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Mellel 6.2
Mellel 6.2 introduces several key improvements and enhancements in bibliography and citations, word format support, equations, table of contents in PDF and Mandaic script support.
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New Features in Mellel 6.2

Bibliography Enhancements

The Bibliography palette's citations in document is now much more useful and easy to use, it shows you all the citations in the document, in order of appearance. Clicking an citation in the list will navigate to the citation location in the document and double-clicking will open it for editing. You can also option click to navigate into the reference in Bookends and a handy context menu allows you explicit access to these options.

The citation editing dialog also received some attention with a clearer layout a couple of esoteric (and rather confusing) options were removed.

Word Format Support For Comments

Mellel supported comments in RTF format for a long time, but with word format (aka docx) this support has been lacking, to the puzzlement of many. With Mellel 6.2 this omittance has been fixed. Comments in docx documents are imported into Mellel and comments in Mellel documents are exported to docx documents.

Better Equations

Mellel equations, added to Mellel in version 6.1, are crisp and nice and that is a reason to rejoice but some tiny annoyance is lurking in the background, literally.

You see, the equations produced by the equation panel have a white background. Usually this is not big deal as the vast majority of documents have a white background anyway, but it does pose some issues in the occasion you need your fancy math on a non-white background.

Mellel 6.2 comes with the obvious solution to this issue - equations now get a transparent background and can fit in with any background color.

This gives us another advantage which is the way equations look in dark mode, we avoided giving equations the dark mode treatment of reversing the color (white on black) because the background of the equation would usually not translate to the same color as the page background. With transparent background equations we can safely reverse the color and the results are very pleasing to the eye.

Improved Table of Contents

Mellel tables of contents are beautiful, and you can customize them to the hilt, which is cool. When you export to PDF, the page numbers in the TOC serve as links to the corresponding section in the document, also cool. However, since only the page numbers in the TOC respond to the click, it makes it hard to target and therefore use. Mellel 6.2 brings a subtle but important improvement in that front. Instead of just the page number, the whole table of contents line is clickable which makes them much more usable and easy to discover.

Mandaic Script Support

This is great news to researches and scholars who wish to incorporate Mandaic texts into their Mellel document as Mellel 6.2 now supports rendering Mandaic text correctly, this includes the right-to-left ordering as well as using the correct forms of the letters depending on their position in the word.

New Features in Mellel 6.1

Equation Panel

Based on the open-source equation rendering engine MathJax, the Equation panel allows you to define an equation using LaTeX math notation and render it into a smooth PDF image inserted into your document. Using the Equation panel you can also set the equation font size, baseline position — which defines the vertical position of the equation relative to the surrounding text — and access the equation library.

Equation Library

You can use the equation library to store and recall frequently used equations. The Equation panel Library popup gives you access to the stored equations and allows you to save new or modified equations.

Revised Blank Templates

Mellel's blank templates now feature Equation caption Auto-title stream. You can use the stream to number equations in your document.

New Features in Mellel 6.0

Split View

Using the split view feature you can view and edit two different parts of your document. Whether you are translating, writing commentary, or comparing texts, the split view feature is another invaluable addition to your Mellel tool chest. Click the Toggle Split View button to turn it on and your view becomes two (we call these aspects), each aspect can be scrolled independently and maintains its own selection and view settings. Done for the day? Your view settings are saved to the document and you can pick up exactly where you left of the next time.

Dark Mode

Despite the name, there nothing sinister in Mellel's dark mode, or, as Apple likes to call it, Dark Appearance. If you enjoy light text on a dark background, Mellel can give you just that. Mellel's beautiful dark appearance is calm and cool and gives you a distraction free work environment that lets you concentrate on your text. And for those who prefer to have their user interface dark and their document content as it is, there's a preference option just for that. It is your choice.

Better Find and Replace

Mellel's powerful find and replace abilities just got better. You can now find text and convert it, or part of it, into an Auto-title, Citation, Note (footnote or endnote) or a Hyperlink. Sounds complicated? Fear not, all you need to do is to enter the text to find Find field and then insert an Insert Auto-title (or Insert Note or, Insert Citation, you get the idea) into the Replace field and click Replace. Need more power than that? Using groups and back-references you can define the content of the Auto-title (or Note, or Citation etc.) to be a part of the found expression, or just any text you type. You can use these new replace elements in your ad-hoc searches, saved Find Actions and Find Sets.

Better Indexing

Mellel's unique and flexible Index feature also received some well deserved attention in Mellel 6. It is now possible to import and export index records, which allows you to move indexes between documents or rapidly create an index based on a word list. Using the new Move to Index command you can now transfer index records from one index to another in the same document and you can now conveniently insert an index mark first and then choose the index record (rather than the other way around). Finally, we've added an option to control whether references to index marks in footnotes and endnotes will refer to the note text location or the note reference location.

Outline Export

This much requested feature gives Mellel's amazing outline an extra edge. No need to awkwardly export to OPML and then hope for the best, you can simply export the outline to a new Mellel document, with or without the remarks, and you can even choose not to save the exported document to disk, in case you need a quick printout of the outline. Simple and easy to use.

Batch Insert Auto-title

This is a true gem, simple and to the point. Ever wanted to quickly convert a formatted document to a full fledged Mellel document with Auto-titles? Now you can in a matter of a couple of clicks. Select the text heading, select the Auto-title stream, and click the lovely "Batch Insert" button. Mellel will take all titles (based on the character style applied) and convert them to Auto-title.

The Small Details

Along with the many big changes, a lot of fine-tuning and small-but-important additions were made. In the Outline - you can now expand and collapse items using the arrow keys, navigation scrolls to show the Auto-title at the top of the view and the current position in the document is reflected much more accurately. In tables - commands are now included in the Edit menu, allowing assignment of keyboard shortcuts to your favorite table commands. In the Edit Reference dialog you can navigate using tabs and finally, numbering options (page numbers, footnote numbers, Auto-titles etc.) are now sporting much more consistent naming and an additional numbering method: Hebrew (No Gershayim).
And of-course, many bugs were squashed.

Release Notes

Mellel 6.2.0 (December 10th 2024)

Mellel 6.1.2 (November 19th 2024)

Mellel 6.1.1 (November 9th 2024)

Mellel 6.1.0 (November 7th 2024)

Mellel 6.0.7 (October 2nd 2024)

Mellel 6.0.6 (August 18 2024)

Mellel 6.0.5 (July 17 2024)

Mellel 6.0.4 (May 26 2024)

Mellel 6.0.3 (March 1st 2024)

Mellel 6.0.2 (February 12 2024)

Mellel 6.0.1 (January 3rd 2024)

Mellel 6.0.0 (December 14th 2023)

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