Nope, when you export the document and have numbered equations, the number shoot somewhere way off. In my case, into the middle of other paragraphs with Mellel trying to nicely wrap the text around "(1)" and so forth. So I tried grouping the numbering and the equations.
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Guess what? You cannot select two obects like equation (vector image) and text (numbering in the (1) format) which means Mellel does not support grouping! Or it is somewhere in a convoluted place and I was already sick and tired of that software to look for it thouroughly.Īll this happened on the they of submission. Phew, now I feel better: (i) I have unloaded my frustration with the software, (ii) I warned other scientists trying to write their paper in Mellel. Some more issues I have mentioned in the beginning:ġ. I used Bookends extensively to build my bibliography with Live Bibliography function of Mellel. At some point, I had to change the style of bibliography due to the change of the journal. When I wanted to unscan the document via the icons in the inspector, they were greyed out! Not clickable. After some search, I have found a duplicate function for unscanning under EDIT > BIBLIOGRAPHY. Guess what? That worked! The icon does not work but the menu does! I asked in the support and they say the icons do not work when Live Bibliography is switched on. Trying to do the numbering of equations was a nightmare. Basically, you do not have any option except for adding a new text box which you cannot easily align (no guides), will most likely cut the text if you do not manually expand, and 100% it will jump in some strange place when you try to export to any type of file except PDF. Okay, that does happen in other programs as well. But there, you can group such equation and the number and they stick together. At least, if they moved upon exporting or changes, you can easily adjust just one item. If any of the issues are easily solved in Mellel, I will be more than glad to hear about the solutions. It is, though, 100% not obvious to find.įirst, I'm sorry that you've had such an experience with Mellel. Second, regarding what you've written: I'll assume that most of the "inflating" of your. rtf exported files is due to images (mainly. There are two options to handle those: you can either compress them (as Mellel does on-the-fly when you use the compressed (as opposed to package) format, and as Microsoft Word, Pages, etc. Either way, at some point along the way, the file will ALWAYS inflate to about the file size you've mentioned, unless the images come in a more concise format (like png or a vector based format). You may be able to test this if: Open Mellel's preferences and under the Open and Save check Save Format: Save documents as packages. Now, in the finder, you'll be able to Ctr-click the file and from the context menu open the "package" - and there view the images. You may be able to locate the offending image and change it to a non-lossy image format such as png. Don't forget to uncheck Save format in the preferences when done. Regarding the locationing of equations and numbering (which I assume are the figure captions: I think those will benefit from doing them using auto-titles. To be honest, images and text boxes should be used with caution and as inline entities if the target is to export to MS Word - the later handles those differently (and badly, in my opinion, but that's another matter). In my experience, inserting images in a text handled by any regular text editor is asking for trouble. This is particularly true for the Microsoft Word. I am sure you know this, but you can export as. doc, open it in Word and then save it as. Docx if you wish to deal with this dreaded file format.
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