On 9/8/05, Martin Edelson wrote:

>In fairness we need to remember that NWE is not intended as a replacement for 
>Nisus Writer. It is a small application (getting larger!) designed for simple 
>tasks. Let's not ask too much of it.

This is no answer. If NisusWriter the Real Thing existed, it would
be an answer, but NisusWriter the Real Thing *doesn't exist*, and
now there is reason to think it soon won't work in Classic.

The most disturbing thing about Charles Jolley leaving Nisus Software
is that this is *his software*, and he's leaving it behind. So the
old NisusWriter Classic code is dead, and the chief author of NWE is
gone, too.

The problem is, the NisusWriter user base has always had an impossibly
long wish list. But the people who *care* about NisusWriter are the
ones who were happy with the old version. And, for the most part,
they haven't gotten what they wanted.

I do think the Nisus Software folks need a rest; that incredible cycle
of late betas means that they were doing all-nighters to squash
last-minute bugs. (I've *been* there.) If they don't take a break,
it will probably make it harder, not easier, for them to get the
next release out. But they really do need to think about where the
program is going.

-- 
Bob Waltz
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

"The one thing we learn from history --
   is that no one ever learns from history."
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