I'd have liked outlining and hypertext and table of contents and more. I would have loved lots of other wordprocessor features, things I remember from the Golden Age. It had to be able to open most Word documents so they can at least be read, and it should be able to save as a Word file tolerably well.ġ0. I'm not sure NWE really qualifies but I'll find out.ĩ. That ruled out OpenOffice, AbiWord and a few others. That ruled out OpenOffice, AbiWord, etc.Ĩ. I really wanted a Cocoa app that would play well with OS X and support services. That rules out TextEdit and a number of other OS X apps bitten by the SMB save bugs.ħ. It had to be able to save to an SMB share. That ruled out Word and Pages and OpenOffice and various GUI front ends on TeX engines.Ħ. It had to be something my wife would be very comfortable using. I hate Word, despite being a certified Word guru. I thought TE might do, but I eventually realized it's a toy.ģ. It had to be a reasonably decent wordprocessor. That also rules out Pages and AppleWorks.Ģ. I don't care if it's the second coming of WordPerfect, it has a stupid proprietary file format. That ruled out Mellel and, sadly, AbiWord. I cannot abide yet another file format that will strand my data. Practically that means RTF, RTFD or OpenOffice. If you’re looking for a writer’s word processor from a responsive company, definitely take a look at Nisus Writer Express.So why did I opt for NWE? And, more than any of the alternatives-Mellel, Mariner Write, Microsoft Word itself-it has a high quality of “Mac-ness.” Express just feels right in a way that no Mac word processor has to me since the venerable WriteNow. But it shows a high attention to detail in what really matters: the act of writing. Nisus Writer Express isn’t-yet-the power user’s word processor its namesake was. Here's how a review of a much earlier version concluded: ATPM 10.11 - Review: Nisus Writer Express 2.0:
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