cs163ahh@sdcc18.ucsd.EDU (Mark Remann) (02/02/88)
I don't want to be blasphemous to a net that seems to have open its arms to FullWrite, but I did see a word processor at MacWorld that seems to have many of the same features that FullWrite has. Its a product by Paragon concepts, the same people who did the text editor qued & qued/m. It seemed to have a nicer interface for drawing graphics in text and a bit faster than the FullWrite demo. Too bad they weren't giving out demo copies for us users to play around with. I'm not sure what the release date on Nisus is scheduled to be yet, but I'm just wondering if anybody else might have gotten a better look at it and how they compared it to FullWrite. Mark Remann
cs178aas@sdcc8.ucsd.EDU (Grobbins) (02/03/88)
Several of us working on Nisus read comp.sys.mac, and will be happy (anxious, actually) to answer questions about the product. Grobbins grobbins@sdemlab.ucsd.edu Paragon Concepts, Inc.
robertj@yale-zoo-suned..arpa (Rob Jellinghaus) (02/03/88)
In article <779@sdcc8.ucsd.EDU> grobbins@sdemlab.ucsd.edu (Grobbins) writes: >Several of us working on Nisus read comp.sys.mac, and will be happy >(anxious, actually) to answer questions about the product. > >Grobbins grobbins@sdemlab.ucsd.edu >Paragon Concepts, Inc. Questions! Questions! :-) Seriously, what kind of stuff has Nisus got that all of us in Net-land ought to know about? Is there a (SHORT, maybe 2 pages at the MOST) product summary you can upload? (Is this illegal/not good? Or is it OK since I am specifically requesting it? FullWrite has certain- ly had its share of favorable net-propaganda...) Rob Jellinghaus | "Dick... you're FIRED!" jellinghaus@yale.edu.UUCP | "Thank you!" ROBERTJ@{yalecs,yalevm}.BITNET | *BADDA BADDA BAP!* *Crash!* "AAIEEE!!" !..!ihnp4!hsi!yale!jellinghaus | -- _Robocop_
jkwan@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Joe C. Kwan) (02/03/88)
Exactly what IS Nisus??? Please give brief description.
akk2@ur-tut.UUCP (Atul Kacker) (02/04/88)
In article <779@sdcc8.ucsd.EDU> grobbins@sdemlab.ucsd.edu (Grobbins) writes: >Several of us working on Nisus read comp.sys.mac, and will be happy >(anxious, actually) to answer questions about the product. > >Grobbins grobbins@sdemlab.ucsd.edu >Paragon Concepts, Inc. Well, the main question I have is with regards to scientific equations capability of Nisus. It is a question that has been asked of FullWrite, with the answer being that it is not built in and to use a program like MathType or Expressionist. However, that is not a reasonable way for anyone doing technical paper writing with a *lot* of equations. (Try changing a delta to a gamma in a document which has over a 100 equations, and you'll soon realize how foolhardy the cut and paste approach is) How does Nisus handle equations ? Both in-line and in display mode. Hyphenation ? Kerning ? As for now, I will stick with TeX, which is fairly easy to use (You have to be computer literate, of course) and gives by far the best results. MS Word comes in a distant second... -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Atul Kacker | Internet: akk2@tut.cc.rochester.edu | UUCP: {ames,cmcl2,decvax,rutgers}!rochester!ur-tut!akk2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------