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pgiltner@epas.utoronto.ca (Philip W. Giltner Jr.) writes:
>ds8k+@andrew.cmu.edu (Donpaul C. Stephens) writes:
>>
>>Could a Nisus owner please pull a comparison for us between Nisus and Word?
>
>I just made the switch, and I'm pretty happy with it.

I got the demo (I forget what version) about two years ago, and dropped
it immediately, because of at least one major bug:

I copied a graph from Igor into the document.  The graph had about 1000
objects (circles) in it.  So far, fine.  Then I wanted to center it or
something, so I thought I'd try double-clicking it first, to see if that
brought up some convenient controls.  Big mistake.  Watch cursor appeared,
going round and round.  After more than 3 minutes of waiting (on a IIci
with cache card), I tried to stop it.  Command-dot didn't work.  This was
before System 7, so command-shift-escape wasn't an option.  I finally
rebooted after about 4 minutes of it doing god-knows-what.  

I sent email to them, and got no response.  Maybe this has been fixed now,
but if not I absolutely will not use the program.  Besides, I like 
hierarchical styles.

Not that MS Word is great.  Why can't they put in auto-numbering of 
arbitrary stuff?????  Dweebs!

I have another question about MSWD, but that belongs in another article.
Stay tuned.
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Kevin		boyce@amo.mit.edu
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