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For Immediate Release
Tel Aviv, Israel — November 14, 2005 —RedleX today released Mellel 2.0, a major update to the leading word processor for Mac OS X.
Mellel 2.0 offers over 30 new features and improvements, introducing for the first time page layout application capabilities in a word processor. Mellel 2.0 also includes several features enhancing ease of use and writing and managing long document. The update is free to all registered users of Mellel. A free trial version is also available.
Prominent among the new features introduced with Mellel 2.0 are support for multiple columns, superb support for hyphenation, widows and orphans control, keep with next, and an enhanced support for RTF import and export. The new options further enhance Mellel's position as the leading word processor for writing long and complex manuscripts and multi-lingual documents.
"Mellel 2.0 is a huge step forward for us," says Eyal Redler, CTO at RedleX. "Our mission with Mellel was always to provide the ideal word processor for scholars and writers. Now, with the current version, we're making a significant move to also fill the void left when FrameMaker for the Mac was abandoned by Adobe," he adds. The unique thing about the new features, he claims, is not the features, but the level of sophistication and control Mellel 2.0 offers with them. "Those are things you could only find in a page layout application until now," he adds.
Mellel 2.0 also adds several new features and enhancements tailored to the requirements and needs of writers and scholars. "When you run forward, it's easy to forget that the main task of a word processor is to cater to its user's needs," claims Guy Hivroni, cofounder and chief GUI designer for Mellel. "We pay special care to never forget that: new features such as background colour for documents, dashed borders and lines and, first and foremost, a vastly improved RTF export and import support are tribute to that."
Mellel 2.0 is available for download now from here. The price for a single user license is US$49, Educational license is US$34.99, 5 Pack license (5 licenses) are US$69. A box version of Mellel is expected soon for an estimated price of US$69.
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For a complete of new features, improvements and bug fixes, please see the release notes at: http://www.mellel.com/releasenotes.html
For a review of new features in Mellel 2.0, please go to the special Mellel 2.0 page at: http://www.mellel.com/mellel20.html (Inactive link)
The new version of Mellel several new features, enhancements, and improvements:
- Columns: Mellel 2.0 offers extensive support for sections and columns, including multiple columns, section/column styles, background colour, space above sections, column balancing, gutter width, line, line colour, weight and line type (dashes).
- Hyphenation: Extensive support including more than 20 hyphenation language dictionaries, multiple hyphenation dictionaries per document, user dictionary, customisation of minimum length of word, before and after hyphen, hyphenation zone, hyphenation limit and last-word-in-paragraph control. In addition, hyphenation dictionaries can be edited and added using a free tool called Mellel Hyphenation Lab. The tool enables using TeX hyphenation dictionaries with minimal changes in Mellel.
- RTF import and export enhancements: Extended support now includes support for import and export of images and graphics, headers and footers, page numbering, section attributes, and more.
- Keep options (widows and orphans): Mellel 2.0 supports widows and orphans control with an option to individually set the number of lines to be kept together at the beginning or the end of a paragraph, or keep the whole paragraph together (with most word processors, the option is non-customisable)
- Keep with next: Mellel 2.0 allows controlling how many lines of the next paragraph will be kept together with the current paragraph (with most word processors, the option is non-customisable).
- Table and image height: To solve the perennial problem of positioning graphics and tables in columns and still keep the columns completely parallel (as is required) Mellel 2.0 supports image and table height "rounding" which rounds the height of the table or graphics based on the line spacing in the surrounding text.
- Line type: Dashes and dots were added as line type options with column gutter lines, tables, and footnote separator.
- Background colour: Support for background colour (non printable), and also background colour (printable) with page styles.
- 20 percent faster: Mellel 2.0 will open documents about 20 percent faster than previous versions.
- Facing pages: page margins can be set to right/left or inside/outside (facing).
- Space above and below: Space above paragraphs at the top of a page or a column will be ignored or not based on user preference. Space below will be ignored when at the bottom of a page or column.
- Restart footnotes numbering: Added the option to also restart with every section or page range (chapter).
- Progress indicator: When opening very long documents or performing a very long process Mellel will display a progress bar. GUI Improvements: A more compact "compact" view, streamlined and more compact palettes, redesigned several user interface elements.
- Page Up/Down: User customisable, whether to skip to the top of the next/previous page or one window length up or down.
- Make section from selection: Select some text and choose Edit > Make section from selection. That's it.
- Extended OpenType support: Support for Historical forms and Historical Ligatures.
- Look Up in Dictionary: Added to the contextual menu options.
- And more: For a complete list of features, enhancements and bug fixes, please refer to the release notes at: http://www.mellel.com/releasenotes.html
- Localisation with the initial release: Danish, Dutch, Esperanto, German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazilian) Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish.
- Expected soon: Czech, French, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Serbian, and more.
Mellel is one of the leading word processors for Mac OS X, with a special focus on scholars, writers, technical writing and multilingual word processing.
Mellel is available for download now, from the list of servers given below. It can be purchased for just US$49 for a regular license. Educational license is US$34.99, 5 Pack license (5 licenses) are US$69. A box version of Mellel is expected soon for an estimated price of US$69.
To purchase go to here.
For details about other purchasing options to here.
RedleX was founded in 2002 by Eyal Redler, Ori Redler and Guy Hivroni. The company is privately held and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.
For general press-related information about Mellel and RedleX go to: http://www.redlers.com/newspresscentre.html
Email: press@redlers.com
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