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From: raday@thunder.UUCP (Alan Day)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Nisus
Message-ID: <389@thunder.UUCP>
Date: 27 May 88 14:56:24 GMT
Organization: Lakehead U; Thunder Bay, Ontario
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In a letter to me, Greg Robbins writes
>In article <380@thunder.UUCP> you write:
>>I would like to reiterate some points discussed in earlier
>>submissions on Math typesetting for the Mac. Hopefully FullWrite
>>and/or Nissus (even Word?) might include these in future releases.
> 
>Sorry, Nisus will not offer any support for scientific and mathematical
>typesetting in the first release.  And frankly, probably not in
>the second or third either.  Unless the powers on high at Paragon
>are convinced by a barrage of phone calls and letters that there
>is a large demand for technical features in a word processor,
>programmers will not be assigned to the task.
> 
>>       (1) multiple (adjustable?) levels of sub- and super-scripts.
>>       (2) Intuitive CHARACTER overstrike capability
> 
>Both good ideas, both also currently lacking in Nisus.
>            
>>       (3) a general wish would be macros and command-key assignment
> 
>We hope to have QUED/M-style macros in the first release of Nisus.
>Command key assignments will definitely be included.  Any item in
>any menu can be assigned a command key equivalent.
> 
>Nisus is currently slated for an August release.
> 
>Greg                                 grobbins@ucsd.uucp
>Paragon Concepts, Inc.                       @ucsd.edu
> 
>The above does not represent official views of Paragon Concepts, Inc.
> 
 If there is anyone else out there who would li}ike some easy math typeset
capabilitites, PLEASE PLEASE phone Paragon
        (619) 481-1477
        (800) 922-2993 (US, outside CA)