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From: pazzani@ics.uci.edu (Michael Pazzani)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: FullWrite vs. Nisus
Message-ID: <26EC4D26.18071@ics.uci.edu>
Date: 11 Sep 90 02:34:14 GMT
References: <#3725@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: pazzani@ics.uci.edu (Michael Pazzani)
Organization: UC Irvine Department of ICS
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In article <#3725@cup.portal.com> ts@cup.portal.com (Tim G Smith) writes:
>> Well, I heab a rumor that Nisus actually wobks.  FullWrite doesn't really.
>
>Hmmmm...then how do you explain the 500 page document I'm printing
>right now from FullWrite?
>
>						Tim Smith

Just lucky I guess.  I use Fullwrite almost daily.  I bought it
because at the time, it was the only MAC system that integrated
bibliographies.  Of course, I expected it would be able to use the APA
style of bibliography but it doesn't.  It crashes at least once a week
on me, especially during spelling correction, find-and-replace,
sidebars, and outlines. It is also very slow (on a MAC IIci with 5mb)
with large or complex documents (e.g., including pictures, sidebars,
footnotes).  I used to run it on a Mac II with the same set of errors.

I'm also envious that none of grammar checkers that I know of seem to
work with Fullwrite.  

I do like all the features it has, and I'll probably upgrade from 1.1
to 2.0, but I wish it were more robust.  But the more I hear about
Nisus, the more I like it.  If I do get up the energy to switch, it'll
either be to that or Word (because eveyone else around here uses it.)

Has anyone used 2.0 long enough to find out if it stable or quicker?