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Feature List

Nisus Writer Special Features
Document and Editing Features
HTML
Interface/General
Catalog
Find/Replace
Headers/Footers/Footnotes
Help
Index
Info Bar
Check Spelling & etc.
Tables & Equations
Format Features
Graphic Features
Multimedia Features
Multilingual Features
Macro Features
Convenience Features
Mac OS 7.5/8 & Mac OS 9 Features
Tech Note

 

 

Nisus Writer Special Features

 

  • Unlimited undos and redos
  • Noncontiguous and rectangular selection
  • Cut, copy, or append to ten editable Clipboards
  • PowerFind and PowerFind Pro (grep) pattern-based Find/Replace
  • Store last-used and often-used Find/Replace expressions
  • Summary Search builds dynamic concordances
  • Find & replace in all open files
  • Find & replace in unopened files
  • Pamphlet layout with one click
  • Document linking and embedding

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Document and Editing Features

 

  • Full drag and drop support
  • Up to 24 open Glossary files, for quick insertion of text & graphics
  • Paste Special commands allow you to paste just text, just character attributes, or just paragraph attributes.
  • Import files by drag-and drop.
  • Word Services support for external spelling/grammar checkers
  • Automatic save and backup
  • Open & Save in any popular format (Microsoft® Word, WordPerfect®, RTF, QuarkXPress, PageMaker®, EPS & other filters included)
  • Date and time stamp
  • Dynamic cross references
  • Mail merge
  • Catalog for file management
  • 135,000+ word spelling dictionary
  • 1.4 million response thesaurus
  • When pasting text containing a marker, you'll now get a conflict dialog if there is a marker of the same name in another segment of the document.
  • Copying text by option-dragging now gives marker conflict dialogs when appropriate.
  • Added command key equivalents to the marker conflict dialog.
  • For consistency, option-selecting a marker from the Jump menu now gives the deletion confirmation alert.
  • Replaced the obsolete menu item "To Index Reference" in the Jump submenu with a new command "To Referenced Mark". If you select some text and then invoke this command, it will find the first cross-reference in the selection, and jump to the mark to which the cross-reference refers.
  • Formerly, when you deleted a marker, the location of the former mark was selected. Now this no longer happens, which is more reasonable now that we fully support marks in any of the 3 stories.
  • Previously, if you tried to assign a marker name that was already in use, you would be told of the problem after the name dialog had gone away. Now you get an alert while the name dialog is still around, so you can pick a new name without having to choose "Mark..." again.
  • For consistency, other settings saved with the document now can that the file has changed; that is, show the pencil icon and warn you of changes if you choose to close the window.
  • Appearance Manager modifications were made to the Preferences dialog.

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HTML

 

  • Background Color converts to HTML. Only new colors convert to HTML. All old colors convert to black in HTML.HTML export option
  • HTML Tool Bars

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Interface/General

 

  • Added a "Repeat" last menu command item on the Edit menu.
  • All the hidden menu commands have been brought out into submenus. For example, Copy and Paste now have their own submenus, with all the previously key-modified commands as submenus.
  • Added dynamic scrolling to document windows and to all lists in dialogs. This means that at the same time as you move the scroll button the document scrolls.
  • Added Background Color feature.
  • Added Millions of Colors feature for foreground text colors and new color names with more fixed color choices. Old color names are preserved and are the only ones which can be used to mark text for searching. Doing a search for a new or custom color will find any new or custom color.
  • Made Return characters adopt the font and size of the previous character, unless the previous character is another carriage return. This adjustment will now be done to the whole document when it is opened or reformatted, ensuring that old documents will be fixed up. (This means that the last line of your footnote/footer/document will no longer be a couple pixels too tall.)
  • Text and Picture clippings are now recognizable throughout Nisus Writer (headers/footers/footnotes as well as the main document).
  • Progress bars are now shown instead of percentages in all places where progress is indicated.
  • Changed Capitalize command to force all non-initial characters to lowercase. What required two steps to get from "NOW IS THE TIME" (lowercase then Capitalize) to "Now Is The Time" now takes only one step.
  • Now Nisus Writer will update the font menu when fonts are activated or deactivated by ATM Deluxe, MasterJuggler, or Suitcase.
  • WYSIWYG Font bitmaps are now cached in the preferences file, in resource type 'FNBM'. You'll notice a considerable slowdown to your first startup with this Nisus Writer version while the bitmaps are created and stored, and a minor (perhaps unnoticable?) slowdown to future start-ups while the bitmaps are read in. WYSIWYG font menu drawing is now instantaneous.
  • Made it possible to choose some menu items that have a submenu. For example, in the Print submenu of the File menu you do not need to choose Print from the submenu, you can just as easily choose Print on the primary level of the File menu.
  • Added "Clear Memory" command to the Memory submenu of the Edit menu. This will force the application to make more memory available on your command.
  • Promoted the Windows submenu to full menu status with its own icon to save space.
  • Added checkmark to frontmost window in Windows menu (changed files are now underlined).
  • Fixed Stack command so that all title bars are visible; tiling is also better now.
  • Added icons to various tiling commands in Windows menu.
  • Fixed/added window tiling commands, fixed modifier key + zoom box combos. Now you can:

