On 8/1/00, Geoffrey Heard wrote: [ ... ] > >Wouldn't it be great if Quark XPress could use >>Nisus as its story editor? I'd love it! But only if they can >>transfer style sheets. That's where the bottleneck comes in.... > >Of course, you can use Word and PageMaker -- and the style sheets >translate. Unfortunately that is a prolific source of crashes in PM. You >can use tags, though, out of ANY WP. > >In reality, you can use any WP as a story editor for PM. The stories are >linked. Change and save them, then go back to PM, and with two key >commands, update the links. Voila, your new text is in place. You failed to notice the change in page layout programs. You can't use *any* program as a story editor in Quark -- not without re-placing the story. And Quark is the page layout program real publishers use. And neither Quark nor PageMaker imports Nisus files *with formatting*. Particularly not with style sheets. That kills Nisus is a story editor, or as a "part." (I always thought Nisus was stupid to position itself as an OpenDoc container. It should have made itself an OpenDoc *part*. Not that it matters any more. But a good word processor, with kerning, as an OpenDoc part was what OpenDoc really needed.) And tags are *not* an answer -- particularly if you have to go back and re-edit the tagged story.... >Graphics are the same. Graphics are easy -- but they also don't need re-flowing every time you edit them. Text is not easy -- not when you need style sheets. This is the feature where Nisus really falls down in *my* book. But somehow it always gets left off the upgrade list.... -- Bob Waltz waltzmn@skypoint.com "The one thing we learn from history -- is that no one ever learns from history."
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