I’m cross-posting this message in the Mellel and Bookend forums to point out a somewhat frustrating issue. Because of Mellel’s distinction between ad hoc formatting and style variations, any formatted text Bookend sends to Mellel is prone to lose all formatting if there is any subsequent change in Mellel’s styles. This is a big issue if I want to change a style ever so slightly, because it means I may end up with, say, vanished italics in all citations and references. Is there any workaround anyone knows, short of re-scanning or applying style variations by hand to Bookends references?
Wishful thought: Is this not something both developers could work out as part of tighter integration between the two applications?