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In article <422@skippy.UUCP>, ras@skippy.UUCP (Bob Surtees) writes...
-I have seen a couple of reviews on Paragon's Word Processor Nisus and, as a
-result of playing around with the demo version, am almost at the point of
-purchasing a copy.
- 
-Does anyone out there have any experience with this product for serious
-word processing and had a chance to compare it to some of the other
-*heavies* that are in common use?  I currently use WordPerfect and was

Nisus is an extremely well thought out product, with no where near the 
madness inherent in MS-Word's interface. (I've never used WP...). The
search & replace facilities - based on GREP - are top notch, allowing
s & r combinations just not possible in other packages. And combining
that with the catalog window, allowing you to s & r thru all open files
is incredibly useful. It's easy to learn but definitely a power-users
app, you can really grow into it.

On the downside, it keeps the whole document(s) being edited in RAM,
thereby limiting document size, (esp. one w/a lot of graphics). With
a 1 meg MF partition I started having memory-lo problems with around
20 pages of document. And when you start running low on RAM, watch out!
I got into some bad situations where Nisus would refuse to save my
document due to lo RAM. Not good, I lost several hours of work, even
after trying all the suggestions in the manual. 

It did crash on a lo memory situation and also once when doing a Find
operation, so there are still a few bugs to work out. 

The graphics integration is real nice, they've included basically a
subset of MacDraw. How graphics get anchored to the document is some-
what flaky tho, graphics tend to jump unpredictably from page to page
when they're near a page border.

Biggest strike against Nisus is their well written manual. The problem
is that it comes with about FIFTY replacement pages that you have to
insert, PLUS a HUGE list of erratas that make you have to go thru the
manual page by page crossing out and adding text via ballpoint pen,
PLUS (!!!) a read.me doc that has yet even MORE errata, even a page
of text that you're s'posed to print out and insert in yur manual.
Manual construction took me a good three hours, RIDICULOUS!

Despite the glitches which I hope Paragon will iron out, I'll stick with
Nisus over Word any day.

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