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From: kathie@tekecs.GWD.TEK.COM (Kathleen Huddleston)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: NISUS wordprocessor
Summary: A little more information
Keywords: nisus
Message-ID: <11257@tekecs.GWD.TEK.COM>
Date: 7 Apr 89 21:51:47 GMT
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Reply-To: kathie@tekecs.GWD.TEK.COM (Kathleen Huddleston)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Wilsonville, OR
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I have Nisus (upgraded from Qued/M) and although I am a Word enthusiast,
I can appreciate that Nisus has some nice features -- Especially its
word search/replace (grep) capability.  It also has interesting grahphics
capabilities.  It has several modes: Text entry, preview (which can be
viewed simultaneously to editing), and also a graphics layers where you
can draw lines and boxes or paste pictures.  You can also paste pictures
into the text layer and they are then treated like the picture
characters in Word.  Another nice feature is a limited "finder" type
window where you can open documents (even multiple ones), etc.  In fact,

I liked everything about the interface EXCEPT it has this one absurdly
long catch-all menu which I think is called Tools that includes every
feature in the world and literally is several screen long. I could not
believe they would make such a glaring interface error and hope it gets
fixed in a future release (hierarchical menus at least -- or even dialog
boxes).

Also, I will stick with Word for now because I know it very well, but
for longer documents or documents where grep would be useful, I would
recommend it.