I have Mellel which is quite nice but it doesn't work smoothly in terms of importing the lingua frnca (M$ word files). I had a meltdown with M$ Word on a Macbook and I just can't get it to run (bound to be font corruption, but alas can't fix it). The only things that I don't like are related to the interface design, for example the round beveled look of the ruler and tools section is very outdated now, a boring all-grey mix of alien spaceship ("aqua"-style) or early iTunes versions ("metal"-style).Ä«ut besides that Mellel has the best combination of features for me, so my money goes to them. No soft hyphen! So only usable for some very short texts, best freeware I've seen for many many years - of course I keep an eye on it) Bean (really fanstatic freeware, but based on Apples buggy text-engine. AbiWord (Many bugs and no updates the last 2 years, I think they don't support the Mac anymore) Papyrus (very ugly, carbon, no real testdrive possible - crippled trial version, but some interesting features - I keep an eye on it) but I exspect the next versions will be much better) Pages (Again no soft hyphen!, occasionally crashes and after a while gets very slow. Mariner Write (really bad font display/spacing for many years now, only english, carbon - so it needs to be rewritten for future OSX releases, will they do that? I'm unsure.) Nisus (Nearest competitor but Nisus doesn't support soft hyphen!, I simply cannot work without soft hyphen.), for me Neo Office is the best of these beasts.) Mellel is not bloated like all the "Office" suites (Neo, OO, MS, are all to slow. The last days I've tested many word processors and I found Mellel to be the best so far,
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