
Fixed a few memory leaks
Fixed an issue that caused bad layout of sections after undoing a removal of a section break.
Fixed an issue that cause citations dragged from bookends to appear unverified
Fixed a bug that caused Mellel to pause slightly and then beep when clicking “Copy Citation” in bookends while in Live Bibliography mode.
Fixed an issue that causes incorrect x-ref renderings with documents containing very large amount of references
Fixed a crash that could happen in a very rare case where a document would contain a few blank pages at the end.

New in Mellel 3.5.5 Build 35501 (Jul 31, 2017)

New in Mellel 3.5.4 Build 1 (Jun 13, 2017)

New in Mellel 3.5.3 Build 2 (May 17, 2017)

New in Mellel 3.5.2 Build 2 (Nov 7, 2016)

New in Mellel 3.5.1 Build 2 (Jul 29, 2016)

New in Mellel 3.5.0 Build 18 (Jul 6, 2016)

NEW FEATURES AND ENHANCEMENTS:
(iOS) Export to PDF on iOS
(Mac) overlay buttons when editing a graphic object
(Mac) editing image and text box using popover, removed model dialog box and "Object" palette
(Mac) RTF export of fill and line options of images and text boxes
(Mac) RTF import of image frame, width, color
(iOS, Mac) Tracking guides when dragging and resizing a floating image or text box.
(Mac) Using combo-box for line width in all places where setting such an attribute applies (image, text box, note sheet, note style, section palette & style editor, line numbering editor, table palette) allowing to have custom line widths.
(iOS, Mac) Dashed line for images and text boxes
(iOS, Mac) Corner radius for image and text box frames
(Mac) Allowing drag & Drop in mellel-text fields (Auto-title edit dialog, Citation edit dialog, page style header/footer edit dialog etc.)
(Mac, iOS) Campaign manager
(Mac) Revised and update template suite
(iOS, Mac) Text Boxes:
Styled text
Multiple Paragraphs
Lists
Padding
Overflow indicator
WYSIWYG editing
Inline & floating
Fit width, Fit height
Toolbar button
BUG FIXES:
(iOS, Mac) Fixed an issue that caused floating elements to get duplicated to multiple page ranges when inseting a page style break under certain conditions.
(Mac) Fixed an issue that caused strange behaviour when turning off track changes while a floating object is selected among some other things. Correct adjustment of editor selection when turning off track changes while editing some inlines (citations, text boxes, hyperlinks)
(Mac) Fixed an issue that caused buttons with PNG images to look like a grey rectangle when disabled in El-Capitan
(Mac) Fixed an issue that caused odd behaviour when switching between editing find expressions containing character ranges, character sets and special characters (tab, return etc)
(Mac, iOS) Fixed an issue that caused Mellel to fail to exit track-changes mode sometimes with documents containing inline elements (autotitles/citations) which have insertions/deletions applied on the end of the inline text
(Mac, iOS) Fixed an issue that caused hangs an other odd behaviour after undoing turning off track changes under certain circumstances.
(Mac) Fixed an issue that caused the blinking insertion point to become invisible when placed inside a text box with a "none" fill background.
(Mac) Fixed an issue that caused document display to jump and for the insertion point to be placed in the wrong place sometimes when clicking in a text area while a floating element, table and other non-main text, elements are selected.
(iOS) Better adjustment of undo/redo buttons after undoing/redoing.
(iOS) More smooth behaviour when undoing and redoing contiguous insertions and deletions in the text.

New in Mellel 3.4.5 Build 4 (Apr 13, 2016)

New in Mellel 3.4.4 Build 7 (Nov 23, 2015)

New in Mellel 3.4.3 Build 2 (Oct 4, 2015)

New in Mellel 3.4.2 Build 2 (Jul 21, 2015)

New in Mellel 3.4.1 Build 7 (Jul 13, 2015)

New in Mellel 3.4.0 Build 15 (Jun 16, 2015)