 

Tile: control-option-shift zoombox
Stack: option zoombox
Tile Vertically (||): option-shift zoombox
Tile Horizontally (=): option-control zoombox
Tile 2 Vertically: shift zoombox
Tile 2 Horizontally: control zoombox

 

  • Included window type icons in windows menu.
  • Gave more closing options:

 

Close All These: closes all windows of the same type as the front window.
Close All Others: closes all windows not of the same type as the front window.
Close All: closes ALL windows.

 

  • The Auto menu now appears to the right of the Windows menu in the menu bar, and has a gear icon so there should be no shortage of space on the menu bar.
  • You can now rename each of the autonumber counters. Your name stays with that file but new files begin with the default names. Create a Nisus New File Stationery document to always use your choice of names for the counters.
  • Made Convert:Variables to Text handle all 3 segments of the document (Headers, Footers, and Footnotes) if it is invoked with no selection.
  • Added Date Stamp and Time Stamp menu items on the Variable Stamp submenu. These will insert "raw" text that will not update.
  • The "Display Paste Spot" setting is saved with documents.
  • Made it less likely that you will get an "out of memory" error when resizing a large picture.

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Catalog

 

  • Modified the line spacing in the Catalog so that the new color icons wouldn't get scrunched together.
  • Files in the catalog are now represented by their (color) Finder icons.
  • Individual disks' Trash folders no longer show up in the Catalog.
  • The Catalog can now be printed.
  • A colored eye icon now shows up for documents in the catalog that are in the search list
  • A caching scheme was implemented for the icons used in the Catalog. This means that if you have lots of files with the same icon, the Catalog should display somewhat faster.
  • Implemented dragging into Nisus Writer styled text with RGB text colors
  • In the Essential Files dialog, Remove is the default button when a file is selected in the right-hand list. Also, double-clicking a file in the right-hand list removes it.
  • In the Essential Files dialog, double-clicking a folder alias in the left-hand list opens it rather than adding it to the right-hand list.
  • There is a new menu command "Do AppleScript..." at the end of the Macros submenu. When you choose this from the menu, it presents a dialog in which you can type some AppleScript commands. If there is a compile (syntax) error, you'll get a chance to fix it, but if there is an execution error, the dialog will already have gone away. When invoked from a macro, it can take two arguments. The first argument is the script. The second, optional, argument is "-" which means "don't put the result on the clipboard", as with Frontier DoScript.
  • When interpreting a macro argument to Do AppleScript, convert Nisus Writer soft returns to hard returns. Note that a Nisus Writer soft return is not the same as a Script Editor soft return.

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Find/Replace

 

