This is an issue that can happen when you move around a stream in the hierarchy. For example, you can fine-tune your paragraph style for a table of contents format moving around tabs and then save the changes to the style via the paragraph palette directly from the editing pane of the format.įinally, special attention was paid to dealing with invalid formats. One refinement that is subtle but powerful is that you can now add and edit character and paragraph styles directly from the format editor (this was disabled in the past). Another notable change is that instead of the rather cryptic prev# to signify a parent level we're now using the term parent, and when you click on such items to choose which level is used, the actual stream names are shown in the menu.Īnother addition to format editing is the Clear formatting button which allows you to clear all formatting (character and paragraph styling) from a format with one click. The naming is more consistent and the design change of the insert element popup and the elements themselves applies to other areas of the application where such formats are used (cross references and index). The first thing you'll notice is that the "tokens" (placeholders) are drawn differently and that the insert element popup menu illustrates this new look. The format editor itself was revised and refined. The Use a different format for type checkbox was renamed to Use a custom format and was placed outside of the editing area this allows you to rapidly clear the custom formats used in the configuration for a format type by unchecking these checkboxes in succession. To edit a format you can click the "edit" button and the editor will open in-place. The window is also much wider, and this means that you no longer have to guess how things look in the actual document when editing the format. ![]() For example, if you're working on table of contents formatting you can see the Table of Contents formats for all streams at the same time and can spot inconsistencies immediately. This allows you to rapidly make changes across streams. For each format "type" (format for main text, format for table of contents, format for mentions, etc.) there is a tab, and in that tab you can see all formats of this type for all the streams in the configuration. The other tabs are dedicated to the formats. The Streams tab allows you to manipulate the streams and their attributes you can add and delete streams, move them around in the hierarchy and modify their attributes. You'll notice that this screen is now wider and uses multiple tabs. In Mellel 5.1 this screen was renamed, but more importantly, it was completely re-designed in order to make it easier to understand and allow you to work more efficiently.Ĭhoose Insert->Auto-title->Configure Auto-titles to see the new configuration screen. In the past, to setup/configure Auto-titles you would choose Insert->Auto-title->Edit title flows and see the screen that used to be called informally "the nuclear reactor" (because of all the buttons). New User Interface to Configure Auto-titles If your document is only two levels deep, you can have only two Auto-title streams and you won't have to see or deal with an extra 8 unused levels that get in your way. The new system enables very complex schemes but also makes it easy to make simple schemes without any extra baggage. This template has unnumbered streams for front (and back) matter (introduction, acknowledgments etc) sections, numbered streams for normal chapter and subchapter sections and additional numbered streams for appendix and sub-appendix sections. You can find an example for this structure in the new Technical Book factory template. ![]() This allows you to setup a structure where streams on the same "level" have different formatting or numbering and each can have its own sub-streams. With Mellel 5.1 you can freely add, remove and move around the flows (which are now named Streams) to form any structure or hierarchy. Tag flows could be added, removed and moved around in the hierarchy but the hierarchy was still very rigid. Since the dawn of ages, Mellel's Auto-titles feature was based on a single hierarchy of 10 levels, each level had an Auto-title flow whose attributes could be changed but the hierarchy was fixed and the relationship of flows to each other was either of a parent or a child. ![]() New Features in Mellel 5.1 Multiple Hierarchy Chains
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