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From: svc@well.UUCP (Leonard Rosenthol)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: NISUS wordprocessor
Summary: I love it, but that's my opinion!
Message-ID: <11227@well.UUCP>
Date: 3 Apr 89 16:57:21 GMT
References: <882@tasis.utas.oz>
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In article <882@tasis.utas.oz>, ben@tasis.utas.oz (Ben Lian) writes:
> Does anyone know anything about NISUS, "The Amazing Word Processor for
> the Macintosh", from Paragon Concepts?  How does it compare with MS Word
> 3.02?
> 
	Let me start by saying that I think Word (all versions) should be shot
and put out to pasture...With that in mind.
	If you need a WORD processor, and not a page layout package - then get 
Nisus!  Nisus was designed for the user who needs tools to edit words, and is
not so concerned with pagelayout capabilities.  This is not to say that it does
not have them (it does do multiColums, text wraparound of graphics, built-in
Draw package, etc.) but it's strengths lie in text processing.
	With tools like unlimited Undo's, multiple editable clipboards, full
GREP/Regular Expression search/replace, Macros, and more it makes editing 
documents a breeze!  It also features many standard functions such as Indexing,
Table of Contents, Glossary (very powerful ones), style sheets (needs some work
here), etc.
	I do however want to say a few things about the interface and the
adhereance to the Mac Interface Guidelines.  As applications go, they did a 
pretty good job - but it is not perfect.  They doa a few things which are not
standard and may confuse some users, but compared to Word...
	Anyway, Nisus is my current WP recommendation for those who need to
process words and not layout pages.

Disclaimer: This is my opinion and no one elses!

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