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I dabbled with it, but never went into it in detail.īut having used Mellel for the past 4 years, I would say don't underestimate the power of Mellel. Probably LaTex is best for strict sciences. Mellel for your English papers and use LaTeX only when you need to (math/engineering/science papers or anything that will be published). But since LaTeX is free, you can always get it along with Mellel, and use each to their strengths.

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Freshman year is stressful enough that you don't want to have to deal with debugging LaTeX code just to get your paper in by the due date. I suggest you get Mellel or any other word processor, and use it to write your English class essays. For that, Mellel will do just fine (as will iWork and others). Plus sharing files with classmates gets annoying when not everybody can read/edit/understand your files.įrom the sound of it, you'll mostly be using this to write papers for class. If you are doing only text, LaTeX is likely more power than you need, and the excess control you have over typesetting styles is more of a distraction than an aid. If you want to write out math equations that look professional quality, there is no substitute. The real strength of LaTeX is mathematics. With LaTeX, it's a tough learning curve because you basically have to learn a new programming language, but once you get the hang of it, you can make publication-quality documents. With Mellel, you can get started easily and get something that looks good enough for most things, but not perfect. LaTeX is, as somebody mentioned earlier, a language for typesetting.

Mellel is 'what you see is what you get'. Mellel and LaTeX are very different beasts. I have recently gone through the same exercise that you are, so I speak not from experience with either option, but from experience with your situation (starting grad school in 2 weeks, gulp!).

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