Nisus Software, Inc.

These are the release notes for an older version of Nisus Writer Express.
For current information, please see our version and release notes archive.


Changes For Version 3.0

New features:
  • Floating images (text wrap around images).
  • Glossaries (expands custom abbreviations to any kind of formatted text).
  • Widow and orphan control, "keep with next" paragraph, and "keep together" options.
  • Footnotes can now span multiple pages.
  • Additional formatting menus: Small Caps, Shadow, etc.
  • Can double-click MathType and MathMagic images to edit them in their original application. Images opened in MathType are also linked, so if you save changes, the image in the document is automatically updated. (Note: this requires that you have separately purchased a copy of one of these applications).
  • Switched PowerFind Pro (regular expression) engine to Oniguruma. New features:
    • Full look-ahead/behind support, eg: "(?<!red)".
    • Unicode character properties, eg: "\p{Thai}".
    • Named back-references and subexpressions, eg: "(?<color>red)".
    • Possessive quantifiers, eg: "++".

  • Notable fixes:
  • Various fixes to improve RTF compatibility.
  • Improved HTML export.
  • Fixed line spacing is exact, even if there are embedded subscripts, superscripts, images, or alternate fonts.
  • Stylesheet previews accurately reflect the ruler as it would appear on the page.
  • Fixed: very tall images with a line height multiple applied cause Page layout to stall.
  • Fixed: poor quality when printing (or Save to PDF) of PICT graphics.
  • Fixed: a variety of issues with high unicode code points (those requiring surrogate pairs in UTF-16).
  • Fixed for Tiger: lines improperly broken on parentheses and brackets (eg: "array[5]" or "Si(111)").
  • The switch to a new PowerFind Pro engine eliminates a variety of bugs with the old engine.
  • Fixed: possible crash when closing documents that at some point displayed footnote content in a tooltip.
  • Fixed: a few cases where the style conflict dialog could be erroneously displayed.
  • Fixed: some issues working with characters that had alternate glyph forms applied.
  • Fixed: a few cases where smart quotes could curl in the wrong direction.
  • Fixed: private-use-area characters used as non-base characters could disrupt font substitution from picking a working font.