![]() Footnotes seem to be causing the biggest problems and un-justifys the text by shortening line-endings (like Appleworks), but footnotes also alter the line spacing in documents too. My document looks ugly because of formatting & spacing problems, despite my best attempts to alter prefs and/or re-format my document to give it a more polished look. NWE for OSX, however, is a disappointment. Even the lesser (freeware) version was good enough to write a number of report and research assignments etc. ![]() Used this in OS Classic days as an alternative to MS Word and loved it. Still if Word compatability is needed, Nisus has it over Mellel ++ otherwise they both have something to offer. You can set it to drop references into the Nisus doc and as the default format is rtf, Bookends can scan it quickly to make a formatted doc and bibliography this is a 2 step process whereas Mellel is 1-step. Shuddering with relief when that's done, I return to Nisus and it does most of what i want easily.įor bibliographic databases, I use Bookends. For those occasions I open Word in windoze under parallels (runs 1000% faster than word in OSX ever did). The only reason I ever need M$ word is when I am receiving or am required to track changes. Nisus however, opens word files as though they were native, and saves them out the same way without complicated exporting. I have Mellel which is quite nice but it doesn't work smoothly in terms of importing the lingua frnca (M$ word files). I had a meltdown with M$ Word on a Macbook and I just can't get it to run (bound to be font corruption, but alas can't fix it). The only things that I don't like are related to the interface design, for example the round beveled look of the ruler and tools section is very outdated now, a boring all-grey mix of alien spaceship ("aqua"-style) or early iTunes versions ("metal"-style).īut besides that Mellel has the best combination of features for me, so my money goes to them. No soft hyphen! So only usable for some very short texts, best freeware I've seen for many many years - of course I keep an eye on it) Bean (really fanstatic freeware, but based on Apples buggy text-engine. AbiWord (Many bugs and no updates the last 2 years, I think they don't support the Mac anymore) Papyrus (very ugly, carbon, no real testdrive possible - crippled trial version, but some interesting features - I keep an eye on it) but I exspect the next versions will be much better) Pages (Again no soft hyphen!, occasionally crashes and after a while gets very slow. Mariner Write (really bad font display/spacing for many years now, only english, carbon - so it needs to be rewritten for future OSX releases, will they do that? I'm unsure.) Nisus (Nearest competitor but Nisus doesn't support soft hyphen!, I simply cannot work without soft hyphen.), for me Neo Office is the best of these beasts.) Mellel is not bloated like all the "Office" suites (Neo, OO, MS, are all to slow. The last days I've tested many word processors and I found Mellel to be the best so far, Changed: using the forward delete key (DEL) in a table will clear the cell contents instead of deleting cells.Fixed: certain changes in the Style Sheet view did not correctly update the palettes.Fixed: redefining a style from the selection can incorrectly add a font override.Fixed copy/paste of paragraph styles with certain list styles can trigger superfluous text layout.Fixed: some areas did not treat a Control + left click as a secondary/right click.Fixed: possible Page View crashes and hangs.Fixed: Document Manager group listing can initially incorrectly clip names.Fixed: changing the list bullet in a regular document view can incorrectly apply a blank/empty list bullet.Added: Open Recent menu shows checkmarks next to already opened files.Fixed: macOS text translation menu is unavailable when selection spans multiple paragraphs.Fixed: zero-length selections (aka: insertion points) are not restored when reopening files.Fixed: changing to Style View and back should preserve the scroll location.Fixed: improved compatibility with beach-themed versions of macOS. ![]()
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