![]() Mellel has issues with cocoAspelt, in Nisus it works perfectly. Fact is, it's much easier and more straightforward to do this in Nisus. The arguments brought forward in favor of Mellel (see for example the testimonials on YouTube) do not bear close scrutiny: (1) it's certainly not easier to combine many different languages in one document with Mellel than in Nisus. Nisus, on the contrary, can turn such text instantly into headings with appropriate levels and thus make them visible in the Navigator (= Outline in Mellel.) No macros. You must do it manually … one by one, one after the other. If such a document has all headings written in UPPERCASE (or in blue, or in italics… or whatever), there is no way to select all parts in one go and then turn them into AutoTitles. This, for example, makes it difficult to edit documents that you have not created yourself or you have downloaded from the Internet. Just three, random examples: no multipart selection, also called “noncontiguous selection”. For me, the disadvantages outweigh the advantages. ![]() This is about everything I can think of in favor of Mellel, apart from the overall appealing interface, that is. It's nice to have them, but for scholarly papers and books in the humanities such embellishments are not needed. Mellel has a few extra typographical frills when it comes to creating character styles. One can also focus on certain parts of the outline and hide others that are momentarily not needed. The user can also enter comments into bookmarks, so called "Remarks" in Mellel's parlance, which can be made visible in the Outline, but are not printed. The strength of Mellel lies indeed in the Outline which allows the user to view (colored) bookmarks and AutoTitles simultaneously (Nisus can't do that). Is the main quality of Mellel just for structuring a book and be confident with voluminous documents? I am not sure I am willing to spend so much time on learning the way this app works. Scrivener and Ulysses are easier to get started with and also powerful in their own ways and might be more suited to these use scenarios. I tend to agree that the learning curve for Mellel is steep, and I'm not sure I would recommend it to someone whose work involved producing shorter pieces of text or who writes primarily for online publication. Mellel's capabilities in cross-referencing, auto-titling and indexing are also pretty extraordinary. I don't think there is anything else out there to compare with Mellel's integration with Bookends for dealing with references. To answer Patrick's point, yes, I think the main strength of Mellel is that it's powerful enough to handle writing long, structured documents such as doctoral dissertations or academic books. I haven't used the glossaries feature of Nisus, but perhaps this can be replicated in Typinator? ![]() I am just using Typinator as an auto-correct tool, but I believe that it's capable of much more. Are you tired of typing your name, e-mail address, or other words or phrases again and again? Do you often introduce typos when typing text? Typinator automates the process of inserting frequently used text and graphics and auto-corrects your typos.For what it's worth, I'm using Typinator with Mellel and am happy with the way they work together. quickly type greeting phrases, set up a list of standard text fragments to be used in e-mail replies, insert the current date and/or time in arbitrary formats with a few keystrokes, auto-correct your most frequent typos in all applications system-wide, predefined sets for auto-correction, HTML, Filemaker functions, import snippets from other typing utilities, including Textpander, TextExpander, and TypeIt4Me, insert pictures, such as smilies or bullets, insert Unicode symbols by typing a few special regular characters (e.g., type -> to insert an arrow symbol), define shorthands for frequently used Unix commands, quickly create templates for code fragments, if you are a programmer, and moreĪutomates typing of frequently used text. Save your time and annoyance and let Typinator type repeating texts and pictures for you. Drag-and-drop import from Textpander, TextExpander, and TypeIt4Me makes migration to Typinator a no-brainer. Usage is even easier - Whenever you type one of these abbreviations in an arbitrary application, Typinator inserts the corresponding replacement. Configuration is easy - You just define abbreviations and their replacement text or picture. Have you ever experienced the tedium and frustration of having to repeatedly type your name, e-mail address, home page url, and other words or phrases again, again and again? Or do you frequently need to quickly insert images like your signature, location plan, or company logo into documents? Do you often introduce errors when retyping standard business text? Typinator boosts your productivity and eliminates errors by automating the process of inserting frequently used text and graphics and and auto-correcting typos and misspelled words. ![]()
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