![]() Nisus has no two pages view Mellel has two up, four up and a spread view. Working with long documents with many footnotes was a nightmare (not to say altogether impossible) in Nisus 1 in Nisus 2 the delays when moving around the cursor are acceptable, once a table of contents has been created in the navigation pane. But let me add that in this respect too the upgrade to version 2 is a giant step into the right direction. etc., Mellel is still clearly the better choice. for working with very long and complicated documents with many hundreds of footnotes etc. ![]() On the other hand, I must say that in some respects Mellel is still superior to Nisus: Not everyone will need all those features, but they are all there, without being obtrusive. Nisus 2.0 is a very good upgrade, and now the application has a whole range of features which are still lacking in Mellel: besides the ones you mention, there are for instance watermarks, a vertical ruler (which for some seems to be very important), floating text boxes, multiple clipboards. While Nisus does not have the superior RTL text support that Mellel offers, I believe that Nisus truly deserves investigation if you do not need Arabic or Hebraic text I agree that for those who don't write in languages like Arabic, Hebraic, Farsi etc., Nisus is a very attractive choice. Other features that have often been requested of Mellel that are present in Nisus include paragraph/line numbering, indexing, true multi-lingual spellchecking, and several others. Hyperlinks can be inserted between different places in the text, or to other files or websites. Images can be linked: an embedded image is a reference to a real file, and when that file updates, the embedded image dynamically updates, too. Also, comments can be exported as part of the PDF, which will show up as a PDF notation.Īlso, Nisus's PDF export generates a TOC in the PDF, as well as clickable hyperlinks between references. Nisus Writer Pro supports comments with track changes, something Mellel lacks. But certainly, many people will disagree, and I'm glad for that because Nisus is great. I can't see what else-from my perspective (professor in the humanities) the Nisus updates have to offer me. Shmulik wrote:We already have track changes! And I really like its implementation in Mellel, personally. So in a sense, I like to see Mellel maintain its idiosyncratic path, since I don't need from it a replacement for Word (which seems to be much the path pursued by Nisus). It seems that now I use Mellel for things like book reviews, letters, cv, syllabi, and the rest-manuscripts scholarship, lecture notes and lesson plans-mostly happens in Scrivener, with an export for final formatting in the case of manuscripts. This probably has to do with Word 2011 being moderately tolerable for the little time I spend using it. More and more, I use Word for what I used to use Nisus (putting everything into standard fonts/formats, final proofing) before sending an article off to a journal (everyone is going to open it in Word, may as well send a. We already have track changes! And I really like its implementation in Mellel, personally.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
Details
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |