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From: chow@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Christopher Chow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Nisus 3.01 and Coach Pro 3.1
Message-ID: <1990Sep3.111943.27317@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 3 Sep 90 11:19:43 GMT
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Yesterday, my copy of Nisus 3.0 and Coach Pro 3.01 from MacConnection
arrived. (An aside: MacConnection changed its shipping policy so that
it delivers on a saturday only if you request it!)  Both Nisus and
Coach Pro seem really nice, however, I'm having a problem integrating
both of them:  In Nisus, Coach is lacking some functionality - 

1.  Assigning the 'Suggest Spelling' hotkey to anything other than
    certain <option>-<character> does not invoke the suggest spelling
    function unless I go back and manually highlite the word Coach Pro
    beeped at.  Of course, its a total diaster to use <option>-<character>
    as the hotkey for 'Suggest Spelling', since <option> is used by Coach
    Pro to abort the current search.

  2.  Batch checking dosen't have much functionality:  The spelling
      check is done, but Coach Pro is unable to insert the correct spelling
      back into the document.

It seems a shame that these two programs don't seem to work together
very well.  Being a law student, I find having Coach Pro's legal
words very useful, not to mention that it is also a superb spelling
checking.  Nisus is feature loaded, does things the right way (I think
storing documents as a data fork=TEXT file, resource fork=formatting
is the proper way to do things... its amazing that other word
processors dont do this);  I'd hate to have to choose between them.

Anyway, if anyone out there has gotten these two program to work
together, I'd appreciate some help. Since I don't get a chance to read
this newsgroup very often, please send mail to me.  I'll post a
summary in a few days.

Christopher Chow
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