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From: davism@creatures.cs.vt.edu (Mat Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Technical Word Processing
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Date: 5 Jun 90 17:12:11 GMT
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From what I just read in the latest MacWorld, it looks as if Nisus 3.0 might
be a good word processor, although I don't remember enough details to relate
it to technical word processing in particular.  I'm interested in hearing
more about Nisus (3.0), in particular in comparison with Word.

I had considered using FullWrite for a lot of my research note-taking and so
on because of the built-in drawing features, but I decided to stick with
Word 4.0 and MacDraw II when I found out that a FW paragraph style couldn't
"include" a ruler, but was limited to changing *both* the left and right
margins by an equal amount.  (I frequently use bulleted lists where there's
a hanging indent for the first line, and I couldn't get FW to do that using
only a style.)

There was one other missing feature (or misfeature) of FullWrite that caused
me to decide to stick with Word, but offhand I can't remember that one.

	Mat