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From: mjohnson@Apple.COM (Mark B. Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: NISUS wordprocessor
Message-ID: <28430@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 5 Apr 89 17:32:16 GMT
References: <882@tasis.utas.oz> <90377@felix.UUCP> <9495@claris.com>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <9495@claris.com> drc@claris.com (Dennis Cohen) writes:
>In article <90377@felix.UUCP> kehr@felix.UUCP (Shirley Kehr) writes:
>> 
>> The reviews I've seen (here?) basically point out that it is superior for
>> manipulating words, especially doing search/replace. But Word is superior
>> for final layout of pages. For example, I beleive I read that NISUS does
>> not have headers and footers yet.
>>
>
>Just as a point of information, NISUS has headers, footers, indexing, and
>TOC generation.  What it doesn't have yet is footnoting.
>
But it can't read MS Word quick-save files nor can it save to MacWrite (although
it can get around the latter by copying into the clipboard)...



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