Mellel vs LaTeX

Overall, this is a great app. There are only 2 things I would like to suggest improving ... 1. the cursor behaves erratically. Very difficult to control using the keyboard and it dances around all over the place. 2. When adjusting the width of table cells, could it leave other unrelated and unconnected tables untouched? Exports great to MS word format.

- Septic Monkey

Interesting alternative, and fromthe trial, seems more user friendly than say Scrivener. That said, it touts "By Academics for Academics" - disagree. Mellel is embedded with Bookends as the reference citation integration - Bookends is a non-starter for serious academics. Bookends does not allow for any importation of necessary style guides. Zotero has them all by default. If you need a specific style for your university.department, you are forced to suddenly become a code editor. --- When Mellel, Bookends or both coose to accomodate flexibility and realistic options, I'll try again. I need a viable alternative to MS Word and the other litany of stuff out there - not headaches, endless forum searches, and silly limitations when completing my PhD.

- robertgunn2019

I've been aware of Mellel for several years, but have used Pages for all my writing: articles and books. Its nearly 2022, now, so thot I'd try Mellel instead of using Pages 11.2 and its changed format for me. As starters I've downloaded the Mellel demo and read several reviews, but no review I've read contains specifics as to how Mellel is better than Pages. I'd like some evidence that for a 300 page scholarly book Mellel is better than Pages. The book will have text and visuals, notes and index. I'd really appreciate someone taking the time to post specifics. Thank you. dbing

- dgbmunger

I would like to declare that I am writing this review from the perspective of someone who does not have extensive coding experience. LaTeX has been a fantastic package to use. I would suggest its formatting as its best feature. Formatting in LaTeX goes hand in hand with its magnitude of customizability. It is very different than "What you see is what you get" editors. Instead, it is a "What you make is what you get" software package. To every detail of a document, you have virtually unlimited control for the appearance of your document. Margins are easy to figure out and the document that you create will look better than any document you have created using other editors.

- User in Non-Profit Organization Management

To start with, LaTeX is a software tool that helps to write books, letters, reports, and articles using codes and through my experiences with Latex, the best point is " you learn a new language that includes code" also it is a feature that separate math and physic people from biology and other areas of study. In addition, it expands your knowledge and leads you to explore new things such as finding the solution of a problem in two ways rather than one.

- Judi H. Translator

I like the fact that latex makes it very easy to write mathematics-related things. To be honest, Latex has been a great tool for my day-to-day work like software documentation, software design, and stuff. I would recommend the product to others as well. The documents i create with Latex are more informative and easy to understand than other documents. I have not found anything that is dislikable. Almost all the features have been pretty useful for me. So there is nothing at the moment that I dislike about this great tool. I would give 10/10 to the tool with my current experience with it.

- janaka s. Software Engineer