On Sunday, Dec 8, 2002, at 06:08 Asia/Tokyo, rpshields wrote:
Thank you for having brought this to our attention. Very interesting indeed, especially Jerzy's following words...<http://www.macedition.com/interviews/int_nisus_20021204.php>
What he means by "text-only features" is not so clear. So this would be a good occasion to download QUED/M 3.0.3 demo together with the manual in pdf and play with it for a while.We will also include support for those that work with a lot of text, not necessarily formatted. These text-only features will upgrade our other product -- QUED/M -- a text editor, the predecessor of Nisus Writer and one that developed the core engine of Nisus Writer.
<http://www.nisus.com/Products/QUEDM/>
Though it's a text editor for programming languages with no graphics, no footnote, no table, etc., QUED/M has the look and feel with which we are familiar. Catalog, Find/Replace, Macro, multiple clipboards, etc. Looks like a younger brother of NW 4.1.6. But it has some nice features which are not found in NW4.1.6-6.5 and that I'd like to have in NW X:
- A file's full path is displayed in the top edge of Document window;
- Syntax coloring -- that for macros in very primitive in QUED/M though;
- Pull down menus for inputting macro commands in Macro edit window, similar to those in NW's Find/Replace dialog box;
- View as ASCII codes for non-low-ascii characters in Document/Macro windows;
and DIFF which is "unlike Compare" we have in NW. According to QUED/M 3.0 Manual, p. 65...
Two File Differences
Unlike Compare which finds the next difference between two
files, Two File Differences allows you to find all the
differences between two files using a single command. Two
File Differences offers you a number of different
alternatives when you compare two files. By checking the
appropriate options QUED/M ignores multiple spaces or tabs,
blank lines, case differences and lines containing special
text strings. In addition you can specify the format in
which QUED/M displays these differences. QUED/M can show
change bars in each document, create a composite window
combining these changes, create a UNIX Diff file or create
various UNIX scripts.
This feature would be useful for those who write a long document, wouldn't it? Should be very useful with some modification. DIFF works per paragraph. It is designed to treat a source code file where paragraphs -- logical lines -- are rather short. The result shown by DIFF is not so helpful for a document where most paragraphs are composed of several apparent lines. So it would be necessary to implement into it an option for comparison per word/character.
I do request they will be released as a combined and single product. These features will be nice not only for programmers but also for anyone who write. I don't say "for anyone who write a *long* document" because now I realised: DIFF should work great when you want to compare two versions of a short poem, for example.We may release these as two separate products and perhaps also as a combined product."
And if they will be released as two separate products? Admittedly we'll be able to purchase both Nisus X and QUED/X if they will be rather cheap. But, in that case, we will not be able to use them conveniently unless the file format is exactly the same. I.e. unless all style/formatting capacities -- including header, footnote, column, table, etc. if available -- are supported in both of them. And I think this to be unlikely. This is why I request the combined product. Of course, perhaps releasing Pro version and Lite version would not be a bad idea though.
Kino
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