For my personal writing this isn’t important, but at work it is, and it works fine-I’ve literally never had a problem with it.Īt version 2.0, Nisus adds floating objects, and they work in a typically well-designed manner. Nisus uses “RTF” as its native format this makes it very easy to send documents to people who use Word. This makes the document very easy to read in iBooks on the iPad 3, and a lot more useful in general. Today it’s rock-solid, and the resulting PDF that I upload to my web site links to other web pages, links the table of contents, and generates PDF navigation based on the heading levels. This lets me make sure that all of my formatting is handled with styles (in Word, accessing styles was annoying enough that sometimes I just didn’t bother), and it gives me a chance to proof-read the document again.Ĭompletely reformatting my 100-page Gods & Monsters rulebook from straight text to a fully-formatted version took just a few hours, and that was with beta-version crashes. When I convert a document from Word to Nisus, I like to take the raw text and reformat it using the strengths of Nisus, rather than just open the Word version in Nisus 2. The outline appears as a navigation column to the left of the document window. Nisus Writer Pro got “the document is the outline” in 1.0, and it got “the outline is the document” in 1.2-and it’s much easier to use than my copy of Word’s modal version 1. If you’ve followed my occasional rant about word processors, you’ll know that the one thing that kept me from switching away from Word for a long time was its support for full-document outlines, where the document is the outline and the outline is the document. Getting to styles are a single click and they’re set up the same way as formatting the actual text: using styles to format text is just as easy as formatting the text directly, which means I’m no longer tempted to apply formatting to text outside of styles, only to rue it later when I need to change formatting throughout the document. It’s rare that its feature set gets in the way of writing as happens in other word processors (*cough* Microsoft Word *cough*). But I didn’t buy Nisus 1.x because I could program it I bought it because it made writing easier. If you’ve been paying attention to the Hacks and gaming tools section of my blog, you’ve seen the occasional Nisus script. I’ve been using Nisus Writer Pro 2.0 since last year. Even though it was a reskinned third-party product, it simplified the skin enough that I wasn’t asking “what is this software for?” and used it to listen to music again. Hit fifty or sixty pages and you could go out to eat in the time it took to redraw the screen. The first time was probably for Ashton-Tate’s FullWrite, and that turned out to be a bust-it could create amazing one-page documents, but exceed about ten pages and the Macintosh slowed to a crawl. It’s very rare that I get really excited by software.
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