NEW FEATURES:
Added option to export outline to PDF
Added option to export annotations to PDF
Language handling improvments:
"None" language defines spelling dictionary as "automatic by language"
Blocking option to set spelling dictionary and other settings to the "none" language
Default languge is "none", keyboard synchronisation is off by default
Ignoring language info when pasting rtf and html, using the language currently used in the document text
Added preferences option to allow ignoring language settings in imported rtf documents
IMPROVEMENTS:
Mellel is now 64/32 bit universal binary, including quick look and spotlight plug-ins
Improved interaction for resizing images using an eight handle system.
Improved handling and detection of clicks outside pages for better selection behaviour
Revised and improved "Scroll to show" (Scrolling done when searching and navigating in the document)
Revised and improved the way pages are positioned on the document view
Removed references to Lucida Grande in UI, replaced with Helvetica Neue
Adjusted design of document and find set windows to suite Yosemite
Improved font substitution (for characters not supported by selected font), considers boldness of font etc.
Improved missing font substitution, Mellel will try to match the face (bold, italic etc) of the substitute font with the face of the original font
Renamed "Copy/Paste Special" menu items to include the word "Copy" or "Paste" for better clarity and to allow assigning keyboard shortcuts to them
Uniform (regardless of page scaling) 1 point wide caret
Improved rendering of letters+combining marks (accents) for non-Opentype fonts
When deleting a comment while editing, selection is moved to the text location that the comment is marking instead of just stopping the editor
Improved Find Set interaction:
Enabled stopping (with no consequences) a find set while applying it
Smooth progress animation while applying a find set
Improved performance
BUG FIXES:
Fixed an issue where typing a number with a thousands separator in the page number field of "go to page" dialog would cause the program to go to page 1
Fixed a bug that caused Mellel to fail to match attributes when making searches involving color attributes.
Re-Enabled editing marker names in document setup sheet
Fixed a bug that caused selection to stop responding when dismissing a comment while editing it.
Fixed issues with navigating and finding content inside comments that are applied to the beginning of the text
Fixed an issue that caused the page style indicator not to be updated after applying a page style
Correctly adjusting cursor when moving over the ruler
Fixed an issue that caused Mellel to produce faulty OPML when choosing the "export content as notes"
Fixed an issue where default printer selection would not apply on new documents.
Added language to the attribute description in replace styles.
Fixed a bug that caused Mellel to take extremely long time to zoom in when pressing command + on certain documents.
Fixed an issue that caused Mellel to hang and show the spinning cursor when going over the "Comment" submenu in the edit menu with certain documents.
Fixed a bug that caused single and double quotes to be inserted twice when using typographer quotes in conjunction with keyboard layoutes that produce single and double quotes using a "dead key" (for example U.S. International - PC)

New in Mellel 3.3.8 Build 3 (Feb 9, 2015)

New in Mellel 3.3.7 Build 5 (Dec 19, 2014)

New in Mellel 3.3.6 Build 5 (Jul 30, 2014)

New in Mellel 3.3.5 Build 5 (Jun 27, 2014)

New in Mellel 3.3.3 Build 4 (May 26, 2014)

New in Mellel 3.3.2 Build 2 (Apr 2, 2014)

New in Mellel 3.3.1 Build 2 (Feb 26, 2014)

Bug fixes and enhancements:
(12871) Fixed an issue that caused the palettes to be positioned at the wrong place when connecting an external monitor while in full screen mode.
(13061) Fixed wrong name with Invoice template.
Fixed bug that caused Mellel Lite to show on the App Store as supporting 10.5.
Fixed an issue that caused the selection to misbehave and become slow and unresponsive when editing a comment while the Statistics palette is open.
Updated Deutsch (reformiert) hyphenation dictionary.
Fixed an issue that caused mellel to crash, and to other odd things to happen when pasting RTF text.
(13032) Fixed an issue that caused Mellel to clip some of the content at the margin, with documents containing multiple page ranges with multiple settings for margins.
Fixed a bug that caused Mellel to crash when changing the Auto-title setup to a setup containing a smaller number of Auto-title streams (therefore deleting the streams) with documents containing Cross References to the deleted Auto titles.
Fixed an issue that caused Mellel to crash or behave erratically when invoking "Insert bookmark" and then pressing "Cancel" in the Edit Bookmark dialogue.
(12868) Comments now draw background colour of text, if such colour is set.
Fixed issues with adjusting the character palette after making character attribute changes to text in comments.
(12874) Fixed an issue that caused Mellel not to detect bold and italics with cocoa rtf files (TextEdit, Scrivener, etc.)
(12946) Default colour for floating image frame is now black instead of white.
Fixed Spelling of "Parentheses" factory find action name (Parentheses->Parentheses)
(13005) Fixed a bug that enabled double clicking mentions to edit them and that caused all sorts of strange behaviour when trying to edit a mention by "soft clicking" it or option clicking it.
(13017) Command+F now always focuses on the find field. Command+J (scroll to show selection) will now close the find pane and focus on the document (and scroll to the selection, of course)
(13018) Restored a regression with the ability to double click on note symbol to jump to the note reference.
Fixed a bug that caused Mellel to crash when invoking the About box before the Splash screen is dismissed, and clicking inside.
Fixed a bug that caused Mellel to crash when pasting text containing comments from Scrivner.
Fixed an issue that caused Mellel to crash when opening rtfd documents via Import->RTF.
Fixed a bug that caused Mellel to crash when saving and editing imported rtf documents containing empty comments.
Fixed a bug that caused Edit -> Comment -> Delete comments in selection to sometimes fail.

