Related link: http://www.nisus.com/Express
Nisus Writer Express 2.0 is now available for download, and many users will be delighted to hear that it now supports tables, user-defined stylesheets and a pile of other features and improvements.
It’s always nice to see an alternative word processor making progress, and this upgrade is bound to make a lot of loyal users very happy.
My first impressions were not great - on startup, the program seemed slow and unresponsive, taking several seconds to translate what my fingers were doing on the keyboard into activity on screen! But after a minute or so, when the disk had calmed down and I’d quit one or two idle applications, things were much zippier.
I shall be putting it to test more thoroughly in the coming weeks, when I shall use it instead of Word or TextEdit at every opportunity, and see how it performs.
In the meantime, the nice Nisus folks have a shiny new weblog to entertain us with, too.
Got any first impressions of your own?
While checking NWE
You should also check another alternative - Mellel (http://www.redlers.com ). They were both started about the same time too, so it's a good comparison.