Posted: 2007-01-10 21:20:51
It could be much, much worse.dshan wrote:Says the man with the banana...
It could be much, much worse.dshan wrote:Says the man with the banana...
Good news. I will test this feature as hard as possiblermark wrote:It will (and does).Reiner wrote:But anyway with the crossrefs-feature I still hope it will import Crossrefs from old Classic Nisus-documents correctly.
Thanks Scott! I don't feel picked on, I just realize how ignorant I am about changing platforms. Fancy, just a checkbox difference!I don't mean to pick on Anne, but let's get something straight, because I've seen this a couple of times. First of all, Leopard is a Universal Binary, so it will run on both PowerPC and Intel Macintoshes. That's the whole point of the Universal Binary. Even if NWP did require Leopard (which it probably won't require but will probably be enhanced by because it is a Cocoa application and it grows as Mac OS X does), it will still run on PowerPC Macintoshes. After an application is changed over to a Universal Binary (the process of which has been completed by work on NWE and, according to Nisus, NWP is built upon the core of NWE), it takes no more time to develop a PowerPC version than it does an Intel version. It is a checkbox in XCode.
I bet Microsoft and Adobe wish this were the case.Fancy, just a checkbox difference!
I am puzzled by this statement. What I need to work, is a word processor that does what I want and which does not cost so much.So the idea that, in addition to this long a delay, we're going to need to add another infusion of dollars, is something that one might reasonably be a little unhappy about -- even if it's obviously not the end of the world, this is, for some of us, a reason to reassess whether we feel like re-committing to Nisus or moving to (e.g.) Pages instead.
Gosh, Midwinter, I had a peek. Is THAT how you swim?dshan wrote:
Says the man with the banana...
It could be much, much worse.
Anne, I am more than puzzled, I am utterly bemused! As Juliet would say, "What's in a name? ..." and to quote the bard again "... full of sound and fury and signifying nothing." I really don't see why it should concern any of us long term users whether they want to call it Nisus Writer Express 3, Nisus Writer Pro, Nisus Scrivener or whatever ... They have built an upgraded version of their software to include TOC, indexing, text flow round graphics, bookmarking, multi-page footnotes and a number of other features that people have been clamouring for. We either upgrade because we need some or all of those features or if we don't need them it's up to us to decide whether to upgrade or not.Anne Cuneo wrote: I am puzzled by this statement. What I need to work, is a word processor that does what I want and which does not cost so much.
Heh. Sometimes. (Why is there no emoticon for "coyly"?). And as an aside, Anne, I wish my French were better; I'd love to read one of your novels.Anne Cuneo wrote:MidwinterGosh, Midwinter, I had a peek. Is THAT how you swim?dshan wrote:
Says the man with the banana...
It could be much, much worse.
...That was why I was very careful to say after the app was made Universal, a process which can be anything but easy, especially when one has to deal with legacy code that stretches back as far as Photoshop and Word...Nisus has already done that work, though, with the Classic file format seemingly being the hardest part (or that's what the blog said anyway)...SteveH wrote:I bet Microsoft and Adobe wish this were the case.Fancy, just a checkbox difference!
Just joking.
Yeah, makes no sense to me either. I am hoping they simply keep one or the other.JBL wrote:One thing I am a little confused about is what the target market is for Express vs Pro. The way I see it, if it is a feature that only confuses my wife, my mother and my boss, it probably belongs in Pro (and not Express). At the same time, if it is a feature my wife, my mother and my boss can't do without, it belongs in Express (as well as Pro). Using that criteria, it seems to me that Express has a bunch of Pro features (non-contiguous selection, styles) while it is missing some basic features (text-wrap, widow and orphan control). Unless Nisus plans on including some of these features in Express, it seems like everyone is going to end up needing Pro. What do you guys think could/should differentiate the Express version from the Pro version so that both would have a niche?
To me that looks like a "Document Map" like in Word. I hope so as I very much like the Document Map in Word.JBL wrote:On the screen capture it looks like the left drawer has an outline view. That is perfect for me. I don't know why it didn't make it onto the list of features they highlight.