Mellel is one of the leading word processors for Mac OS X, with a special focus on scholars, writers, technical writing and multilingual word processing.

Designed for scholars and writers, it offers innovative page, paragraph, and character styles, tables. headers and footers, citations and bibliography, tabs, and much more.

As a scholar, educator or student, there are several features and qualities you value more than others in a word processor. Here, we'll try to provide information about those features and qualities which we think will be the most important to you deciding whether Mellel fits your requirements.

If you're writing a novel, a long paper, a technical document or a guide you probably require your word processor to be stable, reliable, flexible, easy to work with, and of course to have the features you need.

With the first two, your choice is clear. Mellel is the most stable and reliable word processor on the market today, for either Mac OS X or any other platform. We're not bragging, just stating the facts: Mellel is so stable and reliable because we work very hard to make it so.

Mellel is also very flexible and easy to work with. If you're accustomed to working with MS Word or one of its clones, you may find Mellel a bit difficult to figure at first. Mellel improved on MS Word and co. and by that also changed the way some things are done. The adjustment period will be short, we can assure you. It doesn't take long to adjust to a better method of working.

Lastly, Mellel offers many of the feature which make long document writing both possible and easy. In fact, this is exactly where Mellel excels.

Mellel is the leading multilingual word processor for Mac OS X. It leads not only in the number of languages it supports but also, and more importantly, in the breadth and the depth of the support it provides. With some languages, it's the only real option. With others, it is simply better.

Mellel is a powerful word processor. It is also a very simple word processor, following the simple 5 points Dr. SEUSS system: Stability, Efficiency, Usability, Simplicity and Style.

Here are some key features of "Mellel":

General:
· Tables.
· Bulleted and numbered lists.
· Find and Replace.
· Hyphenation.
· Columns.
· MS Word import and export.
· RTF import and export.
· Plain Text import and export.
· Insert special characters.
· Live document statistics (word count).
· Image placing and resizing.
· Document setup and info.
· Document navigation.
· Text selection and navigation.
· OS X services support.
· Spelling.
· Zoom in and out.
· Smart Quotes supporting multiple languages.
· Smart drag and drop.

Long Document management:
· Outline.
· Table of contents.
· Auto titles.
· Mentions (reference to headings in header/footer.
· Keep with, keep with next.
· Unlimited number of numberings for equations, figures, tables, etc.

Styles:
· Paragraph styles.
· Character styles.
· Page styles.
· Rulers, margins and indents.
· Headers and footers (unlimited number in each document).
· Style variations (sub-styles).
· Replace Paragraph and Character Styles option.
· Tabs and tab leads.
· Copy special for character and paragraph styles.

Multilingual support:
· Export and import to RTF.
· Export and import to .doc.
· Full Unicode support.
· Chinese, Japanese and Korean input support.
· Full Arabic and Persian support.
· Full Hebrew support.
· Full Greek and Coptic support.
· Full support for Cyrillic languages.
· Full Syriac support.
· Special setup for writing in multiple languages.
· Export using 21 different language encodings (text).
· Import using 21 different language encodings (text).
· Ancient language support (Thaana, Etruscan, etc.).

Footnotes and endnotes:
· Footnotes, endnotes and below text notes.
· Multiple streams (chains) of notes with each document.
· Precise control of every note aspect (size, positioning, separator, etc.).

User Interface:
· Beautiful and easy-to-use interface.
· Regular and compact view.
· Innovative palettes to organise your work.
· Interface organised to increase efficient and simplicity of work.

Limitations:

· 30 days trial period.
· The printed documents will display a watermark.
· Delay screen at startup.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

Improvements:
· Rtf export of floating images, rtf export of inline images with a wrap
· Updated Latvian hyphenation dictionary
· updated "Deutsch (reformiert)" hyphenation dictionary
· When resizing images, minimum size is limited to 12x12 points, to ensure a manageable and visible image, when opening older documents, 12x12 minimum image size is enforced
· Added tool-tips to various wrap around options in "Object" palette and image editing dialogue
· Caret is now drawn in either black or white depending on which colour will be the most contrasting to the background colour
· Added Finnish localisation
· More predictable show first page footer/header check-box behaviour. When setting the Show Header or Show Footer for even or add pages, show first page header/footer check-box is automatically checked or unchecked
· Hebrew interface fixes: Fixed problems with page palette and page style editor tabs in Hebrew interface. Auto-title sheet - main format tab is now selected when opening the document. Statistics palette is symmetrized.
· Hebrew interface: lists in the palettes (Character style palette, Paragraph Style palette, marker palette, bibliography palette are now drawn RTL when in Hebrew interface

Bug fixes:
· Fixed a bug under 10.4 (Tiger) that caused Mellel to crash when scrolling the document window
· Fixed a bug that caused dragging text clippings to the document window to fail
· Fixed a problem that caused order of footnotes to get mangled sometimes
· Localisation fixes
· Updated the Kagi Registration Module. This should resolve some issues with registration under 10.4 (Tiger)
· Fixed a bug that caused Mellel to hang when rendering documents width floating images whose wrapping is "skip" under OS 10.4 (Tiger)
· Fixed a bug that caused floating images placed over table to be inserted in the middle of a table when converted to an inline image
· Fixed a bug that caused section breaks following a column break to force an unnecessary page break
· Fixed a bug that caused strange selection behaviour in documents containing citations marked as "Exclude from final document" after a bibliography scan
· Fixed a bug that caused dragging outline items to the bottom of the outline to fail
· Fixed a bug that caused inline images drawing to refresh incorrectly when the image is at the bottom of a column and adding lines above it
· Paragraph and Character style palettes are disabled when no document is opened
· Fixed an issue that caused the page palette tabs to be adjusted improperly when initially opening the program
· Fixed a bug that caused documents to open sometimes with a bad title
· Fixed a bug that caused lists ending a page to cause lists on the next page to continue the list numbering even thought a non list line/lines separate the two
· Fixed a bug that caused undo to take too long when undoing changes at the end of the document