New in Mellel 3.3.0 Build 32 (Feb 6, 2014)

New Features:
Comments
New background for annotations pane
Find Strip in document window
Revised Find Set window
Printing of the annotation pane (if visible while printing)
Automatic crash reporting
Added small caps mapping to bibliography setup
Built in support and beta report forms
Added “insert hyperlink” to contextual menu
Smarter conversion of text to auto title when creating an auto title from a selection: if the format specifies a character style (or an associated character style to the paragraph style) then the style is applied on the text by mapping the text attributes to the variations in the style (unless the format also specifies a style variation in which case the variation is applied on the whole text). When the format doesn’t specify a style, the styling inside the text is preserved.
Drawing parts of the document and find set windows mode dimmed and subdued when not the main window. Including: Document and Find set bottom bar area, find strip controls, ruler, document page shadow and style well
Synchronising between landscape setting in page setup and the setting in the doc. When opening the dialog, the setting is set according to the first page range. When applying, the setting is applied on all page ranges (if changed)
Preferences option to control showing the user name and date in annotation bubble. Concentrated bubble options in preferences document setup
Bubble buttons are not normally drawn, shown when mouse is over the bubble.
More options for changing a note's stream:
While editing a note via the context menu "Note Stream" Submenu
While editing a note via Insert->Note->Name of stream
While the note reference is selected by choosing Insert->Note->Name of stream.
Allowing overriding "Hebrew Quotes fix" by pressing control and typing the singe or double quote.
When inserting a table, default direction for the table comes from the current paragraph direction and not the last used direction.
Simplified and improved rendering of auto title titles in mentions, TOC and xref. Variations in the title are mapped to the corresponding variations in the output style except for base which is mapped to the variation specified in the format element. Overrides from the format element are then applied on the resulting string.
(12770) Keyboard shortcut for opening/closing the annotations pane (cmd+option+O)
Added “Forgot Code” button to Registration Code window
Bug Fixes:
Fixed a bug that caused Mellel to crash when dealing with text wrapping around images in certain narrow margin situations. Slightly better logging when dealing with the email service
Changed rendering of “dangling mentions”, drawing a thing space instead of and marking it with a red frame on screen
Fixed an issue where changes in the user hyphenation dictionary wouldn't be shown inside tables after pressing "Refresh open documents"
Allowing to search for citations, auto titles and hyperlinks inside "all"
Fixed a bug that caused the last letter to be chopped off of auto titles when approving a track changes modification applied to them
Revealing the correct bubble page when making document text selection involving TC elements or comments
Fixed a problem that caused bad display of insert mention and insert element popups in the header/footer editing overlay under Mavericks
Fixed an issue that caused Mellel to hang and crash sometimes when rendering documents with very long footnotes whose “may split” setting is not “anywhere”.
Fixed an issue where some text in headers and footers of imported RTF document would be hidden.
Fixes an issue where some headers and footers of imported rtf documents would not be imported at all.
Fixed an issue that caused attribute changes (switching bold, italic, etc on or off), to be ignored if a tracked changes (deletion/insertion) happens to start at the same location when exporting RTF.
Hebrew quotes fix now works in the find strip fields
Improved rtf font matching method. Resolves many issues in importing and pasting styled text from other applications
Fixed an issue that caused Mellel to hang when choosing “save” or “Save as” with new documents when “system auto-save” is enabled
Added “Language” submenu in the context menu.
Opml expot panel: fixed inlude->include
Improved font matching for cocoa rtf. Improves opening and pasting from other rich text Cocoa applications

New in Mellel 3.3 Build 29 Beta (Jan 23, 2014)

