Is Nisus Moribund?

[Amontillado]

Hard to disagree.

There was a time when Nisus seemed more like my voice than a word processor. A few tiny sips of the koolaide and I have that feeling with Mellel now.

I still hope Nisus rises again.

[tedg]

Any issues with MacOS26?

[MacSailor]

Any issues with MacOS26?

Not yet anyway.

[jdevriendt]

We are used to ‘updating’ our software with each new OS.
It is not logical, doesn’t it?
Good software, cleanly coded, works, with exceptions, such as leaving MacOS 9 (and Nisus was then only in version 6.5).
Saving time without ‘cosmetic’ resources allows Nisus not to find itself like an arthritic granny, struggling to get up, walking, with bugs where they are surprising, or, ‘gently’ stealing your work to put it in one more cloud, etc.
With MacOS 26, I find more speed, little, but there are.
Everything continues to be all right with Mac OS 26.

[jdevriendt]

Most of NWP is just what it needs to be. It would be nice to have page styles, though, so preparing a document for different audiences could include flipping header and footer styles, margins, etc.

I agree. There's not much that I feel is missing in NWP, but if page styles could be incorporated into the "Style collection" system, that would be a great enhancement in my view. Clearly .dot templates can be set up with those differences to cater for different target audiences, but as my workflow is to apply a style collection to a pre-written document using a macro, having page styles included would be a boon.


Mark

For juggling with styles, I transcribe the publisher's PDF into a "Editions_x.doc".
I open it in Nisus, I check if it is correct and then I record it in the "Editions_x.dot" templates.
Then, I just have to import it as the only style in the work in progress, and Basta!

[xiamenese]

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For juggling with styles, I transcribe the publisher's PDF into a "Editions_x.doc".
I open it in Nisus, I check if it is correct and then I record it in the "Editions_x.dot" templates.
Then, I just have to import it as the only style in the work in progress, and Basta!

That's what I do as it is, but "page styles" would include page size, orientation and margins, which my style collections don't cover. Yes, one can make different document templates with all of those, but I still think it would be great if those parameters could be set up in a "page style" that could be applied to a pre-existing document in the way that one can currently apply a style collection.

Mark

[Amontillado]

My yearning for page styles came from a time I was active in two different writing groups. Each group had strict formatting requirements, including page headers and footers.

Changing style sets did the trick, but I always had to remember to manually change the headers and footers.