Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!sharkey!msuinfo!news
From: sticklen@pleiades.cps.msu.edu (Jon Sticklen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Nisus Questions
Message-ID: <1990Sep30.154758.5562@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
Date: 30 Sep 90 15:47:58 GMT
Sender: news@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu
Organization: Computer Science, Michigan State University, E.  Lansing
Lines: 42

I am evaluating Nisus from the perspective of a current FullWrite
user. There are some questions I cannot answer:
        1) I am used to developing graphics in PowerPoint, then
           copying them into FullWrite docs (using the PP "paste
           as picture" first to get then get the sizing correct).
           [I typically give a talk on a topic before I writes papers
           on that topic...]

           What I seem to see in Nisus is that when i copy in graphics from
           PowerPoint (using the clipboard) that the graphics change. Eg,
           lines that did not have arrowheads before now do have arrowheads.

           This nasty behavior takes place whether I am using the
           "character graphics" or a "graphics sheet" in Nisus. The bottom
           line is that I then have to correct the graphics in Nisus.

           Is there some way to copy in graphics from other applications
           (like pictures from PowerPoint) such that Nisus will leave them
           alone?

        2) A related question - again having to do with graphics
           capabilties of Nisus.

           In FullWrite, I got very used to using "Sidebars." These
           were areas that I could place anywhere on a page I wanted,
           and into which I could insert pictures, and text, or whatever.
           I typically used this to build Figures+Captions that I could then
           place.


Thanks in advance for any suggestions. By the way, I find Nisus to be
really good for performance, and for easy of use - especially for
using the styles in it. It would be a LOT more friendly if
           you could define one style on top of another. That would allow
	   a user to change all the font of a paper at once instead of
	   changing each major styles font. Ditto line spacing, and ditto...

The graphics problems I am having with importing is my real hang up
with Nisus right now although.


  ---jon---