Enhancements and Improvements:
(12646a) Added an option to change a note's stream while editing a note via the contextual menu “Note Stream” submenu.
(12646a) Added an option to change a note's stream while editing it via Insert->Note.
(12646a) Choosing Insert > Note > while a note reference is selected changes the note stream to the selected stream, instead of inserting a new note.
Improved rtf font matching method. Resolves many issues in importing and pasting styled text from other applications.
Added “Language” submenu in the context menu.
Updated localisations.
Improved implementation of hebrew quotes fix to allow better interaction with typographer quotes and to allow overriding the fix temporarily by pressing control while typing the single/double quote.
Hebrew quotes fix now works in the find strip fields.
Privacy text now based on content in website.
When inserting a table, default direction for the table comes from the current paragraph direction and not the last used direction.
Context menu options for switching to editing a comment and for deleting a comment when standing in the commented text.
Disabling "Delete annotations" menu item when editing a header/footer
Delete selected comments. Edit > Comment > Delete All Comments menu item now changes contextually to offer to delete all comments when nothing is selected or to delete only comments inside the current selection.
Simplified and improved rendering of auto title titles in mentions, TOC and xref. Variations in the title are mapped to the corresponding variations in the output style except for base which is mapped to the variation specified in the format element. Overrides from the format element are then applied on the resulting string.
(12637) Comment markings in text are not drawn when printing if the annotation pane is closed.
Bug fixes:
(12751) Fixed typo in beta report dialogue.
Fixed Find Set window failure to show or showing broken on 10.5.
(12726) Fixed an issue that caused the popup menus in the header/footer editing overlay and the find set window to fail to show on pre 10.9 systems.
Opml export panel: fixed inlude->include.
(12737) Fixed a problem that caused Mellel hang and stop responding when typing in a comment directly after choosing “Edit Comment” in the context menu
Fixed an issue that caused Mellel to hang and crash sometimes when rendering documents with very long footnotes whose “may split” setting is not “anywhere”.
(12529) Fixed an issue where some text in headers and footers of imported RTF document would be hidden.
Fixes an issue where some headers and footers of imported rtf documents would not be imported at all.
(12524) Fixed an issue that caused attribute changes (switching bold, italic, etc on or off), to be ignored if a tracked changes (deletion/insertion) happens to start at the same location.
Fixed an issue that caused Mellel to crash when dragging text from or to an comment bubble.
Fixed an issue that caused Mellel to crash when making changes to annotation bubble appearance options (display user name, display date) after a document was closed.
Fixed an issue that caused Mellel to hang when choosing “save” or “Save as” with new documents when “system auto-save” is enabled.

New in Mellel 3.2.7 Build 2 (Nov 14, 2013)

New in Mellel 3.2.6 Build 2 (Oct 28, 2013)

New in Mellel 3.2.5 Build 1 (Oct 14, 2013)

New in Mellel 3.2.4 Build 2 (Sep 10, 2013)

New in Mellel 3.2.3 Build 1 (Aug 13, 2013)

New in Mellel 3.2.2 Build 1 (Jul 5, 2013)

New in Mellel 3.2.1 Build 1 (Jun 21, 2013)

New in Mellel 3.2.0 Build 10 (Jun 5, 2013)

