Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!qmw-cs!jeremyr From: jeremyr@cs.qmw.ac.uk (Jeremy Roussak) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: 2 Nisus Questions Message-ID: <3125@sequent.cs.qmw.ac.uk> Date: 4 Dec 90 07:45:13 GMT References: <2850@esquire.dpw.com> Distribution: comp Organization: Computer Science Dept, QMW, University of London, UK. Lines: 18 In <2850@esquire.dpw.com> baumgart@esquire.dpw.com (Steve Baumgarten) writes: >Of course, where Nisus really shines is in its macros. It would be >easy to write a macro that searched for all paragraphs with a >"Heading" style, selected the paragraph and the following N lines >of the next paragraph and applied the style throughout your document. I must confess that this was one of the things that irritated me about Nisus when I reviewed it recently for a British magazine. There are, IMHO, too many things in Nisus which have been left to macros, widow and orphan control being just one. Of course you can write wonderful macros which do lots of nice formatting things (such as smart quotes), but if you have to reformat a document before it's printed you start to drift away from WYSIWYG. I found myself writing a Print macro to do all this and then being (often pleasantly) surpised at the way my printed document looked. Come back nroff, all is forgiven :-) Jeremy Roussak