But as the years went by, Nisus became more and more unstable, until I had to give up and move to FrameMaker. Cheers!īack in pre-OSX days I used to use Nisus for virtually all my work. I still find myself unable to use one to the exclusion of the other. Right now it seems to me to come down to this: you have crossed referencing and TOC in Nisus, but you have excellent integration with a superb of bibliographical tool in Mellel. This removes one of my biggest complaints with Nisus, and one of the reasons why I used Mellel for my academic writing. In the new version of Nisus you now have independent styles for the number for the note in the text, the number for the note in the footnote itself, and the footnote text. I often wish to create a document were the number in the note is at the same baseline with the text, though the number in the text of the body of the document is itself superscripted. If you have superscript numbers in your text, you will have a superscripted note number in the footnote itself. You do not have control over the way the number is displayed in the note independently of the way the number is displayed in the text. In the current version of Nisus you have very little control over the way a footnote is displayed. Let me also comment on a post by Ori just below the one that I am replying to right now. Now I can just from the macros in any document that I am editing and insert my comments with the proper attributes. Thus, I would have to copy my attributes styles into a document that was editing from a student in order to put my corrections in to the document. Previously in order to insert text with attributes, I would create the styling needed in the document, and then use the macro to called both the style and then a macro that would insert the text. A big advantage for me, is that now I can insert text with attributes, without having to already have a style for those attributes existing in the document. This language enables you to insert text, with or without attributes, and call items from the menus. In the new version, they have consolidated it down to a single Nisus macro language (though it is backwards compatible with the old Pearl macros). I have used the menu macros to change the characterization and attributes of text that is about to be inserted. I have only used the Pearl macros to create a macro that would insert some text. In the current version you can write macros in in either Pearl, or in native Nisus macro language. This might help us (a) suggest alternatives for your needs (b) propose feature requests for future versions of Mellel. In keeping with the thread, what if any new macro features will NWP have? Hazel & Keyboard Maestro - because I am an automation freakJzents wrote:NW has some features like macros that I find indispensable for grading papers-I use macros to insert canned comments.Ĭould you give us some information or links about NWE's macro system? I googled around and saw reviews that said NWE's macro system was a step backward from the old NW macros, but couldn't find a description of what they are capable of and limited to in NWE today. LaunchBar - forget the Dock and LaunchPad OmniFocus - I need todo lists or I am lost. OmniOutliner - my weekly workhorse app (other than Logos).ĭevonThink Pro Office - throw all of your research in it and find it later. Scrivener - great for writing and compiling academic work in small chunks to compose and repurpose into other long-form formats. Since you seem to be searching for great tools, I thought I might share with you some of the indispensable tools that I have found useful and wish I had in seminary, for what its worth. I use Mellel too, but only when the language requires it. It is so much more agile that Pages and not near as clunky as Word and it plays nice with Bookends. I really wanted something that had a universal file format. It is my primary writing tool and I test drove many before I settled. rtf app to Nisus Writer Pro, save the file, then open in Writer Pro. Nathan, your best bet is to set your default.
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