Nisus Text Analyzer and other features nobody ever talks about…

[Þorvarður]

There are certain Nisus features that nobody has ever mentioned here on the forum, as far as I can remember. This could mean that working with such features is self-evident or that nobody is using them. One such feature is Nisus Text Analyzer (File > Text Analysis…)

Has anyone ever seriously used this feature? And if so, for what?

I don't think it can help me write better text. The only advantage I see is that the statistics can be copied and pasted into another document were they then automatically appear as a table. Linguists who are analyzing a certain text may want to know how many words the longest sentence has and how many words there are on average per sentence. Apart from that, I can't think of anything else that might be useful. … Although seeing all long sentences in a vertical list and being able to jump to them in the document just by clicking on the Find Results is actually pretty cool… :–)

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Compare this with the first two pages of Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. The text by Conrad has Flesch Reading Ease of 66,4, which I think means, it's easer to understand or read than my post above! That doesn't make much sense.

[jeab]

Thank you for reminding me about this feature, Þorvarður. I just checked my latest document, and the longest sentence has 62 words (or actually 58, since four words ending in a colon were included in the count). I will certainly use this feature once in a while to help limiting myself when my writing becomes too eager.

[David Sharp]

That indeed is seriously cool, and something I'm going to start using forthwith.

Like many people, I imagine, I often get into routines with software, using only the functions I know and never bothering to explore other ones.

Long live Nisus!