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From: george@hsvaic.boeing.com (George Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Just My Opinion: MS Word 4.0 vs. Nisus
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Date: 11 Apr 91 11:40:04 GMT
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long@mcntsh.enet.dec.com (Rich Long) and dave@PRC.Unisys.COM (David
Lee Matuszek) write about Nisus...
> >[about Word and Nisus]

>  To his comments let me add that I have tried the Nisus demo, and like it (but
>  WHY didn't they include the help file?). My beefs are:

>  o	RAM based. Uh-uh. Nope. Makes it darn hard to read LARGE files. Qued
>  has the same problem.

>  o	No tables. I use this Word feature ALL the time. I want this
>  integrated, not some random add-on program.

>  o	No color drawing on color Macs.

>  If these things are fixed, I might buy Nisus, because it is nifty in other
>  ways.

I also tried the demo, though only briefly.  I didn't switch from
FullWrite because one of the most important things to me is an
integrated outliner.  MSWord has one, but the user interface is awful.
I understand that there are other outliners (e.g., Acta) and other
word processing programs that either aren't as full-featured as
FullWrite or have ugly user interfaces.

Except for the outliner, I would probably have bought Nisus.  I really
like the idea of being able to use it to edit source code and have
font and style changes that I see but that the compilers don't.

Hmm..., What would an outline look like to a compiler?  I guess I'd
want the ability to say whether or not the titles, heading numbers,
and such were hidden (in the resource fork).

George Williams
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