New Features:
Improved support for TextExpander auto-capitalisation
Improved input methods support allowing for more modern features including Mountain Lion's "iOS style" accented characters insertion (holding a key and then choosing from an accent list)
Completed retina support
Added icons to "insert element" popups (find, replace) in the find panel
Added auto title regex element
Document defaults. You can now set the default zoom and spread mode in the preferences, overriding the setting in the template.
Rating prompt (Mac app store only)
Default template changes
You can now assign the default template in the templates browser
Setting a default template in the templates browser will also automatically set the new document preference to "Open template". Unchecking the default template will restore the option to opening the template browser when opening a new document.
Added the "Default template for import" option to the preferences. Allows setting a template for use when importing document from rtf, plain text etc
Checking the "make default" checkbox in the "Save as Template" sheet will also automatically set the option to open new documents from the default template and not show the template browser.
Hyperlinks
Allows to link to a web page, email or a local file on the disk
Import and export from RTF
PDF export produces live, clickable hyperlinks
Added options for finding within hyperlinks and finding hyperlinks in the find panel.
Language changes
Language is now a part of the character style
Each variation can have its own language
You can choose languages "ad hoc" (in the palette) and this will not be shown as an override (that is, the style name will not show '+' when the language has been overridden)
When applying a style or variation, language overrides are removed from the text but only if the language is not "none"
Keyboard shortcuts for cycling in the preferred languages and toggling the last two languages.
Default language is now applied on blank templates.
Improved language/keyboard synchronization mechanism
You can assign a keyboard to more then one language
When you choose a language, Mellel will switch automatically to the assigned keyboard for that language, if there is no such keyboard, Mellel will allow typing using the current keyboard in that language even if that keyboard is assigned to another language.
When changing the keyboard and typing, Mellel will automatically switch to the last language that was used with that keyboard.
Bug Fixes:
Fixed an issue where the insertion point would disappear when positioned right next to a wrapable inline image
Restored support for math magic baseline info in image pastes
Fixed a bug that sometimes caused incorrect representation of lists in plain text export and copy
Notes are now filtered from the text when pasting a text containing notes into a note.
Corrected issues with citations in the upcoming Bookends version
Fixed a bug that caused a very crash while typing.
Updated factory templates
Fixed an issue that caused italic and bold not to show up when importing certain RTF documents (for example, Nisus)
Fixed an issue where dragging and dropping a citation over another citation would not remove the citation from the original location but leave it there causing the move to become a copy.
Fixed a bug that caused Mellel to crash sometimes (rarely) when saving a document
Work around a system problem that caused faint lines to appear near the top and bottom of a palette tab after dragging the tab

New in Mellel 3.1.3 (Feb 12, 2013)

New in Mellel 3.1.0 (Jan 29, 2013)

New Factory Templates mechanism - Factory templates remain in the application bundle and are not copied to the Application Support. Allowing the templates to update automatically when updating the application
Migration to the new method is done by moving all user templates into "old templates folder" in the Application Support folder
Document defaults are now set vie the default template
All new documents are based on a template, either the default (is set) or one that was selected in the template browser
Imported documents (RTF, Plain text, OPML etc) are based on the default template allowing you to control which style set, auto title setup, note stream and so forth are used for the imported document. Of-course, setting in the imported document will override these defaults.
Options for setting default styles, background colour, etc. were removed from the Preferences window
An option to select a default template via a fancy browser was added to the preferences screen
Option to choose whether to show the template browser or open a new document based on the default template when creating a new document was added
Option to set the default template when saving it using the "Save As Template" sheet
Migration - a template based on older document defaults is created in the Application Support folder and is set as the default template
Much improved template browser
Improved look
Added option to browse recent documents
Keyboard navigation in the template browser
Language improvements:
It is now possible to assign a language as the default language. This will apply the language on older (Pre 3.0) documents and imported documents
The default setting for default language is based on the UI language. This should improve the first time experience
Language list is now conveniently arranged by placing languages associated with the active input methods first
Language list in preferences screen will now remember the selected language when re-opening the preferences window
Retina support. The following elements are now high-resolution (retina) compatible. Normal resolution elements have also been updated in most cases
Palette frames:
Palette tab icons - also updated their looks in normal view C. Toolbar - also updated for normal screens
Bottom bar
Outline
Ruler, tab well
Document icons - also updated for normal screens
Background patterns for documents
About and splash screens
Improved look for track changes annotation pane
Unified pattern list for document background and fullscreen background
Bibliography style mappings: You can now control the mapping of bibliography and citation formatting options (bold, italic etc.) into Mellel characters styles or variation
Mapping is document specific and not global
Mapping is set via the "Edit Style Mapping" button
It is possible to control the style mappings for bibliography and citations
Old (Global) mapping settings, have been removed from the preferences screen
New design for About, Splash and the Nag screens
Unified the Document Setup and Document Info sheets. You no longer need to wonder whether what you're looking for is here or there.
Changed method of globalising style sets in the style sets window. Style set is duplicated and then added to the global list. Originating document is applied with the new duplicated set
Added a button to open the automatic backup folder (Preferences Window)
Switched positions of Attributes and Styles tabs in the palettes.
Fixes a bug that caused the "Show" and "Insert Break" toolbar item menu to be disabled when in full screen mode
Fixed a bug that disabled working in the Norwegian localisation
When exporting (pdf, text, doc etc) the use of the correct file name extension (.pdf, .txt etc) is enforced to avoid overwriting existing files after clicking them in the save panel
Fixed an issue that caused superscripted or baseline shifted characters to become clipped sometimes at the top of the page
Fixed a bug that caused files opened from a template to use the template name as the default name for a document instead of untitled under certain conditions
Fixed an issue that caused dragged tabs and margins in the ruler to jump to unexpected places if releasing or depressing the shift (which turns snap to point off) and not moving the mouse
Fixes an issue that caused ruler tabs to sometimes jump around when dragging the margin
Fixed an issue that caused Mellel to hang when opening some pre 3.0 documents
When creating a footnote/endnote or a citaiton, the current text lanugage is assigned by default
Fixed a bug that caused the OPML export options panel not to show when exporting to OPML
Fixed a problem that caused auto titles in pasted text to sometimes appear trimmed when pasting from another document
Fixed a bug that caused Mellel to crash sometimes when deleting large amount of cells in a table. Drawing ruler elements (tabs, margins) on a pixel boundary to avoid looking fuzzy
Fixed a bug that caused the line numbering attributes panel to appear behind the section style editing dialog
Fixed a problem that caused long palette captions (e.g. "Auto-Title" in Greek) to appear clipped
Much more useful right-click for auto-titles and citations - the object is selected as whole and relevant options like changing the auto-title flow or opening the citation for editing are shown
Consistent options for editing and changing items like auto-titles, citations notes and more in the context menu:
Auto-Titles: Edit, Change flow
Citations: Edit
Notes: Edit, Change note stream
Bookmark and Reference: Edit
Better behaviour when changing column count from 1 to more (that is, when turning columns on). Column order is determined from the current paragraph direction
Fixed an issue that would cause Mellel to sometimes behave strangely after performing "Replace All" issuing all sort of Messages to the console
Fixed a bug that caused Mellel to hang sometimes when making doing "Replace all" with documents containing multiple page ranges when the replace expression is longer or shorter then the found expression
Fixed an issue when importing .docx documents via File->Import->Word Format would fail while dragging the same .docx file over Melle's icon would import the document
Fixed an issue where the find panel would dissappear behind the document window after performing a long find/replace operation if the operation caused the progress dialog to show up ("Scanning Text", "Rendering Text" etc.)
Fixed a problem that would emit invalid codes when registering

