I am thinking about buying Accordance Essentials and an iPad. I am used to Pages as a word processor, but I am wondering if there are any drawbacks to it. For instance, can I copy and paste greek and hebrew into Pages? Are there any pros or cons anyone has observed with Pages?
Word Processing App for Copy and Paste Greek and Hebrew
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, Mar 04 2013 03:16 PM
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Posted 04 March 2013 - 08:42 PM
I think your best bet is the very fine Mellel word processor. It was made for scholarly use including languages that read right to left. . . . and it is pretty inexpensive. Here is the link to the website:
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Posted 05 March 2013 - 12:28 AM
Gary,
Does Mellel have an app for ios? I cannot find anything on it.
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Posted 05 March 2013 - 02:35 AM
I am using Accordance on my ipad and the Pages app and I can copy and paste Greek and Hebrew into Pages.
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Posted 05 March 2013 - 03:22 AM
There is no Mellel app for iOS, though it would be nice if there was one! (Are you listening Redlers?)
As Martin says, Pages works quite well in the little I have used it for.
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Posted 05 March 2013 - 09:22 AM
Nisus (nisus.com) also works very well, and has some advantages over Mellel. Native file format is .rtf, which is word compatible; and I have found it to be intuitive and much easier to use than when I have tested Mellel.
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Posted 05 March 2013 - 11:54 AM
I am thinking about buying Accordance Essentials and an iPad. I am used to Pages as a word processor, but I am wondering if there are any drawbacks to it. For instance, can I copy and paste greek and hebrew into Pages? Are there any pros or cons anyone has observed with Pages?
Minor note: Accordance for iOS currently only supports copying verses at a time from Bible texts.
I use Notability for writing and taking notes and I like it a lot. I just tested copying Hebrew and it did look pretty good (minor pointing issues). I also tried typing in Hebrew and it worked fine as well. But, when I started a line with Hebrew it kept the whole line RTL; there wasn't a way to enter a breaking space to move to LTR.
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