This from Allen Watson - dated 6/11/04 6�01 am: > I'm curious. What did you migrate to?
Ulysses and Nisus Writer Express. I did most of my word processing with Nisus Writer pre OS X, and felt that with the improvements in version 2, it was worth the, er, side-grade fee. I use it mainly for correspondence and short documents. The only real downer is that I'm having to get to grips with bloody Perl to create some useful macros - apart from that it feels like coming home. Ulysses is a project management tool for writers, and I love it. I'm up to my armpits in a project that currently runs to around 85,000 words, in 23 sections, each with attendant notes, jottings and research � Ulysses keeps all of these within easy reach. I became aware of this app (from German developers 'Blue Tech') when it received a glowing review in the UK's fortnightly MacUser mag back in Februaryish. My project was then about a third of the size, yet keeping it all accessible with MS Word as my main writing tool was already becoming awkward. It won't be everybody's cup of tea because the main writing area is resolutely, puritanically, single-mindedly plain text. Any formatting options (even as basic as bold or italic) are achieved by marking up the text and exporting it. This may sound restrictive, but the developer's intention is actually that it should be liberating, allowing the writer to focus entirely on the textual content, without all those distracting options offered by more fully featured word processors. Took me about a month of tooth-grinding to come to terms with the Ulysses way, but now I wouldn't have it any *other* way. Nick pp Mr Tea -- -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
