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Nisus Writer Express

Lean, fast word processor.

Nisus Writer ExpressOverview

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

NEW

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.

Nisus Writer ExpressInformation

Version
3.5
Date
09.18.15
License
Trial
Language
English
File Size
67.7 MB
Category
SubCategory
Operating Systems
Mac OS X
System Requirements
  • OS X 10.7.5 or later
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