A very good price, wish I'd been able to Buy Nisus Writer Pro for that <smile>.
On 25/06/2013, at 4:45 PM, Esther <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > Nisus Writer Pro is on sale today (for the next 21 hours and 15 minutes) for > $39.00 -- a 51% reduction from the usual price of $79.00 -- as today's > macupdate promo: > https://deals.macupdate.com/ > > Macupdate promos are featured daily (or occasionally, weekend or 1 week) > discounted offers of Mac apps that are purchased within the promo period from > the mupromo web site (not the Mac App Store). Promos may be for apps that > are offered in the Mac App Store, or for apps that do not appear in the Mac > App Store because they offer features that exceed the sandboxing requirements > of the Mac App Store. Sometimes promos are offered as a lesser discounted > rate for a few days beyond the original promo period. Purchasing a Macupdate > promo requires creating an account that involves a one-time negotiation of a > CAPTCHA. Thereafter, you can access receipt information for your purchases, > licenses, and download links through your account login. > > This is one of the best prices for Nisus Writer Pro that I've seen outside of > the one time this software appeared as part of a software bundle the year > this version was released (2011). I particularly like using Nisus Writer Pro > for creating of ePub versions of documents. Although Pages can create ePub > output, Nisus Writer Pro has more features, such as the easy creation of > table of contents from headings (which requires the Nisus Writer Pro version, > as opposed to the Express version). Although I also use Pages, I find Nisus > Writer Pro a bit more intuitive to use, and I also like the PowerFind > features that additionally let you use regular expressions to search for > matches. The Nisus Writer Express version does not have support for features > such as Table of Contents, Indexing, Cross References, Bookmarks, Track > Changes, Comments, Watermarks, Export to ePub, and Export to .docx (though it > can import .docx format Office documents). > > You can check out the 15-day free trial download at: > http://www.nisus.com/pro/ > > You can also read some of the previous archived discussion posts on this > list, such as: > • Nisus Writer Pro 2.0 Versus Pages; [Revisited]: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00117.html > > There was also an extensive and detailed TidBITS review on Nisus Writer Pro > when version 2 was released earlier this year: > http://tidbits.com/article/12220 > (Read this in Safari Reader with Command-Shift-R) > > HTH. Cheers, > > Esther > > > On Jun 22, 2013, at 3:03 PM, Anne Robertson wrote: > >> Hello Christian, >> >> You can do everything you mentioned in Pages. You can calculate the position >> of any item on the page using the Metrics inspector, and you can create and >> manipulate tables. You just have to set Floating in the Wrap inspector while >> you work on the table, then set it back to Inline when you're done. >> >> Of course, you need to know the size of the paper you're working with and be >> able to do simple maths. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Anne >> >> >> On 22 Jun 2013, at 20:47, Christian Schoepplein <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> after trying arround for a few days to format a document (Vitae Cursus) >>> with Latex I have to say, that a simple text processing programm for the >>> Mac would be really nice :-). I used Latex some times in the past to write >>> normal texts and letters and that worked fine, but for a document which is >>> structured with many tables and contains a picture, my knowletge of Latex >>> isn't enough. Also the output has to be reviewed by a sighted person, >>> because many things can went wrong and formating is broken :-(. >>> >>> Now I wonder, if there is a textprocessing software for the Mac out there >>> which can be used without big barrieres with VoiceOver? I've heard that >>> Nisus Writer Pro is good to use, but how about tables for examble? Tables >>> are not accessible in apples writer, is this better with the Nisus Writer? >>> Can I controll the format of a document or do I also have to ask a sighted >>> person after I've finished work if the look of the document is OK? >>> >>> I do not need to create complicated documents, no need for foodnotes and >>> such things, but headlines, lists and tables should work. >>> >>> Thanks for any hint and all the best from Munich, >>> >>> Christian >>> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> >>> >>> To reply to this post, please address your message to >>> [email protected] >>> >>> You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum >>> at either the list's own dedicated web archive: >>> <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> >>> or at the public Mail Archive: >>> <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. >>> Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: >>> <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> >>> >>> As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure >>> that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and >>> worm-free. 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