Nisus Writer Express is an affordable, feature complete word processor.
Features
- Read and write Microsoft Word, RTF, RTFD, Nisus Writer Classic, Unicode, and plain text files.
- Right to Left Text Input
- Bullets and Numbering
- LinkBack Support
- Mix and match writing in over 180 different languages or define your own!
- Easy to use tables
- Flexible styles
- Customizable keyboard shortcuts
- Exclusive Document Manager
- Powerful find and replace
- Footnotes and endnotes
- AppleScript and Perl macros
- Multiple selections
- Language sensitive smart quotes and typo fixing
- Multiple clipboards
Note: Now requires OS X 10.7.5 or later running on a 64-bit Intel processor.
Major Changes
- Added support for Mac OS X document versioning, where a user can browse and revert to older versions of any document.
- Added support for Mac OS X autosave, where changes to all opens documents are saved regularly.
- Added support for iCloud.
- Switched to 64-bit.
- Runs inside the Mac App sandbox.
- Changed: discontinued support for Mac OS X 10.6. The required system is now Mac OS X 10.7.5 or later.
- Changed: Nisus Thesaurus is now integrated directly into Nisus Writer; it is no longer a separate app.
Highlighted Changes
- Added: new options in Saving preferences pane that control where autosave keeps new documents.
- Added: enabled preference that allows user to choose the language of Nisus Writer's GUI (menus and dialogs).
- Added: added menu Edit > Repeat that will repeat the last used menu or palette command. Note that this only works for commands on the main menubar and palettes, not arbitrary actions.
- Added: will now expand entries from the OS X system-wide text replacements as the user types. Added option to disable this in QuickFix preferences.
- Added: added ability to set keyboard shortcuts for intermediate menus (eg: the Paragraph Style menu) which will show that menu and allow the user to make a final choice from the submenus.
- Added: if running on Mac OS X 10.9 or later, the user can now define keyboard shortcuts that use the Space key.
- Added: added menu to set document hyphenation to "Manual", where automatic hyphenation is disabled and only soft-hyphen characters are considered.
- Added: spell: added attribute to prevent spellchecking that can be applied to arbitrary pieces of text or as part of style definitions.
- Fixed: MathMagic equations should paste using PDF image data and a proper image baseline.
Other Changes
- Improved Feedback Reporter.
- When creating a printout or PDF, the status bar should show some progress information
- Added: palettes: if a word is spelled correctly and has no entry in Nisus Thesaurus (eg: perhaps because it is not English), the language palette should display the system dictionary definition for that word, if one is available.
- Added: lang: preferences allow user to customize language icons by pasting/dragging an image.
- Added: added menu File > New Plain Text File that uses the plain text template.
- Added: added menu commands to show the Thesaurus browser (contextual menu and Edit > Spelling > Thesaurus Window).
- Added: added a menu command that shows the system typography panel directly, under Format > Fonts.
- Added: added menus to jump to specific preference panes.
- Added: spelling: the user can customize the color of the dotted underlines that show spelling mistakes.
- Added: user should be able to sort recently opened and saved file lists in the Document Manager by natural ordering (eg: list most recently saved files at the top). This sorting can now be done by sorting by the file icon column.
- Changed: new file templates, glossaries, and macros now prefer to be stored in the Document Manager. This is because the standard OS X file open and save dialogs will not show any folders inside the sandbox.
- Changed: when saving a document, progress is now always immediately shown in the document's status bar (instead of popping up a status panel after a delay). Progress reporting during saving has also been made more accurate.
