Doing much of the above on Mellel is too hard, if possible at all (it won't do sequential multi-layered lists without a huge amount of workaround). There are some things I have not tried yet, such as Bookends and Mathtype, but the general opinion seems to be that they work well enough - Mathtype is no good in Pages (or in Word for Mac), although I cannot verify this yet. Another critically important feature is that Nisus is good with sections and you can insert easily (easier than Word, as with most things in Nisus) landscape sections - Pages cannot do this. It imports from Word far better than Pages, and seems to me (so far) to be the most suitable if you work in an environment that requires Word imports and exports. You can customise the 'palettes' also, though there could be some improvement there. ![]() Nisus has no graphics, whereas Pages has shapes, but you can use the tables menu to make text-boxes and lines, though this can be cumbersome and in some instances not possible (I cannot understand why Nisus does not deal with this). It does not take long to master styles in Nisus, and once you have you may conclude that it is the easiest of all WPs to automate styles in. Nisus is *very* customisable, including a comprehensive ability to associate keys with actions, and macros, whereas Pages can do neither of these. Pages can't cross-reference, which is deal-breaker, and has irritating features such as inability to incorporate tabs into an automated style (eg make a style for heading or a para, and you have to opt-tab to insert the tab). Eg I write long documents with numbered paras, different types of headings, tables and figures with captions. Mellel, Scrivener and the others are somewhat specialist and require a lot of work to fit to your needs, if you like to automate, have sequential multi-layered lists, etc. Nisus is great - the nearest to Word IMHO. ![]() You need to try them both to see what suits you. Pages is wonderful but very restricted, like most of Apple's own software. As the other replies imply - it depends what you are looking for.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |