- #MELLEL VS NISUS WRITER PRO FOR MAC#
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- #MELLEL VS NISUS WRITER PRO FULL#
- #MELLEL VS NISUS WRITER PRO PRO#
Personally I write my drafts in Scrivener and exports the document into Pages for editing and layout.
#MELLEL VS NISUS WRITER PRO PRO#
Nisus Writer Pro uses the rtf format, which can be read by almost any word processor out there. If you just need a good academic word processor, Mellel is another option, though I personally chose not to use it as it handles. On the Mac side, however, you find so many great alternatives that it is really worth considering if Microsoft Office is the best for you. On the Windows side, it appears to me that no one ever questions if you really need Microsoft Office – it's almost considered a must-have. Bibliographic software, such as Bookends (far superior to Endnote) works well with Pages, and iWork just integrates really well with iLife and the native OS X apps.
Styles are handled in a much simpler way and if you have to include graphics or images in your work, Pages gives you better control over the visual elements than Word does. As I'm a grad student in the humanities, a word processor is what I need the most, and Pages is a much more stable, responsive and straightforward application compared to Word. While I own both suites (terrible waste of money!), I now only use iWork (after '09 came out). iWork creates better looking documents/spreadsheets/presentations, and while there is, afterall, is slight learning curve, it's pretty easy to get used to. If you only casually need to use productivity apps, there is no doubt that iWork will do the job. It’s now three months since you wrote your last status message.It really depends on your needs.
#MELLEL VS NISUS WRITER PRO DRIVER#
A more precise date by which to expect release of even a beta version of a OpenOffice (or Nisus, or Mellel, or…) driver would be a good start. I think that’s a bad choice for both of us, and I think it belies a great deal of the spirit and much of the explicit language you use to tout the power and utility of EndNote. I know you cannot create a separate price structure depending on how much of the product a user can exploit, so I am left with the choice of spending more for a crippled product, or waiting until you find the resources and motivation to speed along the development cycle.
#MELLEL VS NISUS WRITER PRO FULL#
I would be paying for the full utility of X4 with the cost of the upgrade, and I would be denied a significant piece of that utility. There are better word processors for my purposes than Word… I resent that you turn to the needs of users like myself last. It’s a question of quality and product design. The “new” version apparently will not be released until well into 2011, and then I will still avoid it (though I am likely to upgrade, as the utility for legacy documents justifies the small investment).
#MELLEL VS NISUS WRITER PRO FOR MAC#
I already own MS Office for Mac in its current version. There is nothing standard about Microsoft Word except for its ubiquity. Surely you can make faster progress than you have demonstrated to allow users like me (who are numerous, especially in certain disciplines) use your product most productively with alternative workflow strategies than the so-called de facto “standard” I stopped using Word years ago and I find it a major defect in any product that its use, as a general or generic capability for a task set, is restricted to specific proprietary products from third parties (in this case, two of the largest vendors in this market: Microsoft and Apple). One impediment for me in doing so is the dilatory effort at creating this plug-in or driver for OpenOffice, or any other word processor (other than Apple’s product) than Microsoft Word. I just received your email for upgrading to X4 (from X3 in my case). I’ve been a licensed user of EndNote since v.2