Mellel is a word processors for Mac OS X, with a special focus on writers, scholars, technical writing and multilingual word processing. Mellel is regularly updated and offers advanced features such as cross-referencing, comments, live bibliography and citations, footnotes and endnotes, advanced multilingual options, and more.
What is new in this release:
- Text boxes: You an now add smart text boxes into Mellel, controlling every aspect of them via a handy pop-over. You can set a text box width and height of a text box, set the padding, the fill colour and transparency, frame type, and colour and corner radius
- Styling within text boxes: You can style text in text boxes, including paragraph and character attributes and styles, lists and so on
- Inline and floating boxes: Text boxes can float or be anchored to a position in the text (inline). You can also flow text around text boxes
- Fitting text boxes width and Height: Make boxes wider or taller to fit the text within it properly
- Smart Snap for text boxes: you can align text boxes to images, to other text boxes, to the page and writing area centre and edges
- Smart Snap for images: you can align images to text boxes, to other images, to the page and writing area centre and edges
- Corner radius for images: allowing you to have the round rect you've always pined for
- Dashed image frames: you can now set the frame to have dashes, dots, etc. as the frame type
- Free Weight: You can now edit the Weight of lines (in notes, columns, images, text boxes, etc.) using either set measurements (hairline to 5pt) or setting any other value you'd like to have there
- Various Improvements: Mellel can now put raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens... OK, not really, but there are numerous under the hood and over the counter improvements making the Mellel experience much smoother
- Fixed Bugs: many, many bugs were securely removed from Mellel, making Mellel more bug-free then ever (if you really miss bugs, you can still find them in other applications, though)
What is new in version 3.4.4:
Improved support for font substitution with Coptic text
Added Coptic, Thai and Lao scripts to secondary font script list
Updated German hyphenation dictionary
Added support for ')' bracketing for citations
Fixed an issue that caused Mellel to crash when closing a window while in fullscreen mode
Fixed an issue when selecting a font family for the first time while in the find/replace fields would result in the family popup menu jumping back to the first menu
Fixed rendering of Thai text in the Outline and other places in the UI
Fixed an issue that caused italics to spread over to the entire citation on the second, third, etc bibliography scans when the final citation starts with italics
Fixed all sorts of issues with setting up and adjusting the markers submenu (edit menu), palette and keyboard shortcuts when the focus is in the find/replace fields
Fixed an issue that caused incorrect text entry when typing Korean fast in big and slow documents.
Fixed an issue that caused the character attribute description in "replace styles" not to include the marker attribute.
Allowing and preserving (not converting to normal text) percent encoded text in URL (if web)
Adjusting zoom level after showing/hiding the palettes in full-screen mode.
Fixed issues that caused bad/mis positioning of palettes when switching to split view on El Capitan and in other cases.What is new in version 3.3.8:
Resolved a problem that caused artifacts to appear when working with longer documents at zoom levels other than 100%.
Fixed a bug that cause Mellel to crash when pressing the arrow keys in the find field under some very specific circumstances.
Fixed a bug that caused the iCloud menu to appear empty sometimes.
Fixes an issue that caused cashes when receiving updates from iCloud.
Fixed some minor memory leaks.
Fixed a bug that caused crashes sometimes with documents containing many citations.What is new in version 3.3.7:
Fixed a few memory leaks.
Fixed an issue that caused Mellel not to apply size selected in the main font size popup (or the Other diglugue) if the size was the same as the size of text at the beginning of the selection.
Fixed an issue where mellel would sometimes crash when clicking parts of the text after editing a Cross reference and possibly other elements such as citations, hyperlinks and so on.
Fixed an issue which would cause bibliography scanning to fail with documents containing oddly formatted XML data for citations.
Fixed a bug that would cause Mellel to crash sometimes (very rarely) when editing documents containing citations.
Fixed a bug that may have caused Mellel to crash when moving the cursor using the arrow key under some rare circumstances.
Corrected "Copy X attributes" menu localisation in Spanish.
Fixed a bug that prevented Mellel from copying text when viewing a document in the "Versions" browser.
Fixed some minor issues causing some Console output when opening the page style editor and editing a header/footer.What is new in version 3.3.6:
- Added support for Traditional Chinese DOS encoding. This fixes an issue that caused some styled Chinese text to become garbled when pasting from scrivener
- Fixes an issue which caused a mysterious "systemParStyle" paragraph style to appear in the paragraph style list after setting the style to a paragraph containing a citation or hyperlink
- Fixes an issue that caused crashes and all sorts of odd behaviour when editing and saving documents that contained empty citations and hyperlinks
- Fixed an issue that would cause crashes and other misbehaviour when editing around inlines that contained track changes while the annotations pane was open
Limitations:
Watermark when printing.
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