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Mellel Auto-titles Display

Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2009 2:47 pm
by gke
A minor issue, but perhaps smth that can be solved: auto-titles in attached Mellel documents are not displayed in the BE preview pane.

Re: Mellel Auto-titles Display

Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2009 5:37 pm
by Jon
Bookends doesn't actually try to reproduce attached Mellel documents. It just shows the body of the text, which is fine for simple notes and other purposes. It wasn't my intention to actually parse Mellel documents and extract all textual elements.

If you want to see the Mellel document correctly formatted, just right-click on it in Bookends and select "Open Attachment".

Jon
Sonny Software

Re: Mellel Auto-titles Display

Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 10:13 am
by gke
Sure, opening the attachment is of course possible, it would just be nice to be able to use the preview pane for a quick skimming through your notes. I use Mellel for taking notes because its auto-titles feature allow one to quickly navigate through a long set of notes with the help of the Outline pane. The downside of it is that in the BE preview pane you lose all the Chapter headers etc. So, what I meant was just a way of being able to "see" these text elements - just as unformatted text. Whether this is worth the effort depends entirely on the amount of work involved in implementing this feature - if it is a relatively simple thing, it might be worth it, otherwise probably not.

Re: Mellel Auto-titles Display

Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 10:15 am
by Jon
I can take a look at it and see, but parsing XML is rarely simple. :-)

Jon
Sonny Software

Re: Mellel Auto-titles Display

Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 11:04 am
by gke
Great, Jon, thanks a lot, hope it turns out to be simple this time!

Re: Mellel Auto-titles Display

Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 9:49 am
by Jon
Hi, it turned out to be rather straightforward. You'll be able to see auto-titles as well as the text in attached Mellel documents in the next update.

Jon
Sonny Software

Re: Mellel Auto-titles Display

Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 4:51 pm
by ozean
yay! :D

Re: Mellel Auto-titles Display

Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 6:09 am
by gke
Great! Thanks a lot for the effort, Jon!