6/26/2023 0 Comments Extra fonts for mellelMy writings flitters between English, Czech and sometimes German (with bits and bobs in other languages) and this was nightmare with Word. They then either send a hard copy or a PDF (Oxford University Press have always done the latter). rft are fine, but be sure to send a PDF too so we can double check it for diacritics, formatting, etc.". For what it's worth, I've published with a number of major academic houses and without exception, when I ask about what format I should send they say something like "oh, it doesn't matter. On the rare occasions when you must send a document in Word format, it usually because it is going to get a layout treatment from layout people at a publishers. I have reformatted several old articles that I had written Word into Mellel, just so that I could see what it would have been like. Not only is it an effective tool, but it is a joy to use. I am recomending Mellel to students for some of the same reasons I love it – it really helps to organise ones work and output. It's much faster and the less on-screen reading I have to do, the better. Now that I am on the other side of the lecturn, as it were, I prefer to get things in PDF or even better, hard copies. For a 400+ page document, that was something. thesis with AppleWorks – with no bibliographic software. ![]() This is going back a few years, (cue Monty Python-esque Yorkshire accent) but I wrote and printed my entire Ph.D. So Mellel, Bookends, and Mori got me through from start to finish. For storing large volumes of notes that I wanted to be able to search, I pasted into Mori. When it came to taking notes Mellel's list function and columns were great. Anytime I needed to share a chapter with colleagues or committee members, PDF did the trick (no objections), and they e-mailed comments separately or we met to share comments verbally. Mellel never crashed despite the entire dissertation living in a single file, kept speedy despite 10 large images and numerous tables, integrated beautifully with Bookends, gave me wonderful control over section numbering and table of contents, and made me never regret leaving Word's confused notion of styles behind. Me three! In fact, I started and just finished my dissertation in Mellel, and used Chinese and Japanese extensively I love how Mellel lets me define one font for Roman text (I used Warnock Pro 12 pt), and one for CJK (I used PMingLiu at 10 pt or 83.3%, for consistent size and line height). Now, if we could just get Word/Pages comments to display properly (I noticed that they will show up at the end of a document when imported from Word but it's impossible to match them to the passages where the comments were inserted in the first place).įWIW, I even switched to Mellel in the middle of my dissertation. With cross-referencing in the upcoming version of 2.5, Mellel will prove a very robust word processing application. In short, Mellel's integration with Bookends, powerful implementation of styles, outlining, ability to handle long documents, language support, and note streams sold me on it. Other members on this forum were helpful in allowing me to make this leap with some degree of confidence. Although it's more trouble than simply writing and saving in Word, such "mafan" is more than offset by what I prefer about using Mellel for my writing.įWIW, I even switched to Mellel in the middle of my dissertation. ![]() Chinese characters showed up correctly and formatting was preserved. It worked fine last time I sent a conference paper to a discussant. rtf, then open the file in Word and save it as a. Thus far, I have not exchanged a large number of files with colleagues. I, too, often mix Chinese and Western language in my academic writing. Can someone give me a basic list of advantages to switching from MSWord that might help offset any problems or glitches I might have by switching? Thanks.įirst of all, you can see the Competitive Comparison created by Redlers. I'm a professor who must compose documents mixing Chinese and various Western languages and be able to send them without hitch to numerous Windows, and MSWord, users, including publishers. Gpolberd wrote:I've yet to find anyplace on the website or in the forums that will tell me what the major advantages of switching from MSWord to Mellel are.
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