On Tue, 1 Aug 2000 8:31 AM, Robert B. Waltz <mailto:waltzmn@SKYPOINT.COM> wrote: >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.... > >You failed to notice the change in page layout programs. No, I got that. >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. SOME real publishers use. Lots of real publishers use PM. Lots of real publishers use both. Some quite unreal publishers use PM or both! >And neither Quark nor PageMaker imports Nisus files *with formatting*. >Particularly not with style sheets. True. But as I indicated, importing MS stylesheets is a source of problems in PM. >That kills Nisus is a story editor, or as a "part." Yep. You also have to wonder whether "real" publishers would use it anyway, given that many choose to use Quark which basically won't work with ANY WP. Maybe it just wouldn't fit in with workflow. >And tags are *not* an answer -- particularly if you have to >go back and re-edit the tagged story.... Actually, this exchange has given me an idea I should have thought of years ago, about setting up tags in TypeIt4Me. Food for thought. >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... Agreed. I nagged Jerzy for years to get a PM filter happening, and he simply wouldn't. He did say that it was quite difficult to achieve and at one stage, he had someone outside doing if but they failed to deliver. Perhaps a way around the stylesheets problem would be to convert NW styles into tags... cheers, geoff -- Geoffrey Heard -- MarketNOW -- Marketing ideas for today. ----------------------------------------------------- FREE the 100,000 East Timorese held hostage in Indonesia. Campaign for Indonesia to pay reparations. ----------------------------------------------------- Sent by Cyberdog -----------------------------------------------------
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