Do you know that a from-the-ground-up product is in the works? NWE is a whole different not-from-the-ground-up project -- built from an existing, formerly shareware product.
I think part of the problem is the NW Classic was so good, and addressed so many different users' not necessarily overlapping needs, that I doubt it will ever be recreated (in functionality) from scratch. So just to get my priorities listed in the mix, they are: * a rich-text-capable, multi-paragraph variety of PowerFind Pro, with both stingy (stop at the first instance) and greedy (grab everything to the last instance) variants of wildcards that can handle formatted and colored text in a manner equally as functional as NW Classic * the ability to easily macroize those search routines into macros. * a continuation of the ability to select noncontiguous text * a translation or import tool to deal with existing NW Classic macros Speaking only for myself, and not to minimize the importance of the following features for some others, I am less concerned with complex word processor formatting and the range of language support the NW Classic has, but that is because of how I use the program -- primarily a tool for massaging formatted or unformatted text into coded text for input into other programs. My understanding was that Intel Macs would not be able to run the Classic environment from the get-go (due to architecture differences), not four years down the road. As long as that's only affecting the low end, it may not be a problem, but I'm not sure we know how it's all going to pan out. Rick Gordon ------------------ On 7/23/05 at 10:04 AM +1000, John Brownie wrote in a message entitled "Re: [Nisus-interactive] Is Nisus Classic Dead?": >Don't expect a new version of NW - if there was ever to be an OS X version, we >would have seen it long ago. Rather, they are rewriting from the ground up, >and NWE is the current increment. It doesn't meet all my needs yet, either, so >I'm still using NW under Classic. > >However, you don't need to think about "ancient Macs". If you buy a new Mac >before they phase out Power PC Macs, you'll still be able to run Classic. That >should keep you going at least for four years, by which time the software >landscape will no doubt have changed again quite dramatically! -- ___________________________________________________ RICK GORDON EMERALD VALLEY GRAPHICS AND CONSULTING ___________________________________________________ WWW: http://www.shelterpub.com _______________________________________________ Nisus-interactive-nisus.com mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nisus.com/listinfo.cgi/nisus-interactive-nisus.com
