Mellel is an useful word processing utility that targets writers, scholars, as well as multilingual word processing.
Mellel comes with some interesting features like unique paragraph and character styles, as well as citations and bibliography, tabs, and much more.
Mellel is a very reliable and stable word processing utility. Is is also very flexible and easy to figure out the first time.
NOTE: To buy Mellel via the App Store an Apple account is required.
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 ]
· Fixed a bug that caused Mellel to fail opening older .mell files
· Fixed bug that caused long names to become truncated in the template/recent document browser