NOTE: this software is for Classic Mac OS (eg: OS 9) and cannot be used on Mac OS X.
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• PowerPC only
• Runs in Classic mode under Mac OSX
• Runs on any Macintosh running 8.5 or later
• Added outlining (see the Outline submenu of the Tools menu).
• Added the Document Manager (see the Documents menu to the right of the Gear/Cogwheel menu).
• Changed: moving paragraphs (selected by "quadruple-clicking" 4-clicks) has been changed. Copy and Paste now allow you to copy a paragraph by pasting either at the end of the paragraph in front, or at the beginning of the paragraph behind the new location. Drag and Drop adds an additional return at the end of the selection.
• Changed: the "Plain Text" command no longer clears user defined styles. This was changed so that choosing plain text within an outline would not break the outline.
• Fixed a crashing bug when quickly typing more than 32 characters in the Catalog window.
• Fixed support for importing and exporting footnotes using the Mercury RTF filter. The changed filter itself (installed with this version) is also required for footnotes to work.

• Fixed a bug in which, if you have a multi-column document with headers and/or footers, the headers and/or footers would neither print nor display in the Layout Page window.

• Nisus Writer version 6.0.2 is PowerPC only.
• The Registration/Serial Number dialog will now get the Name and Organization from the Internet control panel (Internet Config) if they are available.
• Fixed display bugs when switching from Main Document view to Footnote/Endnote and/or Header/Footer view.
• Fixed a bug in which some System-wide menus prevented Command-C from working. Examples are the Simplified Chinese Input menu, and the PGP menu.
• If a window is set to display the footnotes (or headers/footers) and you do a find, it will work correctly even if the 'Include Notes/Hdrs/Ftrs' button is not checked. The active view will be searched, but not any of the others.
• The 'B' option of the 'Find All' command (in macros) now properly allows summary finds.
• Fixed crash in 'Edit Word Services' when trying to remove a previously added service.
• Fixed a bug in the Widow & Orphan Control that removed color attributes as it fixed the widows and orphans.
• The effect of the 'Maximum Scrolling Speed' option in the preferences has been changed. A preferences value of 14 means scroll one line every 1/60th of a second (no acceleration). A value of 0 means scroll one line every second. Values above 14 add acceleration, every 2 seconds it speeds up by one line per 1/60th of a second, with a maximum of the preference value minus 13. So for a value of 15 the maximum is 2 (one step of acceleration), at 16 the maximum is 3, etc.
• The 'Enable Line Wrap' and 'Paste' submenus should now remain active at all times. This is so that macros won't fail at odd times. This does introduce a problem with the Paste command: if the Clipboard is empty and there is text selected in the document, choosing the Paste will delete the selected text.
• Option-clicking on the 'Desktop' button in the Catalog window will now switch to the finder much more reliably.
• Fixed a problem where Nisus Writer asked for confirmation of a serial number when switching from OS X to earlier versions of the OS and back again.
• Fixed the Japanese 'Copy to Find' problem (font size was being set to 255 in find dialog).
• Prevents Glossary items from being expanded while editing them. This prevents recursion problems if a Glossary item contains itself (many null characters were being inserted).
• Glossary items that contain a word separator (space, command, tab, etc.) should now expand properly, with the insertion point ending up in the correct place.
• Added a few more words to the AutoCorrect Spelling glossary.
• Added new macros to the Text Editing Macros file: Bibliography Capitalization, Form Paragraphs Selections (for non-contiguous paragraphs), Smart Quotes, and Straight Quotes.
• Fixed the Command (double-click) macro in the Nisus Macros file so that double-clicking a URL with only "www.domain.whatever" will launch a Web Browser.
• Enhanced the Mercury RTF XTND filter to both read and write RTF files in any language (WorldScript as well as Roman), and handle footnotes.

• Nisus Writer 68K version is now released.
• Navigation Services is now a preference you can turn on (in the Startup preferences).
• The TidBITS AutoCorrect glossary, created by Adam Engst consisting of over 2700 words is now shipped in the Glossaries folder of the Nisus Writer Tools folder.
• A selection of Nisus New Files is now available in the Stationery folder of the Nisus Writer Tools folder (none of them require the English (UK) dictionary.
• The HTML documentation has been compressed and optimized.
• A new Nisus Table Tool released which updates the functioning of some menus.

Nisus Writer 6.0 Features

• Zoom feature opens a floating window which shows an enlarged (or reduced) version of the text at and near the insertion point.
• Added an automatic Glossary Expansion feature. When turned on, any abbreviation you have defined will be expanded automatically as you type. The setting is saved in the preferences file.
• Added a new feature called the Nisus Text Analyzer Tool. It analyzes the text of the current document and produces phrase lists according to relevance indexes. These can be a useful starting point for indexing. Can also be used for very quickly producing a word list of your document. Also lists number of words, number of unique words, and the frequency of each word and phrase.
• Support for Navigation Services was added, including Open dialog preview of text documents, Nisus Writer Glossary documents and Macro documents.
• Support for contextual menus was added.
• A new Grammar Checker is included.
• IBM's dictation software "ViaVoice" is supported.
• Importing of graphics files using QuickTime has been added.
• A new XTND RTF Filter from Mercury Software has been added.
• Feature added to allow you to copy the displayed data in the Word Count dialog.
• A special file save called Nisus¨TextPlus was added to the list in the Save dialog. It saves the document as a text file with all the notes (endnotes or footnotes) converted to text.
• Nisus Table tool now remembers font setting of each empty cell.
• Platinum menu background. (This is not yet support for Appearance Manager.)
• Options added to the spelling dialog to allow you to turn off capitalization and repeat words checking.
• Checkbox in Find/Replace window for turning on/off search through headers/footers and footnotes.
• Catalog Icon display has been added for users of MacOS 8.5-9.0.4
• Save Settings button, in the Print dialog, saves our custom Print setting panel items (e.g. page numbers as numbered in document).
• Feature to make Find/Replace more friendly. If the Find/Replace checkbox "In Selection" is on, but there is no selection and the user initiates a search/replace operation, the checkbox is automatically turned off and the operation carried out on the active document. Previously forgetting that it was on would cause "Expression Not Found" messages and frustration.
• When search is run from a macro, search through headers/footers and footnotes is always turned off. From a macro, you can always perform the search explicitly in these other components.
• When opening a new document, using the supplied Nisus New File template, the counters are setup to be hierarchically related and Custom Counter F is set to not display but to re-set all other counters.

