RedleX have released Mellel 1.6.7, an update to its advanced multi-lingual word processor for Mac OS X. RedleX have teamed with Sonny Software (www.sonnysoftware.com) creators of Bookends, an advanced Bibliography/reference manager to create a solution that smoothly integrates writing and reference management.

The two products allow you to insert citations into a document, edit them, review a list of citations used in a document, look-up or directly jump to a reference, scan documents for citations, automatically append bibliography, and much more.

In contrast with other word processors where citations are just pieces of text managed externally by reference managers such as Bookends or Endnote, citations in Mellel are specially defined objects. This innovative approach allows you to create, edit, navigate and manage citations much more flexibly and reliably, without any fear of "destroying" citations, losing formatting or altering styles as often happens with other word processors.

Mellel 1.6.7 also introduces two new additions to its growing family of localised versions: Japanese and Esperanto. The Esperanto localisation for Mellel is the first such localisation on Mac OS X. Also of note in this release is the addition of an improved line-breaking support for Japanese. Mellel now prevents Japanese text from breaking in odd places, such as before Hiragana and Katakana small letters or after special closing brackets.

Special: For a limited period of time any buyer of Mellel will be eligible to purchase Bookends at a 20 per cent discount. The discount will not apply to "competitive upgrade" or to users upgrading Bookends.

New Mellel 1.6.7 features in detail:

• Entering Citations: The new Bibliography palette will allow you to easily enter citation(s) from Bookends, drag and drop citations, enter citations manually, enter citations from the Citations List, and more.
• Scanning and Generating: The new Bibliography palette offers the option to scan documents and replace temporary citations with the final citations, create a fully formatted manuscript and add a bibliography using your built-in styles.
• Finding Citations: Mellel 1.6.7 allows you to find citations in Bookends, Jump directly from a citation to its reference in Bookends, navigate between citations in the document, jump to any citation in the document using the Citations List, navigate between all the citations in the document, and more.
• Editing Citations: With Mellel 1.6.7 you will enjoy an unprecedented freedom editing and manipulating citations. You can edit entered citations easily (and safely -- citations will not get "corrupted" if you fiddle with them), re-enter existing citations right from Mellel's Bibliography palette, replace citations, and more.
• Citations List: Displays all the citations entered into a document in an easy to browse list, allowing you to sift through all the citations, re-enter them, jump between instances of citations, and so on.
• Migration to Mellel: The "Convert Text to Citation" option allows you to convert in one easy step manually entered old citations into Mellel format citations.
• Special Citation Marking: Mellel 1.6.7 highlights citations in the text with a special light-blue background. This marking allows you to easily spot citations in the text. The option can be easily turned off via the preferences or the Show menu.
• Bibliography formatting control: This preferences option allow you to set your style options so that bibliography items will automatically gain your defined styles (as opposed to being formatted by Bookends).
• Improved line-breaking with Japanese: Mellel now fully support the Kinsoku line breaking rules. This means that Mellel will not break lines before or after certain characters such as small Katakana and Hiragana characters, punctuation marks, and so on.
• Localised versions: Mellel now offers localisations in 10 different languages (in addition to English), including: Dutch, Esperanto (new!), French, German, Italian, Japanese (new!), Polish, Spanish and Swedish.
• Improved Preferences: Mellel now saves its style into a special Mellel folder in Application Support. This ensures that even if the preferences are erased or removed the styles created by users be kept intact.
• Typographer's Quotes: several improvements, changes and additions to the Typographer’s Quotes options list including the addition of Greek-Alternative and fixes to English (UK), Greek, Romanian-Standard and Romanian Academic options.
• Better colours: The colours marking spelling errors, invisible table lines, invisible characters and citations have been changed and streamlined to look, well, better.
• Many bug fixes: including many bugs related to performance, footnotes and endnotes and style.

About Mellel

Mellel Mellel is an advanced, multilingual word processor built for Mac OS X and containing many sophisticated word processing features, with many more coming in the near future.

Mellel's features include:

And this is just the beginning. With Mellel 1.7 and 1.8 already in the works, RedleX plans to introduce many innovative new features, including an outline tool, numbered and bulleted lists, index, table of contents, columns, text flow around images, long-document management tools, and much more.

Pricing

Mellel can be purchased for just US$25. Special pricing for quantity purchases (regular and education) is available.