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But, Martin, will it remain possible in the feature to buy (an upgrade of) Nisus in the traditional way, or will Nisus become an 'App Store only' application? And as far as Nisus' immediate future is concerned: can you at least confirm that a new beta version of Nisus is presently being tested by a ...

For critical editions in the languages you mention you might take a look at Classical Text Editor. Unfortunately it's a Windows application, but of course you can run it on an Intel Mac too, in combination with Parallels Desktop or another similar program.

No, JPRuss is right. Nisus' development is slow, very slow, and the developers could at least tell us in which direction they are moving, and what we can or could expect in the coming times. And JPRuss is right in another respect too. The most recent version of Word for the Mac is nice, and I wouldn...

About this issue, some time ago I sent a personal message to the Nisus developing team. The answer was not very encouraging: "It's on our list". At this stage, the major problem seems to be not how to solve this problem. This is a merely technical issue, for which somehow some solution sho...

I second this request.

This is exactly my problem. I too have lengthy documents with tons of footnotes, which in NWP simply become too slow to work with. So for the moment I'm using Mellel, which doesn't have this problem. But I sincerely do hope that in the next version of NWP (1.5, or whatever number it will bear) this ...

Today I received the latest Nisus Newsletter. But what's the sense of it? I like receiving newsletters, provided they contain news about updates or other useful things. But Nisus' Newsletters are often sheer publicity. Please, Martin and others, when you send us a Newsletter, tell us something inter...

@cterrs: your wish is mine. It would be perfect to have a Mac-application for making critical editions, but it doesn't exist, and I'm afraid it will never exist. The only application I know which does exactly what you want (and much, much more), is Classical Text Editor , "for Windows and Macin...

@ Groucho: that's what I already feared. Which means that, unless Nisus' developers find the time to write a text engine of their own, which should be a rather laborious task, Nisus will never be the best possibie choice for writing long and complex documents. For like you, I'm very pessimistic abou...

I don't have any suggestions, but I have exactly the same experience. I have a document of 870.000 words. Yes, that's a very long document. But it consists of just plain text; no notes, no tables, no graphics, no sections. Utterly impossible to work with. The only thing I see is the pizza-wheel. Ano...

Thanks for your thorough explanation, Paolo! I sincerely do hope the next version of Indesign will offer the improvements you most need!

I hope I don't seem too curious, but … why is Framemaker so absolutely essential for you? Why not switch to Indesign, for instance?

ptram wrote:[The tools I'm forced to use on the Mac only run in Classic, therefore on Tiger. And when it is time to upgrade, I'll have to leave the Mac entirely.

Paolo

That sounds rather dramatic! But which tools are you talking about, Paolo?

I fully agree with rwg. In Nisus, the color of almost anything can be customized, except the color of the most basic thing of all: the page on which one writes. One of the things which keeps me from adopting Nisus as my wordprocessor of choice, is this strange omission. Strange, because almost anyth...

Pages undoubtedly has its strong sides, but it also has very weak sides. Weak, for instance, is Pages' handling of rtf, which leaves much to be desired. And Nisus has a whole range of features which Pages doesn't have, and in part probably will never have: cross-references, indexing and so on. And t...