Eat Your Dogfood
One of the best things about developing a word processor is that we get to use everyday for our normal work. I am writing our 2005 Marketing Plan right now (lots of graphics and tables, probably 50+ pages once I am finished.) This is my first chance to really use styles for a big-ish document. This is really exciting for me because one of the things that made me want my own word processor in the first place was my frustration with creating structured documents in Word.
Of course, my experience with Nisus Writer is probably like no one else. While I write our marketing plan, I am also testing Nisus under Tiger. When I find a bug, I report it to our engineering team or I fix it myself, which makes for a funny way of working. Tuesday I started writing and then spent most of the day instead making typing more responsive under Tiger. (Its really responsive now.) It paid off though, my writing Wednesday went much faster!