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1. #MELLEL V MARINER WRITE PRO#
2. #MELLEL V MARINER WRITE SOFTWARE#
3. #MELLEL V MARINER WRITE SERIES#
4. #MELLEL V MARINER WRITE MAC#

#MELLEL V MARINER WRITE PRO#

Mariner Write is non-awful and Nisus Writer Pro has some things going for it, but neither is quite it.Ī word, then, on Microsoft Word. I had been floating around trying different things, none of them quite what I wanted. When MacWrite Pro was no longer feasible to run, then I switched to FrameMaker for a while, but that never made the OS X transition, so that wasn’t a viable option. This is, of course, how MacWrite Pro handled this. Doing it with a header that appears only on the first page is OK, but doing it with a WYSIWYG text box is the clearest and easiest way I’ve seen to handle this. I dislike most implementations that require “sections” to do this. I can usually get most word processors to do it, more or less, but the issue isn’t usually whether or not they can, but how much of a pain in the ass it is to get it running and how sensible the outcome is in terms of mapping from what it shows on the screen to what gets printed on the page. Most word processors, however, make this task way, way more difficult than it should be. Maybe this doesn’t sound complicated and it definitely should not be hard for someone with a graduate degree in computer science to figure out. I also need style sheets to handle various heading levels, figure captions, and body text that sometimes does and does not require a first-line indent depending on whether or not it follows a heading. The tricky bit is that the first page is different it requires a single-column start with the paper tile, author information, and sometimes abstract. So, what’s my fist test? I try to generate a document in what I think of as “conference proceedings format.” This is pretty straightforward two-column format, which virtually all word processors can handle with very little pain.

#MELLEL V MARINER WRITE SERIES#

(Yes, there will be a series entry on outliners.) So, my primary use is technical writing. I don’t use my word processor as an outliner I have an outliner for that. I don’t write fiction, advertisements, brochures, forms, or anything like that.

I write almost no memos or letters that’s what email is for in my world. I also write exams and homework assignments and answer keys for those. I write scientific journal articles, conference papers, book chapters, and grant proposals send to federal agencies. I’m an academic, but I don’t write books. Before I get into that, though, I think it’s important to mention what kind of writing I typically do with word processors, because what works for me might not work for other people depending on what kind of writing you do. Now, because I’ve tried so many, I now have a standard test I do when I take any new word processor for a spin. The last version released was a long time ago, and once development stopped, it didn’t last long, mostly because it had issues with newer printer drivers, and if you can’t print properly from your word processor, it’s done. It had just enough page-layout-style features that you could control things, but it never overwhelmed you with that stuff.īut, unfortunately, MacWrite Pro is dead. Style sheets always made sense and worked in sensible, predicable ways, and there was a differentiation between character styles and paragraph styles that promoted a mental model of the system that actually worked.

In my opinion, MacWrite Pro was, hands down, the king. There is a clear winner in terms of history for the best word processor for the Mac, ever. I’ve also owned Write Now, MacWrite II, MacWrite Pro, various flavors of Nisus Writer, WordPerfect Mac, ClarisWorks/AppleWorks, FrameMaker, Mariner Write, Pages, and I’ve taken several others for test drives (Mellel, a few others whose names I can’t remember).

#MELLEL V MARINER WRITE SOFTWARE#

Edges of the bloat could be seen with version 5, and version 6 was one of the most colossal disasters in office software history. Word was much smaller then, more lightweight. Basically, it was that or vanilla MacWrite.

#MELLEL V MARINER WRITE MAC#

A long time ago (late 1980s) the best word processor for the Mac was Microsoft Word version 4.0, no contest.