  • PowerFind now has all the same capabilities that PowerFind Pro always had: user-defined character sets, up to 63 found expressions, parenthesized expressions that don't count as find expressions, and shortest matches.
  • Now when you switch from PowerFind Pro to PowerFind, the PowerFind Pro strings are translated into PowerFind "bubbles".
  • Changed "Any Word" option in PowerFind Pro to put "~" in the find field (instead of the more complex search string components).
  • Added wild cards for "Any Sentence", "Any Paragraph" and "Any HTML Tag" to Find/Replace dialog. Using :S for "Any Sentence" and :H for "Any HTML Tag" metacharacters.
  • Previously, "Search All Open Files" didn't actually look at all open files if "Whole File" was off. Now it does.
  • Previously, "Search All Open Files" searched invisible style libraries. Now these are not searched.
  • Dim "Page Setup" and "Print" when the Find/Replace window is in front.
  • The Find/Replace dialog has a new Appearance Manager-savvy design. It is functionally different in that none of the buttons change when you press the option key, and there is an "In Selection" checkbox and a Macroize button. Also, previously, "Find in Selection" didn't work in Summary Search mode.
  • The various "Found" PowerFind menu items are now enabled when you are editing the Find text as well as when editing the Replace text.
  • There is a new feature that will create a macro from the contents of the Find dialog. It is available from the Macroize button in the dialog, and new items in the Find/Replace menu.
  • Defined 15 new PowerFind bubbles. These are not available from the menus, but can be created by converting from PowerFind Pro to PowerFind.
  • With the Appearance Manager (standard in system 8) you can click in the menu bar, and then (with the mouse button released) drag along the menu bar and see the menus open and close. This now works in the Find dialog's menu bar as well.
  • In the summary search window, file names are no longer truncated. Instead, if the file name is too long to fit in its field, it is followed by a soft return. That makes the other fields line up right.

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Headers/Footers/Footnotes

 

  • Find All, Replace All, and Find Next now work on headers, footers, and footnotes. The message you get at the end of Find All or Replace All now gives how many items were found in each segment of the document.
  • Previously, when you switched between segments (i.e. switched between main document window, headers/footers window or footnotes window) noncontiguous selections were forgotten. Now they are not, which is helpful for Find All.
  • Summary Search now includes headers, footers, and footnotes.
  • We now support Save, Save As, and Revert to Saved when editing headers/footers or footnotes.
  • Added indexing of text in footnotes.
  • Added cross-references in headers/footers/footnotes for marks in main text, and vice versa.

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Help

 

  • Updated Nisus Writer guide to describe the major new features and to reflect menu changes. Balloon help also reflect changes to the menus.

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Index

 

  • Made sequential page numbers appear as ranges in indices (i.e., 3-7 instead of 3,4,5,6,7)
  • Changed "Index As" dialog to explain how to do subindexing.

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Info Bar

 

  • Fixed a bug that made the little "Page number" icon in the info bar disappear.

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Check Spelling & etc.

 

  • After checking the spelling of a selection, we now set the insertion point to the end of the selection, rather than restoring the selection. This makes it easier to do a global check after the local check.
  • The spelling checker can now check 1-byte Roman text in a Japanese font, as long as it has a language style corresponding to one of our dictionaries.

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Tables & Equations

 

  • Added a Cancel button to the Insert Table dialog.
  • Made the Table Tools write less unnecessary information in the PICT resources it produces.
  • When Nisus Writer quits it automatically quits the Table Tool and/or the Equation tool if they were running.

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Format Features

 

  • Character- and paragraph-based style sheets
  • Style Libraries for collections of defined styles independent of particular documents.
  • Language styles allow you to tell Nisus Writer which language any text is in.
  • Headers and footers
  • Footnotes and endnotes
  • Multiple columns
  • Index, cross reference, table of contents
  • Line numbering
  • Display spaces, tabs and paragraph marks
  • Equation editor (based on Design Science's MathType)
  • Table editor
  • Page numbers and counter numbers definable for graphics, equations, tables, etc.
  • Automatic or fixed line spacing
  • Tracking & Leading
  • Command-selecting a named ruler from the Ruler Name popup menu brings up the delete/rename/find dialog.
  • RGB colors are now saved as part of defined styles.
  • When you option-select a named ruler from the popup, you now get a confirmation alert, asking if you're sure you want to delete it, rather than the ruler name dialog.
  • Eliminated wrapping in the ruler name box.
  • When you backspace over a ruler, you now get no warning, and you delete the Return character at the same time as the ruler.
  • Implemented default tab stops beyond the last explicit tab stop, at half-inch intervals.
  • Protective ruler is now not added when pasting if text being pasted is the same ruler style as the insertion point, provided the Return character is included with the text being pasted.

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Graphic Features

 

  • Page layout tools
  • Import PICT and EPS graphics
  • Scale, duplicate, rotate (graphics & text)
  • Text wrap around graphics
  • Watermarks
  • Graphic tools to create and edit graphics
  • Color graphics (256 colors)
  • Grid lines and snap-to-grid
  • Fix graphics to text or page
  • Nudge
  • In front of/behind text placement
  • Filters (Opaque, Transparent, Invert, etc.)

