For example, the text expanding feature (called 'glossaries' in Nisus) and Multi-key keyboard shortcuts which allows you to press the command key and then any number of keys for each shortcut. Nisus has also some special features which make the daily writing process easier to handle. Mellel has been surpassed by Nisus Writer Pro which now has much more features: it's scriptable, has macros and two types of inbuilt text expanding features, supports more languages, has much better Find and Replace feature, allows you to create concordances and various types of word lists you can search simultaneously for text in multiple languages, it has support for South Asian languages (which Mellel doesn't have) and it has a powerful Document Manager. It still needs elementary word processing features, such as split view, macros, non-contiguous text selection, shapes, attached captions for images, just to name few. Pages is regularly updated, and each update has new features. Thus you can quickly see where characters and locations appear in the document. (4) For those who write novels and stories a so called "story points" were developed to help keeping track of the plot and its progress. One footnote can be added by the author, for example, another by the translator, etc. This feature is called multiple Note Streams. (3) Can have more than one type of footnotes. (2) Supports live bibliography with Bookends. You can also assign "Remarks" and tags to bookmarks and auto-titles and then filter the outline pane based on your remarks and/or tags. Bookmarks and auto-titles can be shown together in this pane thus you can see at a glance where exactly a certain bookmark is in the document. (…) I'd really appreciate someone taking the time to post specifics." Hope that helps, or that someone who can speak with authority chimes in.This is an answer to dgbmunger (Nov 30 2021) who wrote "I'd like some evidence that for a 300 page scholarly book Mellel is better than Pages. It seemed like whichever I set first, tab or either left hand margin, the other setting would not cross that line. I had the start indent at 15 pt, set the tab to 18, and was then unable to set the start indent to more than 17.99 pt. The tabs can be a fence for margins, too. If I bumped the start indent to 18 pt, the tab jumped to 18.01, presumably because 18.0 points had become no-tab territory. When I set the start indent to 17.9 pt, I could set an 18 pt tab. If I have an indent of 8 pt, a start of 18 pt, and an end of 10 pt., then all tab stops have to be >18 pt from the start of line, and more than 10 points in from the end of the line. Per my observations, Mellel doesn't allow tab stops outside of margins, and that applies to all margins, the start (2nd line), end (the right end, at least in RTL), and indent (the first line). Regarding the tab, I set up a paragraph style with a second line indent of 18 points and discovered a few interesting things.įirst, just as I discovered with table of contents alternate styles, every paragraph style has its own set of tab stops. At least on that occasion I hope I rendered a proper salute. On days when I'm haunted by what a crummy son I was, I bring up that memory. That oxygen tent memory is old and tattered, and I thank God I still have that in my mental archives. Dad had an Underwood from which maybe a quarter million words a year flowed. I reached up and tapped on the oxygen tent, mimicking my Dad's typing. The only memory I have from those days is a dim memory of being in an oxygen tent in a hospital bed looking up at my Dad. When I was a kid i nearly died from respiratory problems. I think I figured out what you're seeing and I can duplicate it, assuming I understand correctly.īest of luck with your pneumonia, by the way.
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