New in Mellel 3.0.3 Beta 1 (Jan 26, 2013)

New in Mellel 3.0.2 (Sep 25, 2012)

New in Mellel 3.0.1 (Jul 28, 2012)

New in Mellel 3.0.0 (Jul 12, 2012)

New in Mellel 2.9.2 (May 29, 2012)

New in Mellel 2.9.1 Build 1 (Sep 23, 2011)

New in Mellel 2.9.0 Build 26 (Aug 16, 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

New in Mellel 2.8.2 Build 3 (Mar 23, 2011)

New in Mellel 2.8.1 Build 4 (Feb 23, 2011)

New in Mellel 2.8.0 Build 23 (Jan 22, 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

New in Mellel 2.7.3 Build 2 (Feb 16, 2010)

New in Mellel 2.7.1 Build 3 (Oct 15, 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

New in Mellel 2.7.0 Build 26 (Sep 16, 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

New in Mellel 2.6.1 Build 2 (Feb 2, 2009)

New in Mellel 2.6.0 Build 15 (Jan 20, 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.

Mellel Changelog

What's new in Mellel 6.0.3

New in Mellel 6.0.2 (Feb 13, 2024)

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New in Mellel 6.0.0 (Dec 14, 2023)

New in Mellel 5.1.6 (Sep 28, 2023)

New in Mellel 5.1.5 (Jun 19, 2023)

New in Mellel 5.1.4 (Mar 2, 2023)

New in Mellel 5.1.3 (Aug 24, 2022)

New in Mellel 5.1.2 (May 27, 2022)

New in Mellel 5.1.1 (Mar 25, 2022)

New in Mellel 5.1.0 (Feb 15, 2022)

New in Mellel 5.0.9 (Jan 10, 2022)

New in Mellel 5.0.8 (Sep 8, 2021)

New in Mellel 5.0.7 (Sep 8, 2021)

New in Mellel 5.0.6 (Sep 8, 2021)

New in Mellel 5.0.5 (Sep 8, 2021)

New in Mellel 5.0.4 (Sep 8, 2021)

New in Mellel 5.0.3 (Sep 8, 2021)

