Mellel 6 released (Mac only)

Posted by Dormouse
Dec 19, 2023 at 06:47 PM

Amontillado wrote:
>I think I’d still look at alternatives to master documents. DocxManager,
>for example.

DocxManager has no dark mode, and I’ve seen references to total data loss (maybe even in this forum).
But even if it works, it doesn’t as stable and effective as many of the writing programs - Ulysses, Scrivener, Inspire Writer etc.

>Back then, it was extremely easy to entangle
>subdocuments. The wise Word enthusiast, at least back then, pretended
>master document mode didn’t exist because it was deadly easy to mangle
>documents.

Master documents & subdocuments still work easily, but the vied switching doesn’t work as well as with the writing programs.

My dislike of the Scrivener et al system of building from the cards/scenes, is maybe a quirk of my own that I have realised over the years. It feels as if it puts the emphasis on the components and takes it away from the whole. I have a better grasp working from the whole document. Word now has good outline views (much better than the other WPs I have tried), and I prefer to work within that. Plus doing development work in Mindomo and exporting/copying into the docx.

>In the end, little-w words mean much more than Word, my beloved Mellel,
>vim, or anything else. Use what works for you. If conditions are hostile
>to preference, use export to docx and don’t tell what you really used.
>;-)

Agree completely