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Multimedia Features

 

  • Insert TIFF, JPEG, GIF, QuickDraw 3D, QuickTime VR graphics (requires OpenDoc & Cyberdog)
  • Place & resize QuickTime movies
  • Record and play sound attached to text & graphics
  • Attach sound to a character, word, sentence, paragraph, document or graphic
  • Auto-highlighting text during playback
  • Text-to-Speech in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish

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Multilingual Features

 

  • No Language Key (dongle) required
  • WorldScript-savvy
  • Enter, find, manipulate text in:
    • Right-to-left languages (Hebrew, Arabic, Farsi)
    • Roman languages
    • Two-byte languages (Chinese, Japanese, Korean)
    • Cyrillic languages
  • Language-specific search tools
  • Spelling dictionaries available for many languages
  • Glossing

     

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Macro Features

 

  • Up to 24 macro files open at once
  • 50+ macros supplied
  • Record, write and edit macros
  • Create custom macro sets
  • "Basic" programming language
  • Conditionals, scoped variables, stacks, arrays, looping constructs
  • Scientific functions

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Convenience Features

 

  • Internet Config support
  • Document statistics including word count, grade level, reading ease, etc.
  • Floating tool bars
  • Remember last files used
  • Remember favorite files
  • PowerBook features
  • Stationery & Avery label templates
  • Keyboard shortcuts decrease selections. Yes, you read that right. Control-shift arrows will now decrease the range of selection.
  • Changed arrow keys: the shift button now expands the selection, and the shift and control keys together now decrease the selection. The following is the summary of the commands:
 
left/right arrow: move cursor one character left/right
...+option: move cursor one word left/right
...+command: move cursor to beginning/end of paragraph
up/down arrow: move cursor one line up/down
...+option: move cursor to beginning/end of document
...+command: move cursor to top/bottom of screen
 
any arrow  
...+shift: extends selection
...+shift & control: shrinks selection
 
Command+Option plus...  
...Up Arrow Moves cursor to the beginning of the current/previous line
...Down Arrow Moves cursor to the beginning of the next line
...Left Arrow Moves cursor to the beginning of the current/previous sentence
...Right Arrow Moves cursor to the beginning of the next sentence
...+shift Extends the selection instead of just moving the cursor
...+shift & control Shrinks the selection instead of just moving the cursor
 
  • Command-close box on background window now closes it (used to be command-option close box); command-option close box on a background window does the intuitive thing and closes all windows.
  • Command or Option plus Page Up will take you to the top of the current page (if in the middle of one) or to the top of the previous page (if at the top of one), and Command or Option plus Page Down will take you to the top of the next page.
  • Enabled Page Up and Page Down in graphics layer and Page Layout windows.
  • New keyboard shortcuts are here! Features include:
  • Simple keystroke assignment of shortcuts.
  • Shortcuts without the command key.
  • Improved dialog box.
  • The ease-of-use and ultra-utility you've grown to love and expect in Nisus Writer.
  • Made the layout page draw more exactly what will be printed, fixing a bug in which the text seemed to overflow the right margin sometimes.

     

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Mac OS 7.5/8 & Mac OS 9 Features

 

  • OpenDoc container support for Live Objects
  • Drag and Drop
  • AppleScript
  • Apple Guide
  • QuickDraw GX printing support
  • Macintosh Easy Open support
  • Publish & Subscribe
  • WorldScript
  • Text-to-Speech
  • Balloon Help
  • Made windows appearance manager aware: windows now take into account the window theme's structure margins when zooming, tiling, etc. if no Nisus New File is present, new windows are created full screen size

     

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Tech Note

This version of Nisus Writer will read files created in older versions and older versions of Nisus Writer will also read files created by this version (except that any new features not supported by the previous versions will obviously not be interpreted correctly). For example one set of such features is cross-referencing and markers in headers, footers and footnotes, which will not be preserved when reading a Nisus Writer 6 file using a previous version.

In this new version, all Return characters do not determine the character attributes (another new feature). Previously they did. Any old file when read by Nisus Writer 6 is therefore converted to this new way of treating Returns. Internally therefore this makes a change in the file, and it may also make the file visibly different. That is why the "File Changed" indicator (the pencil in the Info Bar of the window) often appears, even though you have not manually changed the file.

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