After 25 years, Nisus Software is still in the game, and has just announced Nisus Writer Pro 2.1, an important update to their word processor for Mac OS X. Now 64 bit and sandboxed, version 2.1 includes iCloud support, autosave, versions, bug fixes, improvements, and macro language enhancements.
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Contents.History First introduced in 1989, the Nisus Writer was the first word processor for Macintosh able to handle multiple type systems within one document, e.g., etc., thanks to. Therefore, Nisus Writer was an indispensable tool for people who had to integrate passages written in non-Roman script into a regular document, for instance theologians and archaeologists. Other distinguishing features of the program were non-contiguous text selection, multiple editable clipboards, one of the earliest implementations of multiple, voice recording, and inline annotations. It also offers search and replace accessed through a graphical instead of. These features, which were more advanced than those typically found in word processors of the day, were also present in Nisus'.An unusual feature of the Nisus was that all font and formatting information was saved in the file's, with the containing only. Thus, if the file were to be opened in another program on the Mac, or on a, the text would be readable (although style information would be lost).
This predates file formats as used by word processors like. Contemporary editions of Word had different formats between the Mac and Windows versions and required a translator if the file were to be readable at all. Using the resource fork to store style information was later implemented by for the standard Macintosh styled text format as used in.Nisus Writer 6.5 is the last classic version of Nisus. It is still available for purchase and runs under and -based, but only in the environment.Rather than porting Nisus Writer to Mac OS X Nisus released a fundamentally new product called Nisus Writer Express.
It is based on and complies with Apple's Mac OS X user interface guidelines. It was originally developed as Okito Composer by Charles Jolley (now of Sprout Systems).
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Nisus bought Okito Composer and hired Charles as Managing Director in which capacity he oversaw further development of the word processor he had created. Jolley later left Nisus to work for Apple. Nisus Compact was an extra-lean variant marketed for Apple's 68K. It was designed to fit entirely within RAM to avoid accessing the hard disk and thereby draining the laptop's battery. It was at first a commercial product but was later given away as a with various books and magazines as part of a marketing campaign.
'Upgrades' to Nisus Writer were offered at a discount.Current product range As of November 2017, Nisus sells two versions of its word processor: Nisus Writer Express and Nisus Writer Pro. Both versions come with more than adequate functionality for most users, although Pro leans more towards business documents, and is designed as a replacement for the likes of Microsoft Word for Macintosh. The Pro version supports more file formats. See also. equation editor for Nisus Writer, supporting automatic baseline alignmentReferences.
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