| Developer(s) | RedleX |
|---|---|
| Stable release | |
| Written in | |
| Operating system | Mac OS X |
| Type | Word processing |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | www.mellel.com |
Durbrow January 2, 2008 - 11:47 EST #1 I was curious whether you use WriteRoom or BBEdit for your first draft ACADEMIC writing and why Mellel may not be suitable or comfortable for first draft writing. Thanks for the good review. MJ Valente January 2, 2008 - 12:02 EST #2 I'm also using Mellel as my thesis editor and indeed I find it very. Mellel has always been my favorite wordprocessor and Mellel 4.2 has notably enhanced its 'table' features. Its developer is dedicated to make it better and better. He listens to his customers' suggestions and carries them out without fail. What is so great in this process is that he doesn't charge extra fees for all his hard work. At $49 for a single user license, Mellel may be the best word processing value in the Mac OS X world. Macworld's buying advice. Mellel 2.6.1 seems ideally suited to the needs of folks on tight.
Mellel (מלל, the Hebrew for 'text') is a word processor for Mac OS X, developed since 2002 and marketed as especially suited for technical and academic writers, and for writers with long, complex documents. It is made by Mellel AAR, a small software company. New features are added to the program every few months, many of which come from user suggestions. Its closest competitor is Nisus Writer Pro.
One remarkable feature present in Mellel is its multilanguage support. Languages with non-Latin alphabets, including Arabic, Syriac, Hebrew, Greek, Korean or Persian, for example, are handled well due to the fact that Mellel sports its own text engine, that is not reliant on macOS text support, and in addition support for Unicode and OpenType fonts.
Mellel also presents a feature set suitable for working with long and complex documents, in order to match the needs of scholars and technical writers. Mellel has a distinctive way of handling footnotes and endnotes, allowing creation of numerous 'streams' of notes in a single document. This feature allows including, three or more types of footnotes at the same time (e.g., editor notes, translator notes, endnotes, regular notes, etc.). Cross-references are also dealt with in a singular way by Mellel. The software offers support for Outline, based on headings in the document text. With Mellel 4.0 the software added an Index tool which according to the company website 'rivals dedicated Index applications'.[1] Mellel has a unique way of handling styles, which are also organised as part of a style set, that can be utilised by multiple documents. Its Replace Styles feature is able to reformat a large amount of text scattered throughout a document (a feature also present in OpenOffice.org Writer and in Nisus Writer for Mac OS Classic). Polarr 1 3 1 – lightweight and professional photo editor.
Due to its unique approach to implementing many of its features, Mellel originally lacked full compatibility with standard word processors, but--as of July 2020--Mellel exports accurately to .docx and to ePub according to the developer's website. From the outset, Mellel has exported accurately to .pdf.
Mellel provides tight integration with Bookends and Sente, bibliographical tools for managing citations, including Live Bibliography (instant updates of Bibliography when one adds a citation).
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A version of Mellel is available for the iPad.
Owners of Mellel announced in January 2011 that they will give free updates for life for anyone who will purchase the application outside the Mac App Store. As per the company, this policy was dropped in February 2014.[2] With the release of Mellel 4.0 Mellel AAR, the developer, announced that a for fee upgrade policy was re-instated (two years of free updates). This policy does not apply to users who've purchased Mellel during the 'lifetime' period.
The current version of Mellel, 5.0, reportedly supports MacOS 10.7X or later. Although Mellel is compatible with OS 10.15 Catalina, users may not want to upgrade to Catalina if, e.g., they use MathMagic or MathType to insert equations. These are not 64 bit compatible as of July 2020.
See also[edit]
- MathMagic equation editor for Mellel, supporting automatic baseline alignment
- MathType equation editor for Mellel.
- Bookends bibliographic program, tightly integrated with Mellel
References[edit]
- ^https://www.mellel.com/mellel/
- ^https://www.mellel.com/blog/a-note-about-lifetime-of-free-updates/
External links[edit]
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Collections 4 2 – organize your desktop icons without. Mellel has posted Mellel 4.2.5, fixing a bug that caused crashes with some documents when running macOS 10.15 Catalina. In particular, the way that Catalina modifies the behavior for reporting areas that require mouse cursor shape adjustment (switching from an arrow to an I-beam) caused a crash in some Mellel documents with elaborate tables. Version 4.2.5 addresses this issue and improves overall mouse adjustment and accuracy. ($49 new from Mellel and the Mac App Store, free update, 82.5 MB, release notes, macOS 10.6+)
