Widows and Orphans

maurerc · Post by **maurerc** » 2004-11-12 05:43:47

Is there any way to kill widows and orphans in NWE?

rmark · Post by **rmark** » 2004-11-12 13:35:56

maurerc,

We will never kill widows nor orphans.

We will, in due time save and protect them as they should be.

[tongue in cheek] Right now we're struggling against Amalek. [/tongue in cheek]

hronek · Post by **hronek** » 2004-12-31 06:25:55

[quote="rmark"]maurerc,

We will [b][i]never[/b][/i] kill widows nor orphans.

We will, in due time [b][i]save[/b][/i] and [b][i]protect[/b][/i] them as they should be.

So, yes, very funny, but what is with the "keep on same page"-feature? I cannot find it.

midwinter · Post by **midwinter** » 2005-01-01 09:46:22

hronek wrote:maurerc,

We will never kill widows nor orphans.

We will, in due time save and protect them as they should be.

So, yes, very funny, but what is with the "keep on same page"-feature? I cannot find it.

Weird. I've seen it, and now I can't find it either.

hronek · Post by **hronek** » 2005-01-01 10:38:21

[quote="midwinter"]
Weird. I've seen it, and now I can't find it either.[/quote]

Well, it's a "workaround"-Wordprocessor (not "express") and beta at best; no adequate numbering (I'd have to change sections-numbers, I need subsection-numbers), no softwrapping, no non-breaking space, no m-dash, n-dash, problems with encoding (opening a txt-file, the special-characters are wrong, even if I try to match the encodings); but we do have tables, which is rarely the most important feature of a word-processor; etc.; Nisus Writer classic was the best choice for word-processing on a mac (but I have no classic-mode on my mac anymore). So let's wait ... (I'll have to learn latex; it's easy in its basics, but I'll have to change the layouts, and that's not easy ...)

midwinter · Post by **midwinter** » 2005-01-01 13:32:33

Well, I've not had any trouble with em dashes (shift + option + - ), but I have had no end of trouble from a document created in Word and then moved over to NWE. Footnotes are funky, styles lost or applied where none should be, and then, oddly, I can't add page numbers. They appear on the first page and that's all. Word processors on the Mac are such a catch-22. I love NWE. It's my preferred work environment, but it's flakey. Word is more powerful than all choices, but I don't like working in it. Mariner's font smoothing is hideous. Mellel is, um, FUGLY. Openoffice is openoffice. Neoffice/J is ugly. Abiword is ugly.

Harumph.

hronek · Post by **hronek** » 2005-01-01 15:19:24

[quote="midwinter"]
> Well, I've not had any trouble with em dashes (shift + option + - ),

You're right, that must have been in an earlier version. Sorry.

> I love NWE. It's my preferred work environment, but it's flakey. Word is more powerful than all choices, but I don't like working in it. Mariner's font smoothing is hideous. Mellel is, um, FUGLY. Openoffice is openoffice. Neoffice/J is ugly. Abiword is ugly.

I loved Nisus Writer; hope love to NW-Express will come in an later version; of course I won't give up so soon.