Read texts, edit them and write documents in the word processor supporting files with complex structures including books, manuscripts, dissertations, etc. Import of old-style fonts into files with modern formats is possible. Writing bi-directional texts is possible.
Mellel is a word-processor for Mac OS X built for long texts. In other words, it was specifically designed to help people who need to create long text documents. Thus, it has features and the design that suits those users best. On their website, the developers of Mellel list a few of the uses this app might help for. Those uses include research and education, creative and technical writing, multilingual documents, and well, writing in general. For each of the uses I just mentioned, there is a list of relevant features. Most of those features, you will probably find in other word-processors, though.
My first impression of the user interface was that it lets you focus on writing. Thus, the user interface is very simple and it doesn't use any bright colors. There are two elements that make up the user interface. The actual page and the controls, where you type and preview your text, and a control panel with an array of different settings.
All the features that I am accustomed to seeing in word processors were there, including track changes, table support, bibliography, styles, etc. You can of course easily type and change your text and insert images, but if you are going to pay for this app, you might as well buy it for one of the advanced features.
v3.0 [Jun 26, 2012]
- Fixed a problem that caused Mellel to freeze sometimes when entering the version browser.
- Fixed a problem that casued some characters in the final citation to appear doubled after a bibliography scan.
- Palettes are now grouped in a single heap when presented on smaller screens (i.e MacBook Air 11'')
- Consolidated Help menu links
- Fixed an issue that caused double clicking or clicking the first bookmark in the outline view not to jump to the bookmark location or open it for editing like it does when clicking/double clicking the other bookmarks
- Fixed a problem that caused the align and direction buttons to present in the wrong place when the selection was a floating image
- Fixed a problem that caused Mellel to ignore editing of citations if the editing including deleting the whole temp citation text
- Retina images for tab well and style well
- Fixed a problem that caused "verify citations" scans with document containing empty citations to corrupt the citations by offsetting each citation to the next citation location.
- Changed checkbox "Paragraph Ruler" to "Ruler" in Preferences/Show Options/General
- restored command+Y as switch to reference database shortcut
- Updated application icon
- Fixes an issue that caused the blinking insertion point to appear in more then one window under certain conditions.
- Fixed an issue that caused a long pause after dragging citations from bookends while live bibliography was on.
- Fixed an issue that caused the document view to stick to the left when moving the window from screen to screen.
- Fixed a problem that casued the QuickLook plug in to fail showing pre 3.0 files
- Fixed a problem that caused the spotlight importer to malfunction under OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
