Thanks! I am also a writer, and have written one set of three volumes that ran to about 1000 pages. I did it mostly in Word 5.1, a number of years ago. Ulysses sounds interesting enough that I should try it out.
At one point, I switched from Word to Nisus Writer pre-OS X, like you. Loved the quirky macro language. Move to OS X ended that love affair, and AppleScript started to replace _some_ of the things I used to do in Nisus--Mostly using Tex-Edit plus or BBEdit to do the more complex manipulation. I've purchased Nisus Writer Express, but barely used it. Like you, I dread having to learn Perl, although I'm sure I will love it once I find the time to do so. Have you played at all with AppleScripting it? Is the dictionary fairly robust? On 11/6/04 7:41 AM, "Mr Tea" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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/>
