On 1/16/03, Nigel Perry wrote: [ ... ]
>As someone who edits a newsletter one of the biggest banes of the job is ad-hoc >formatted documents. Of course I just read them into NisusWriter, bash 'em with a few >macros (remove ad-hoc formatting, extra spaces, Windows formatted characters, smarten >quotes, em-dash dashes, etc., etc. - NW is the best [only] tool for the job), and >apply styles for the newsletter style sheet - voila, readable articles! As an editor, I second this. Also, it can move periods and commas inside quotes (per American rules), etc. This is why Nisus is the greatest EDITOR'S tool ever invented. GREP+Macros deal with all those problems and let you start dealing with the actual grammar and *proper* formatting. In that regard, even its lack of a Quark export tool is a plus. My export styles macro exports what should be exported -- style sheets, bold and italic, but NOT underlines, etc. But this shows the Great Nisus Problem. Nisus *as it stands* is great for editors. But that's only one market. There are also the people who want multilingual tools, or the ones who hate Microsoft and so want Word without it being from Microsoft, etc. We all want different things. Nisus can't satisfy us all. I wish we knew which market is truly dominant. :-( -- Bob Waltz [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The one thing we learn from history -- is that no one ever learns from history." --------------------------------------------------- The Nisus Interactive List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Searchable archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/nisus-interactive%40nisus.com/ To unsubscribe from this list please send a message with "unsubscribe nisus-interactive" in the body of the email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
