A very nice feature, which is almost inexistent in the present generation of wordprocessors, is horizontal grouping of footnotes. Moreover, many features which as such are interesting and handy, are not finished off so neatly as one might desire. When the document gets longer, NWPro (like NWE) gets slower and slower and with very long documents with a host of footnotes, it becomes completely unusable. To this unfortunately it must be added that NWPro definitely is not a good choice for those who use to work with long documents. So, although I like the program very much because of its beauty and its radiance of reliability (and the full screen view is great as well), it will not be very long with me, I’m afraid. In NisusWriter Pro, you have to insert an enforced page break before the chapter heading, after the last line of the text before, which is very unhandy and error-prone. This is a very common function in a lot of other textprocessors (WORD, NeoOffice at least), often named “begin this paragraph on a new page” (or in a new column) or the like and of course very useful for chapter headings. (2) It seems not to be possible to define a paragraph style that enforces a page-break before. NWP is practically unusable for this purpose, and this is a severe drawback in a world where the MS-DOC-format is, unfortunately, a standard you are very often confronted with. (1) Try to import a Word-document: Even TextEdit does it better. It misses some serious things, at least from my point of view. Plus an incredible detailled manual as PDF, more than 400 well-written pages. Beyond that it offers a wealth of functions you never even dreamed of. It looks beautiful, and the first impression is indeed: If there is anything one can do with text, this program is capable to do it. I downloaded the hefty 103 MB (!) demo version yesterday and started my test-drive.
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