Download Mellel 2.2.7.1

Mellel is a word processor for Mac OS X that includes the Latin, Chinese, Japanese, Cyrillic, Arabic, and Hebrew alphabets. supports. According to the developer, the program offers besides the standard possibilities and in contrast to other word processors reliable methods to work with quotes and headers and footnotes. In addition, the package uses an XML-based file format and can handle Microsoft Word documents, OpenType fonts and Unicode. For more information, please refer to this manual in pdf and this page where a comparison with other word processors can be admired. The developers have released version 2.2.7.1 with the following list of changes:

Version 2.2.7.1:

Bug fixes:

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

Version 2.2.7:

New Features:

• OPML Import and Export.
• Table Improvements:
  • Add row and column “in place”
  • Add row when pressing tab in the last cell
  • Equalize cells vertically
• Contextual Menu in ruler.
• Remove all tabs command
• Add Tab Stops dialog

Improvements:

• Improved statistics palette.
• Updated hyphenation dictionaries.
• Enabled Services menu items that replace the selection with an image (Services like LaTeXiT, for example)

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a problem that caused rtf documents containing greek characters exported from Mellel to convert incorrectly when opening with MS Word (Mike Saia)
• Fixed a bug that caused bibliography scan to fail with documents containing empty citations
• Some performance enhancements with longer documents
• Fixed a problem that caused the outline view not to update immediately after changing numbering setups or undoing such changes
• Fixed a bug that caused the style sets window to open with the wrong style set selected when invoked from a full screen mode (Reiner Baur)
• Fixed a problem that caused the document view to sometimes vibrate when clicked (Steve Hodgson)
• Mellel now “digs in” Auto-titles, tables, citations and footnotes when doing “Check spelling” via the spelling palette (Jolin M Warren)
• Mellel now digs in Auto-titles, tables and citations when checking spelling per paragraph (Jolin M Warren)
• Improved error passing when opening documents, avoiding the famous “error: no error” message
• Fixes for Leopard beta compatibility

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