From: Christian Matzerath matze@uumail.de Charset: ISO-8859-1 Mark Masny, you said on 11/1/01 5:01 AM >As one who is on the cusp of buying Nisus Writer, and also one who likes Word 2001, I would be interested in hearing what it is about Writer that appeals to writers of books and articles where the multi-linguistic and advanced search capabilities are not overtly relevant. Hi Mark, most general pro's and con's have been said, I just want to give one specific example: In ancient computer times (beginning of the 80's) a friend of mine wrote into an ATARI computer. He always liked the little feature with which he could rewrite instantly a "Dreher" (sorry don't know the english term for this, means changed positiosn of two characters as the last two in "positiosn") He only had to hit a shortcut and it became "position". I always found this feature a real textediting one and I had to write with Word 5.1, Word 6 and Word 98 asking myself why these programs don't have this. Then I found Nisus Writer! In Nisus Writer even me could write a little macro in a rush, which does this change of two wrong characters to their correct position, just place the curser behind those two, hit command BT (for "Buchstaben tauschen" = change letters) and voilá! To cut a long story short Nisus Writer lets you role your own writer tool. And if you have tasks which seem too complicated to role by your own, ask kindly for help here at the list or at the hub. You will be astonished what is possible in Nisus world. Best Matze
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