On 12 Feb 2014, at 23:37, Ranulph Glanville wrote:
No, no Nisus for iOS. But that's not really the point, which is that if you save your file to dropbox, it will open to and from there.
Slight tangents but possibly of interest: fond memories of Nisus in the 90s on OS 8 and 9. A genius programmer (name of Kino) and me knocked up macros that converted formatted text to plain-text markup (we basically invented Markdown but omitted to tell anyone else). I used to write stuff on the move or in the library on my Palm V and then convert it back...
The modern version is of course Markdown (well, actually Multimarkdown, what with the footnotes and so on). It has a lot of advantages (small file footprint, plain-text is usually retrievable if it's corrupted). The only thing you won't get is Track Changes, frankly, but BBEdit can compare documents very efficiently. Then you can make it RTF (or TeX, or Word or html) via Multimarkdown Composer on the Mac.
There is a beautiful but absurd LaTeX package for marking things up like Track Changes but it's largely cosmetic (and an awful lot of work!)
It matters using mobile devices because corruption is SO much easier in these proprietary formats (no 1 cause of corruption of Word documents is track changes). But if you really want to use formatted files (not Pages), then UX Write is pretty good (and if you copy stuff on iOS, it stores as markdown -- handy for moving between apps;))
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