The demands of writing academic reports, dissertations and thesis differ
considerably from many other types of writing. Scholars, creative writers and
technical writers often need something a bit more powerful to annotate, cross
reference and footnote their texts, which is what Mellel tries to offer.
Mellel is widely regarded as an excellent word processor by academics and
technical writers so from the start, you know you're dealing with a pretty
good product. It's not only suitable for academic and technical writers
though - it offers those writing novels and plays an equally powerful tool.
One of Mellel's major advantages over similar products is that it features
multilingual support or writing bi-directional text, meaning it's suitable
for Arabic, Persian, Hebrew and Syriac. Mellel is praised by its devoted
users for ease of use in cross referencing, footnoting and all round general
annotation. The user forum is also a thriving place where any problem you
encounter can probably be solved. On the downside, Mellel doesn't have any
way to track changes, which is obviously a pain when collaborating on texts.
In addition, the program has been criticized for poor results when importing
text from Word. Also, there apparently seems to be no way to undo changes
after a save has been made, so be very careful that you're happy with a
document before saving it. *Mellel is a very impressive and powerful word
processor for all those that engage in serious academic or creative writing
and need something a bit more helpful and tailored than Word.*Download
*Mellel 3.0.2* in Softonic
