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In article <foo.bar> rcarr@zeus.calpoly.edu (Robin) writes:
>I was told about a Word Processing program named Nisus.  Since I am looking
>into purchasing a new Word Processor, I want to know what any of you
>Nisus users (or ex-users) think of it.  Is it similar to any other more
>"famous" Word Processors?  What are advantages and disadvantages?  Anything
>especially unique about it?, etc.

Well, I bought Nisus before MS Word 5 came out. I was sick of the inability
of Word 4 to do search/replace on fonts/sizes/styles, and Nisus provided
that capability (along with a host of others, most notably unlimited undo,
a nicety for those of us used to that feature in, say, GNU Emacs).

So I used it, and it was ok. Slow, but quite powerful. But I never came to
like the user interface; found it clumsy in the extreme.

Then MS Word 5 came out, and I got it, and I haven't used Nisus since. I
know there's a lot of MS Word bashing out there, and a lot of it is
deserved, but it does everything I need well, (somewhat) intuitively, and
(fairly) quickly. I consider the $250 I spent on Nisus wasted money...

Just my opinion. It certainly is a good word processor; it's just not
really up to par, IMHO.

--Erik

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