MacSailor wrote:Hopefully the new upcoming Nisus Writer Pro will give Nisus all (or nearly all) the features it has lacked since the Nisus Writer Classic version.
While I am delighted to see Nisus Writer Pro and I will be very keen to beta test and then download the completed version as soon as it is available I don't think that this first version of Nisus Writer Pro will have all or even nearly all of the features of Nisus Writer Classic.
However with optimism I think that perhaps a future version of Nisus Writer Pro will have all the features of Nisus Writer Classic and more.
The classic Nisus Writer really did do an awful lot. It had for example a graphic layer and graphic creation. It had terrific things like the ability to insert a page as a graphic which meant that Nisus Writer classic could be used very effectively as a desktop publishing program.
Nisus Writer classic had multiple file search and replace and even disc searching although the later was unreliable in my experience.
I really liked the Cataloque with Nisus Writer classic and many other things but it would be too boring for me to go on listing them
Of course I am comparing Nisus Writer classic version six with the beta of Nisus Writer Pro version one so it is not fair. After all the very first version of Nisus Writer classic was not so accomplished.
I am extremely pleased that Nisus are going on to create a word processor with some decent power. I think that a real alternative to Word would be great indeed to have. I do hope that Nisus retains Nisus Writer Express as an appliction for those that want a light simple word processor.
I don't want a light simple word processor, I want a powerful one
Like Greenpea I too created a lot of macros for Nisus Writer classic and indeed I had some bundled with version six, the "collapse/expand" macros are created by little me
I am going to have to get around to learning Perl so that I can start to really get something going with Nisus Writer Pro. I'm glad to see that with Nisus Writer Pro we can mix "Menu command" with Perl, I hope I've got that right.
With Nisus Writer classic the ability to mix the Nisus Macro Programming language with menu commands was very useful indeed.
