If you want to share your work go with Nisus. It’s somehow “more open” than Mellel in this regard. Mellel is a bit harder to learn but very efficient.įile-format: Nisus saves natively in RTF, and that’s a big deal. The UI is a matter of taste I prefer Nisus, because it’s more customisable and somehow more “mac-like”, easy to understand. Then featurewise Nisus is stronger, I suspect because they don’t need to invest resources into the development of an own engine – they simply let apple do this job. While this could have been an advantage for Mellel five years ago, today’s OS X text engine gives superior typography (just look at the kerning in justified text, placement of types). The main difference is the text-engine Mellel has its own, Nisus uses the one from OS X. I tested both Mellel and Nisus and would recommend Nisus Writer Pro. Ok, this is an old thread, still I write an answer. I look forward to the responses because this summer I begin in earnest my Targum Ruth project, including a transcription so I will be needing the same requirements. I’d be grateful for any advice you could give me. Now I am faced with a choice between Nisus Writer Pro and Mellel and which font to select as the main font of the book and which fonts /electronic texts for the biblical texts (I use Accordance). I have used Nisus in the past and am trying Mellel now but have found it hard to learn. I could use some advice on using Nisus vs Mellel on a Mac and which unicode font work best – I am editing a 900 page book on textual criticism by Dominique Barthelemy that has Hebrew, Greek, Syriac, and Arabic fonts on almost every page as well as textual criticism symbols and characters. Today I received a query from a colleague and wanted to throw this out to you all. Now I am happily using NWP (even for most of my Word doc collaborations in the office), but I have not had to really pound the Aramaic/Hebrew/Syriac/Right-to-Left capabilities. Both developers have always been very helpful and friendly. I used Nisus Writer (the old one) for my doctoral thesis and book and before NW Pro for Intel came out I used Mellel and contributed to their beta.
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