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Useful Stuff: Mellel

Useful Stuff: Mellel

Who is next? Mellel for Mac OS X, a lightweight text editor. Microsoft has had his text editor Word available for macintosh as far as I can remember, but I always hated it. We don't get along. I just can't help it, there's always unexpected stuff happening when I start using it. It changes your typeface, it moves images around, page numbering goes crazy, etc.... The list could go on forever. I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who is unhappy with Microsoft Word. A few years ago, when I found myself writing my final thesis at university, I knew that I needed an alternative... And I found one.

Mellel offered me all what I needed. It is simple yet highly customizable if needed; so if you want fancy indexes generated automatically, custom styles, etc, you can get them. I started using it when it was still quite a "young" piece of software, and as updates came along through the years, its has become a very stable word processor. It even imports and exports from/to Word, which makes it easier when your colleagues are still stucked with it. Mellel is offered at 49$ (35$ student discount), and I am very happy I decided to spend that money.

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ReBlogged by oriol on Aug 30, 2006 at 08:02 AM Posted by oriol on Aug 30, 2006 at 08:02 AM

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Posted by: ann at 30.08.2006 11:20 AM