It is nice to see that Nisus Writer X is likely to see the light of day soon. We will then be able to judge just how friendly the new interface really is. <http://www.nisus.com/products/NisusWriter/SneakPeek/>
Tools drawer Personally, I am not too keen on the idea of a Tools drawer and would prefer to set paragraph and character style settings from menus or dialogues. However, a drawer that is attached to the side of document windows should be an improvement on the Settings palette of M$ Word or Apple's Font palette, both of which tend to obscure parts of the active document. As long as we have an alternative method of entering these types of settings, I will be happy. Rulers People here have commented on the problems with ruler settings and the havoc this can cause when applying styles. This was more a problem of implementation, rather than with the concept itself. When creating a new paragraph style, in Word, FrameMaker or Nisus, I often want to use the tab and margin settings from another style, but no other elements from that style. In principle, the Rulers function is the best way to achieve this. It was just that the implementation in Classic Nisus was not very intuitive, and could produce unpredictable results. Format It will be interesting to see how Nisus promotes Nisus X's RTF support. Since it looks like the first version of Nisus X will not support tables, it will not be fully RTF compliant. As long as basic character and paragraph formatting is retained when exchanging RTF documents with Windows, or other, users, it will be an improvement on the Classic version. Let's hope that table support, and Word compatibility, are not too far behind. My two yen's worth. Mark. -- Ancient Ashiya and beyond... (Major update January 16) <http://www2.odn.ne.jp/~hab26240/japan/ancient.html> --------------------------------------------------- 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]
