TES Nisus Writer 6.5  

• Nisus Writer 68K version is now released.
• Navigation Services is now a preference you can turn on (in the Startup preferences).
• The TidBITS AutoCorrect glossary, created by Adam Engst consisting of over 2700 words is now shipped in the Glossaries folder of the Nisus Writer Tools folder.
• A selection of Nisus New Files is now available in the Stationery folder of the Nisus Writer Tools folder (none of them require the English (UK) dictionary.
• The HTML documentation has been compressed and optimized.
• A new Nisus Table Tool released which updates the functioning of some menus.

Nisus Writer 6.0 Features

• Zoom feature opens a floating window which shows an enlarged (or reduced) version of the text at and near the insertion point.
• Added an automatic Glossary Expansion feature. When turned on, any abbreviation you have defined will be expanded automatically as you type. The setting is saved in the preferences file.
• Added a new feature called the Nisus Text Analyzer Tool. It analyzes the text of the current document and produces phrase lists according to relevance indexes. These can be a useful starting point for indexing. Can also be used for very quickly producing a word list of your document. Also lists number of words, number of unique words, and the frequency of each word and phrase.
• Support for Navigation Services was added, including Open dialog preview of text documents, Nisus Writer Glossary documents and Macro documents.
• Support for contextual menus was added.
• A new Grammar Checker is included.
• IBM's dictation software "ViaVoice" is supported.
• Importing of graphics files using QuickTime has been added.
• A new XTND RTF Filter from Mercury Software has been added.
• Feature added to allow you to copy the displayed data in the Word Count dialog.
• A special file save called Nisus¨TextPlus was added to the list in the Save dialog. It saves the document as a text file with all the notes (endnotes or footnotes) converted to text.
• Nisus Table tool now remembers font setting of each empty cell.
• Platinum menu background. (This is not yet support for Appearance Manager.)
• Options added to the spelling dialog to allow you to turn off capitalization and repeat words checking.
• Checkbox in Find/Replace window for turning on/off search through headers/footers and footnotes.
• Catalog Icon display has been added for users of MacOS 8.5-9.0.4
• Save Settings button, in the Print dialog, saves our custom Print setting panel items (e.g. page numbers as numbered in document).
• Feature to make Find/Replace more friendly. If the Find/Replace checkbox "In Selection" is on, but there is no selection and the user initiates a search/replace operation, the checkbox is automatically turned off and the operation carried out on the active document. Previously forgetting that it was on would cause "Expression Not Found" messages and frustration.