well, it sounds great in the review, but how does it work with VO? What
percentage of these great features are actually useable by a VoiceOver user?
I'd like to find a good useable word processor for the MAC, but I want
something with more than just klunky and clumsy, "sometimes" accessibility.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Esther" <[email protected]>
To: "Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2013 2:45 AM
Subject: Nisus Writer Pro on sale today for $39 as MacUpdate Promo [was
Re:Questions regarding Nisus Writer Pro]
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
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