• Fixed old bug traced back to NW 4.1. If catalog is opened the selection of font in the "Font" menu with shift key sets this font for the catalog display. When the font and its associated script uses TSM services the catalog window starts accepting input from any keystrokes that follow. This bug caused misbehavior of the catalog in NW 4.1 and 5.0 and a crash in NW 5.1
• Fixed the failure to display and print frame/border in layout view. Now displays in color if available, to help distinguish lines.
• Fixed crash related to XTND opening of files in certain cases.
• Fixed a crashing bug in the Table tool when deleting a footnote.
• Solved Spell Catcher problem when communicating with Nisus Writer.
• Enabled "Paste" item and "Paste Submenu" items even when clipboard empty. This is needed so that certain Paste commands (which do not need anything in the Clipboard) will work in macros.
• Fixed traditional Chinese Language in-line input Problem.
• Users are now prevented from deleting CR between foot-notes and headers in the notes window. Such inadvertent deletions used to cause a corruption of the footnotes.
• Fixed the following crashing bug: Open a new window, type something, do not save, open any style library, type something, do not save, quit the application. Crashes during closing and saving windows.
• Fixed occasional crashes during "Replace All" in spelling checker.
• Undo/Redo did not bring to front the window it had changed. This bug was introduced in NW 5.0 while battling to get Open Doc to work.
• The dialog for inserting a formatted page break did not process negative numbers properly sometime causing a crash.
• "Find in selection" checkbox, after pressing the Find button is now restored.
• In "Macroized" search/replace patterns any quotes present in the search expression are now doubled, as the resulting macro needs that.
• Flashing Header/Footnote window bug fixed.
• "Additional Index As" used to have a limit of only one additional index for each selected text. This limit no longer applies.
• When spellchecking a mixed language scripts document, it did not skip text in non-dictionary scripts. Now it does.
• Fixed the "out-dent paragraph bug" which sometimes caused the text to run beyond the end of the right wrapped line.
• Automatically executing macro names became case sensitive. Now not sensitive to case.
• Remaining known bug: Recently it was discovered that on System 9 or later when graphics layer is active and the "Front Of Text/Behind Text" button is clicked to open the menu and while the menu is open the mouse is moved over the next button on the left, NW hangs for a very long time (some minutes.) All versions since NW 4.1 are affected. This also occurs if the open menu is the "Text Wrap" button pop-down.

Nisus Writer 5.1.3 Update changes

• FIXED: The Measurement Preference dialog. Previously the lower half of the dialog was disabled.
• REMOVED: MacLinkPlus XTND translators have been removed from the Installer. This may help with XTND/Dataviz translator conflicts, or not.

• FIXED: Script clicking problem. Click into another script did not change the script in spite of proper settings in the preferences.
• FIXED: Copy, Paste, Cut, Select are always enabled when any dialog is on top.
• FIXED: Case sensitivity in search. Two byte Japanese characters should never be uppercased even during a case insensitive search.
• FIXED: Changing from PowerFind Pro to Power Find did not care if the character was part of a two byte set but, if the character was grep special character, it converted unconditionally.
• FIXED: User Dictionary problem enabling an unlimited number of words in the User Dictionary.
• FIXED: OpenDoc menus. When the part is activated we provide our own File and Edit menus.
• FIXED: Opendoc selection crasher. If you have a part and a Nisus Writer graphic and select a part, then shift-select graphics element. You got the warning dialog, you clicked OK and crashed.
• CHANGED: In Windows menu the document item of modified document is in italic now rather than underlined as before. Underlining does not work well with Japanese script.
• ADDED: GXMagicLib to the Nisus Writer. It is added to PPC version only. If system 8 and GXGrafix and PPC and GXMagic extension then GXMagic printing is enabled.
• REMOVED: Removed the item "Kanji Lookup".

• FIXED: Adding abbreviations was case insensitive and abbreviations having names differing only in case were not added.
• FIXED: Paste enabled in glossary dialog
• FIXED: Macro and gloassaries submenus displayed in system script
• FIXED: Both old and new colors may be choosen in the dialog. Besides the default behaviour like in NW 5.0, that is when starting styles from the scratch the old black color is the style color
• FIXED: OpenDoc item in Edit menu is always enabled now. The first item of OpenDoc submenu is enabled when inserting anything is OK. The rest of the items of the submenu are disabled if OpenDoc is not initialized
• FIXED: The following menu items Cut, Copy, Paste, Select All are enabled whenever dialogs appear: i.e. Macroize, Check Spelling, Thesaurus, Jump. In addition Copy, Select All are enabled when Catalog or Character Table are in front
• FIXED: Floating Toolbars Problem. NW 4.0 had a bug. there is an open window and few toolbars. When you want to print the toolbars have to be hidden. They do not show again when the printing is finished. To show them again you have to select them from the menu again