New in Mellel 5.0.2 (Sep 8, 2021)

New in Mellel 5.0.0 (Sep 8, 2021)

New in Mellel 4.2.5 (Oct 21, 2019)

New in Mellel 4.2.0 (Jun 28, 2019)

New in Mellel 4.1.5 (Feb 10, 2019)

New in Mellel 4.1.4 (Nov 25, 2018)

New in Mellel 4.1.3 (Aug 31, 2018)

New in Mellel 4.1.2 Build 04 (May 25, 2018)

New in Mellel 4.1.1 Build 41101 (Apr 10, 2018)

New in Mellel 4.1.0 Build 41019 (Mar 20, 2018)

New in Mellel 4.0.3 Build 40305 (Dec 12, 2017)

New in Mellel 4.0.2 Build 40201 (Oct 6, 2017)

New in Mellel 4.0.1 Build 40104 (Sep 27, 2017)

New in Mellel 4.0.0 Build 40081 (Aug 24, 2017)

New in Mellel 3.5.5 Build 35501 (Jul 31, 2017)

New in Mellel 3.5.4 Build 1 (Jun 13, 2017)

New in Mellel 3.5.3 Build 2 (May 17, 2017)

New in Mellel 3.5.2 Build 2 (Nov 7, 2016)

New in Mellel 3.5.1 Build 2 (Jul 29, 2016)

New in Mellel 3.5.0 Build 18 (Jul 6, 2016)

New in Mellel 3.4.5 Build 4 (Apr 13, 2016)

New in Mellel 3.4.4 Build 7 (Nov 23, 2015)

New in Mellel 3.4.3 Build 2 (Oct 4, 2015)

New in Mellel 3.4.2 Build 2 (Jul 21, 2015)

New in Mellel 3.4.1 Build 7 (Jul 13, 2015)

New in Mellel 3.4.0 Build 15 (Jun 16, 2015)

New in Mellel 3.3.8 Build 3 (Feb 9, 2015)

New in Mellel 3.3.7 Build 5 (Dec 19, 2014)

New in Mellel 3.3.6 Build 5 (Jul 30, 2014)

New in Mellel 3.3.5 Build 5 (Jun 27, 2014)

New in Mellel 3.3.3 Build 4 (May 26, 2014)

New in Mellel 3.3.2 Build 2 (Apr 2, 2014)

New in Mellel 3.3.1 Build 2 (Feb 26, 2014)

New in Mellel 3.3.0 Build 32 (Feb 6, 2014)

New in Mellel 3.3 Build 29 Beta (Jan 23, 2014)

New in Mellel 3.2.7 Build 2 (Nov 14, 2013)

New in Mellel 3.2.6 Build 2 (Oct 28, 2013)

New in Mellel 3.2.5 Build 1 (Oct 14, 2013)

New in Mellel 3.2.4 Build 2 (Sep 10, 2013)

New in Mellel 3.2.3 Build 1 (Aug 13, 2013)

New in Mellel 3.2.2 Build 1 (Jul 5, 2013)

New in Mellel 3.2.1 Build 1 (Jun 21, 2013)

New in Mellel 3.2.0 Build 10 (Jun 5, 2013)

New in Mellel 3.1.3 (Feb 12, 2013)

New in Mellel 3.1.0 (Jan 29, 2013)

New in Mellel 3.0.3 Beta 1 (Jan 26, 2013)

New in Mellel 3.0.2 (Sep 25, 2012)

New in Mellel 3.0.1 (Jul 28, 2012)

New in Mellel 3.0.0 (Jul 12, 2012)

New in Mellel 2.9.2 (May 29, 2012)

New in Mellel 2.9.1 Build 1 (Sep 23, 2011)

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New in Mellel 2.8.2 Build 3 (Mar 23, 2011)

New in Mellel 2.8.1 Build 4 (Feb 23, 2011)

New in Mellel 2.8.0 Build 23 (Jan 22, 2011)

New in Mellel 2.7.3 Build 2 (Feb 16, 2010)

New in Mellel 2.7.1 Build 3 (Oct 15, 2009)

New in Mellel 2.7.0 Build 26 (Sep 16, 2009)

New in Mellel 2.6.1 Build 2 (Feb 2, 2009)

New in Mellel 2.6.0 Build 15 (Jan 20, 2009)

New in Mellel 2.2.7.2 (Feb 18, 2008)