The running joke, Martin, is that Nisus hasn't produced the ruler. Nisus Writer introduced a vertical ruler to Word Processing. Everyone else copied it -- for good reason, it is very useful. But now we have Nisus without it. Huh.
From the point of view of most of us, I suspect, this is virtually a maintenance release. An excellent release in those terms, but nothing to get excited about. Stuff has been tweaked a bit with nice tweaks, there's a huge number of fixes. All good, but still no ruler, no ability to set table cell sizes by measurement, tables over multiple pages don't carry the headers over to each page, no advance in outlining on my pseudo-outliner styles.
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Memory sounds: Nisus beeps after it has saved? Huh? Does it fail to save? Never has for me, but maybe my documents aren't big and complex enough.
But what does *not* beeping mean? I can think of seven possibilities:
* The feature is turned off
* NWPro is still saving
* NWPro has a bug which has stopped the sound happening
* NWPro has frozen overall
* NWPro is still running but has failed to save
* The sound is muted
* That unusual, gurgling sound was the brand new Mac just disappearing down the toilet with NWPro still running and the file possibly saved, or not.
Now, since there is no sound, what am I going to do about it?
Some people might like the reassurance that saving has succeeded. Fine. Not for me.
What I would like is a bit of a return to the good old days again. This has actually been nagging at me for ages, but I keep forgetting to raise it.
What's wanted, Martin, is a warning when saving has NOT occurred in the case of a new document, or WILL occur in the case of a re-opened document -- in other words, a positive message.
1) BEEP AND SAVE DIALOG WHEN I HAVE NOT SAVED
In the former NW, if you had autosave set (then an exclusive NW feature, way ahead of the field, like the vertical ruler), NW would beep and a SAVE dialog would appear after the set autosave interval of work on a new document. Used to drive me nuts, but ensured I saved. THAT'S when I want a "save" sound. Yesterday afternoon I wrote 2969 words (yes, really, using my set of pseudo-outliner styles) of a major proposal before I remembered to save. Good grief. That was with v.1.2. I don't think I've ever lost a word in NWPro through failure to save, but it would be nice to be reminded to make that initial save because if it isn't made, the Autosave feature is not working even when it is turned on in Preferences.
2) BEEP AND SAVE/SAVE AS DIALOG WHEN ABOUT TO AUTOSAVE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN A DOCUMENT THAT HAS BEEN RE-OPENED
Now this is where I have lost work and particularly archived material. I've opened a completed document which I either want to use as a template or to update/change for another use, then forgotten to "save as". Autosave means I overwrite the existing document. 500 words and 50% of the former document over-ridden later, I suddenly realize my error. Too late. So what about a warning beep and a SAVE OR SAVE AS dialog when the first autosave is due after a document has been re-opened?
Cheers, Geoff
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