Word Processing

Word Processing Applications

Mellel 2.0.1

by

In an update to Mellel 2.0, a Mac OS X word processor ( read about it here), Mellel 2.0.1 addresses a problem with running on older versions of Mac OS X – Mellel 2.0.1 will run on Mac OS X 10.2.

Mellel 2.0 and Mellel Spotlight Plugin

by

Mellel 2.0, the word processor from RedleX, has been released. Mellel is one of the leading word processors for Mac OS X, with a special focus on scholars, writers, technical writing and multilingual word processing. A lot of genealogists use it because of the above advertised features -if you’re writing formal genealogy documents/books, the formatting, footnote/endnote, citation, and layout features are a big plus. Version 2.0 is a major update, and requires Mac OS X 10.2.

The Mellel Spotlight Plugin is just that – a plugin for Mac OS X 10.4’s Spotlight, that makes Mellel documents searchable.

Languages/Localisations: Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazilian) Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish. Several more are set to be released soon.

Some of the new features and updates include: Enhanced RTF support (images/graphics), extensive support for columns and sections, speed improvements, Table improvements, and many others (see http://www.mellel.com/releasenotes.html for full list).

What’s New:

Read more

Nisus Writer Express 2.5

by

Nisus Writer Express 2.5 has been released to the world (although preview/Release Candidates with most of the new features have been available for several weeks, for those wanting a sneak peek). This is a free upgrade for previous users of Nisus Writer Express from 1.0 on up. Nisus Software refers to Nisus Writer Express as the “writers word processor”. Next to Mellel, this is one of the most popular non-Microsoft commercial word processors (the jury is still out on Apple’s Pages).

Supported formats: RTF, MS Word PC 97-2003, MS Word Mac 1998-2004, Nisus Writer Classic (read only), Plain Text and Unicode, Word Perfect 6-11 PC, AbiWord, RTFD, PDF.

Among the new features in version 2.5:

    * Right to Left Text Input
    * Bullets and Numbering
    * LinkBack Support
    * Improved Style Sheet Navigator
    * Faster File Opening
    * Insert Hyperlink
    * Built-in Tables
    * User-defined styles
    * Footnotes
    * Document endnotes
    * Section endnotes
    * Smart Quotes
    * Highlighter
    * Save as PDF
    * Improved support for reading and writing RTF
    * Improved support for Reading and Writing Word documents

Requires: Mac OS X 10.3. $69.

Read more

BibDesk 1.1.6

by

BibDesk 1.1.6 is ready for download.

BibDesk is a graphical BibTeX-bibliography manager for Mac OS X. BibDesk is designed to help organize and use bibliographic databases in BibTeX .bib format. In addition to manual typing, BibDesk lets you drag & drop or cut & paste .bib files into the bibliographic database and automatically opens files downloaded from PubMed. BibDesk also keeps track of electronic copies of literature on your computer and allows for searching your database through several keys.

BibDesk integrates well with TeX for creating citations and bibliographies. This integration includes a Citation search completion service, and drag & drop (cut & paste) support for adding citations to TeX files.

Version 1.1.6 offers a large number of bug fixes as well as new features over 1.1.5 (calling it version 1.2.0 might have been more appropriate). Among the new features – copying the entire PDF from TeX preview and editor drawer, interface improvements including a progress indicator added to the TeX preview window, a Find and Replace feature has been added in certain areas (only if you are running Mac OS X 10.3+), and improved URL/webloc handling features.

Read more

EndNote 9

by

EndNote 9 has been released by ResearchSoft – this is a major release for the bibliography tool.