If I want formatting, I use a desktop publishing program (for me, that's Affinity Publisher.) While writing, word processors force me to deal with it although it's absolutely unnecessary. So for almost anything but short business letters, I use Scrivener. Takes all of that away except for just the amount I need for making my workplace comfortable, and then puts it back when needed. LaTeX is damn near perfectly reliable and stable with cross-references, citations, and getting a great looking formatting out (though Mellel comes close on stability, unless you need math. I mean, it doesn't have anything special for it. You CAN do it, but it's not comfortable once you get to a certain level of math or physics, which is already fairly basic. But for other sciences Mellel is a great choice, and is popular there.)Įven the aforementioned business letters I could to with the publishing program. And there's an awesome LaTeX-macro for business letters.įor me, like-Word is a dying class of application. I just continue to use them because I grew up with them, and they feel like home. But most of my serious work is done elsewhere, nowadays.Ĭlick to expand.I agree. I'm a long-time Nisus fan, and will probably always use it for correspondence. Mail-merge, for one thing, and it's clean and easy to use. In Nisus, I write in draft view with most things turned off. Mellel appears to be much better with epub export, with features like spine support. It tries to enforce WYSIWYG, but there are ways around some of that for the committed rebel. Since Mellel supports page styles, you can rip out your headers, footers, and line numbers. The compact view gives you page breaks (drat!) but they are just single pixel lines. Otherwise, you get a simple Notepad-like view.
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