The Top 10 List Of Word Processors For Mac Users
I saw an ad on the web for yet another Mac word processor. How many ways do you need to write something on your Mac?
A few dozen, apparently. I made a list of all the Mac word processors I knew, then did a search online and came up with a dozen more.
Word processing is alive and well on the Mac. Here’s a list of 10 of the best, some free. Is your favorite on the list?
Of all the applications we use on our Macs, word processors may be the category with the broadest definition, and the most personal of anything we.... (excerpted).
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Craig Turner said:
Nisus is the standard I hold to with word processing. An elegant and versatile word processor I recommend to my teaching/scholar friends who need its power. I use Scrivener to develop and brainstorm my initial manuscripts, then pour into Nisus for final edits and formatting. Connect to Bookends for footnotes and bibliographies and it’s done.
Mister Ron said:
Even with Microsoft Word on my dock, my WP of choice is usually Tex-Edit Plus. Fast, fast, fast!—and easy to use, with virtually any feature you can hope for in a Word Processor. It’s been around for a long time, and the product has evolved over the years to a robust, full-featured program, without the perplexing quirks of MS Word…
mr. wonderful said:
Doesn’t that describe Adobe Acrobat? If you need the feature you got to pay the price. It’s from Adobe. It’s not cheap.
Stevew said:
I was checking out word processors recently and ironically the one feature that was a ‘must have’ for me wasn’t available in any of them.
That feature was to be able to output to .pdf and have the table of contents provide links to the different pages in a document. The links should not be underlined in blue or have any such visible markings.
Apple doesn’t provide this in its frameworks so printing to pdf doesn’t work for this task.
Does anyone know of any such app?
Ian Betteridge said:
And the irony of WriteNow not making it to OS X, is that its original debut was on the NeXT Cube. I believe it was actually bundled with the first NeXT machines too.
jobaron said:
Back in the previous century, (millennium actually,) when the Mac still did not have the lower-case “i” to start its name, there was a word processor called WriteNow.
To this day no one has ever produced a word processing program to compare with its ease, its intuitivity, its speed.
It fit the hands of writers like the proverbial soft leather glove and not like that torture instrument, Word, which is more like the medieval Iron Maiden.
Alas, it never made the transfer to OSX.
Please, dear programmers - Bring back WriteNow!
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Franklin McCoy said:
Do any of the 10 word processors listed have grammar check and the ability to make and read track changes made in MS Word?
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