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From: pv9y@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
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Subject: Re: Nisus 3.0 upgrade
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Date: 7 Sep 90 14:06:33 GMT
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In article <14873@venera.isi.edu>, jas@ISI.EDU (Jeff Sullivan) writes:
> Isn't anyone disappointed in the quality of the so-called "style
> sheets" in Nisus 3.0?  They just added rulers to the 2.0 styles!  I'd
> expect a bit more, you know?

No actually I really like the style sheets in Nisus 3.0. Most of the
time I only want to do the kind of style sheets that are handled by
the named rulers and don't want to mess with the character styles.
Other times I only want to do character styles (like don't spell check
net addresses - I'll be writing a macro to find all net addresses and
mark them as don't spell check because they are always wrong in the
checker's eyes). I use styles heavily in PageMaker 3.02 and haven't
run into any limitations in the way Nisus combines named rulers and
User styles in comparison. I don't use styles in Word 4.0 much because
I detest the interface for creating them (along with the rest of Word
4.0's interface) so I can't compare the functionality there.

My only gripe, and the guy I spoke to at Paragon said he was working
on it personally, is that Nisus styles aren't imported into PageMaker
styles. I can live without it, but it would be a nice feature.

Adam


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> jas
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> Jeffrey A. Sullivan		| Senior Systems Programmer
> jas@venera.isi.edu		| Information Sciences Institute
> jas@isi.edu   DELPHI: JSULLIVAN	| University of Southern California
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