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From: lorner@csuchico.edu (Lance Orner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Info on Nisus
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Date: 16 Jul 90 06:43:51 GMT
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Ever since the dawn on Mac Time (or somewhere therebouts), Microsoft Word has
always been known as the word processor to get if you want a heavyweight
word cruncher.  And for a long time, everything has been well and good in the
world with that piece of knowledge behind you.  But more recently, more and
more whispers have contained the word 'Nisus' if you are considering a new
processor.

And this, by chance, happens to be my exact predicament.  I am looking for a 
word processor to do a lot of writing with (school papers and such) and would
also like one that wouldn't be to bad with writing code in one language or
another.

I have usually used Word for most of my jobs, and I have really come to like
the overall completeness of the program.  It does nearly everything well, and 
would seem like a hard program to top.  (Using ver. 4.0)

With Nisus, I have heard about the wonderfull powers of the macros, among other
great things.  I know that Nisus does lack the outliner (which I never use) and
style sheets (which I don't use to their full advantage anyways), and so some
of the features that Nisus seems to lack doesn't matter to me anyways.

But what of the rest of the differences between Word and Nisus?  What might be
different about the two?  What could give me reason to switch over?  In short,
which one is better?

I'm asking quite a bit, but I've never been able to sit down with Nisus and
experiment, although from what I've heard of so far, it seems really good.
Has anybody used it?  Or used the new Nisus 3.0?

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--Lance M. Orner             |  Without the software to run the
California St. Univ., Chico  |  hardware, you get _nowhere_!
lorner @ csuchico.edu        |          --unknown cartoon