One of the best word processors for the Mac, Nisus is easy and powerful, and many of its powerful features are also easy. If you haven’t used styles or document-level outlining because other word processors make them difficult, try Nisus.
- AppleScript as shell scripting language
- AppleScript can be run from the shell pretty much like any other shell scripting language—it doesn’t even always need a logged-in user.
- Automatically grab flavor text snippets in Nisus
- In Nisus, it is very easy to grab all text of a specific style, and its nearest heading. This makes it easy to make “room description cards” for handing to the players after reading them.
- Constructing encounter tables using Nisus
- Here’s a Nisus Writer macro that makes it a little easier to create encounter tables.
- Importing an index into Nisus
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Nisus makes it very easy to import an externally-generated index into a document. - Lulu, Nisus, and Gods & Monsters
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Lulu is sometimes really annoying. But they usually get the job done. Nisus, on the other hand, is rarely annoying to use and always gets the job done. - The New Lost Castle of the Astronomers
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Lost Castle of the Astronomers has been updated to the more table-friendly format. It’s got a better cover, too! - Nisus HTML conversion
- New features in Nisus’s scripting language make HTML conversion almost a breeze.
- Nisus HTML script now handles floating content
- My Nisus simple HTML publish script now handles floating images and floating text boxes.
- Nisus HTML script now handles tables
- My Nisus HTML publishing script now handles converting tables to HTML tables.
- Nisus Writer Pro 2.0
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The new Nisus is pure awesome: very easy to use, and it does everything I need. - Nisus “clean HTML” macro
- The Nisus macro language is Perl; this means we can use all of Perl’s strengths as a text filter scripting language in Nisus.
- Stack windows on top of each other
- If you want to stack multiple windows directly on top of each other, it’s easy to do in any well-behaved application, such as Nisus Writer Pro, Safari, Mail, and even older applications like AppleWorks 6 and Microsoft Word X.
- Text to image filter for Smashwords conversions
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Smashwords has very strange requirements for ebooks. This script is what I use to convert books to .doc format for Smashwords, including converting tables to images.
