PowerFind builds regular expressions from a pop-up palette, giving you all the power without the fiddly Unix syntax. The Find/Replace functions in NWX are among the most powerful you’ll find in a word processor. You can set two background colors, which will be used in patterns, gradients, and blends. The button on the toolbar lets you specify table size and mark the top row as the header with two clicks the table palettes allow other aspects-from borders to text formatting-to be modified quickly and efficiently. While tags aren’t even mentioned in NWX’s feature list, they may be one of the program’s most powerful features. A color-filled circle will appear to let you select all the document text that’s the same color as the current selection if it’s different than the document default an underlined “a” selects character formatting such as underline and italics a ruler (which longtime Nisus Writer users will recognize) selects for tabs and margins. Most of the other tags appear as needed to provide context-sensitive selection capability.
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In the bottom right of the window in the status bar you’ll see a series of small icons, which NWX calls “tags.” Some tags are always present-the magnifying glass and percentage show the zoom level, the flag shows the current language, and the clipboard allows access to NWX’s multiple clipboards, including the ability to edit them in separate full editor windows. It offers a relatively limited set of icons beyond the default set shown.
NWX also has a standard Cocoa toolbar (shown above in the small icon, no text view). In addition to collapsing palettes as shown, the palettes can be rearranged within a group, put into new groups, and even dragged out of the drawer completely. In this screen shot, the group is named Writing. NWX’s most distinctive user interface feature is the tool drawer, which contains different sets of palettes that can be grouped together. This helps make NWX competitive with other alternative word processors-but it’s the unique features that set it apart from the competition. In September 2004, Nisus introduced Express 2.0, adding some of the most-requested features including styles, tables, and footnotes. The original release of NWX was promising, but it lacked in both features and performance and met with lukewarm response from new users and disappointment from old Nisus fans. Nisus bought Composer, hired Jolley, added some of Nisus Writer’s unique features, and released Nisus Writer Express 1.0 in 2003. Concurrently, independent developer Charles Jolley was working on a word processor called Okito Composer that, while aimed at the low-end market, took full advantage of OS X technologies. With the advent of OS X, Nisus faced a choice of Carbonizing Nisus Writer or starting over with a Cocoa-based application. Price: $70 (boxed) $60 (download) $45 (upgrade)įrom its first release in 1989, Nisus Writer gained a following as a power user’s word processor in the pre-OS X world for its sophisticated macro capability, regular expression-based PowerFind, non-contiguous text selection, and other features that, 15 years later, are still rare.
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