{"id":5192,"date":"2012-06-27T15:26:59","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T19:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=5192"},"modified":"2025-10-25T11:22:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T15:22:20","slug":"nisus-writer-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/27\/nisus-writer-pro\/","title":{"rendered":"Nisus Writer Pro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/1167342\/nisus_writer_pro_2_0_2_full_of_power_features.html\">William Porter<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/1167342\/nisus_writer_pro_2_0_2_full_of_power_features.html\"><p>As I worked on this review and reacquainted myself with <a href=\"http:\/\/nisus.com\/pro\/\">Nisus Writer Pro<\/a>, again and again I wrote a note about something I thought Nisus Writer Pro couldn&rsquo;t do, and again and again I discovered that I was wrong. Here&rsquo;s the executive summary: Nisus Writer Pro is a word processing power tool. This power does require a bit of effort to master, but compared to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/1154252\/word2011.html\">Microsoft Word<\/a>, Nisus Writer Pro is remarkably user friendly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If I used a word processor these days, it would probably be Nisus Writer Pro. I probably even have the floppy disk from one of the original versions somewhere. But over the years my workflow has inverted. Instead of writing in a word processing app that supports scripting, I now write <a href=\"http:\/\/docutils.sourceforge.net\/rst.html\">markup<\/a> in BBEdit and write code to process it. This seems like far from an ideal solution, but in practice it works. I&rsquo;m still waiting for a product that handles writing, editing, and layout; flexible PDF, Apple Help, Web, and e-book output; includes; version control, change tracking, and text comparison. Nisus Writer Pro and, to a lesser extent, Pages seem to be approaching this holy grail but aren&rsquo;t there yet.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Porter: As I worked on this review and reacquainted myself with Nisus Writer Pro, again and again I wrote a note about something I thought Nisus Writer Pro couldn&rsquo;t do, and again and again I discovered that I was wrong. Here&rsquo;s the executive summary: Nisus Writer Pro is a word processing power tool. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2025-10-25T15:22:22Z","apple_news_api_id":"a5651792-61c4-4a94-ab1f-23178041d9c5","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-10-25T15:22:22Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ApWUXkmHESpSrHyMXgEHZxQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[891],"class_list":["post-5192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-nisus-writer-pro"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5192"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49784,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5192\/revisions\/49784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}