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driss
09-28-2005
08:56 PM ET (US)
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B. Clement
10-25-2004
02:57 PM ET (US)
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My beloved Word Perfect for Mac will work on OSX, but won't print on HP, so I'm having to switch to another word processor. Nisus Express is frustratingly clunky by comparison, and in spite of a Help invitation to e-mail problems, they never respond. Forget about copying material from one document into another with Nisus. Doing that causes it to replicate the copy endlessly. I wish Corel would make an OSX compatible version of Word Perfect!
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Max
09-14-2004
08:13 PM ET (US)
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Writers Wanted/Writing Contest
1st Prize: $100, Publication in 2005, & full refund of fee. Honorable mentions will be considered for publication & receive a partial refund.
Style: all (poetry, short stories, etc…).
Topics: comedy, drama, sci-fi, crime, action, religious, fiction, & erotica (300 words or less).
E-mail entries to cipherswanted@yahoo.com with the chosen topic written in the subject line.
Fee: $20 payable via PayPal at PayPal.com to cipherswanted@yahoo.com.
Ends; December 2004. Winners notified January 2005.
International writers welcomed.
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Robert Buice
04-27-2003
11:28 AM ET (US)
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The impression that I get is that they are going to release the Express version as a "light version" until they can add in all the features of the older version. I hope that is the case as there seems to be no benefit to using the program as seen in the beta.
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HandyMac
04-26-2003
09:22 PM ET (US)
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Nisus for X isn't actually a descendant of the previous Nisus, but a rework of a promising cocoa WP app named Okito Composer, which Nisus bought before I started using X, so I never checked it out before it disappeared. I never used the classic Nisus; as Gary remarks, it seemed more like a geek's toy than a polished app, I didn't really need all the fancy tricks, and despite its reputation for multilingual capabilities (a major interest) it was never really good with Chinese/Japanese, and didn't work at all with Apple's Indian (Hindi/Sanskrit/etc.) Language Kit (or the Otani University Tibetan kit built on the same technology). The new Nisus, while it looks nice on screen, is about the same: it'll do Chinese, but not with any great intelligence (unable to specify default font, no vertical text, etc.), and still doesn't work with Apple's Devanagari input system, or XenoType's OS X Tibetan Language Kit, though it does handle Hebrew (and Arabic I suppose), and Unicode extended Latin character sets. I still don't like the name, and the icon is an eyesore (iSore?).
Another contender is Mellel, which naturally does Hebrew well (it comes from Israel), but doesn't do Devanagari or Chinese. And the brushed metal interface I could do without; even with Metallifizer removing the metal, it's still too cute and space-wasting.
Mariner Write was great in classic, a no-nonsense, substance-over-style WP that actually worked with all Apple's Language Kits (and even did vertical Chinese/Japanese). Its OS X version, unfortunately, is like AppleWorks barely carbonized, so is actually less capable than before, as it doesn't understand Unicode at all; it'll still do Chinese/Japanese, but none of the other languages it used to do.
Unfortunately the AppleWorks update didn't address any of its shortcomings; it's still a classic app masquerading as an X app. Seems it's back to TextEdit for "serious" work. You can actually format it in pages (unlike SimpleText) if you select "Wrap to Page," which gives a 1-inch margin all around. Can even center or justify text, though leading can't be set by points, only by "line"--which means that if fonts are mixed in a paragraph you're likely to get uneven line spacing.
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Gary Bloom
04-26-2003
08:08 PM ET (US)
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Nisis Writer (Classic) is all features, no interface. NW Express is all interface, no features. Amazing that that's all they've done after all this time. Word killer? Not even Mariner Write killer. Guess I'll be sticking with BBEdit and LaTeX unless Apple really does produce a word processor.
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