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Nisus Writer is a word processing program for the Apple Macintosh. The program is valued by its users — especially serious users like book authors — for its reliability and unique features. It has been criticized because of its rather unorthodox interpretation of Apple's user interface guidelines. Nisus Writer was the first word processor for Macintosh — long before Unicode was introduced — which was able to handle multiple type systems within one document, e.g. Hebrew, Arabic, Japanese, etc., thanks to WorldScript. Therefore Nisus Writer was an indispensable tool for people who had to integrate passages written in non-Roman script into a regular document, for instance theologians and archeologists. Other distinguishing features of the program were non-contiguous text selection, multiple clipboards, voice recording, and so on. The last version is Nisus Writer 6.5, which can still be purchased. It runs under Mac OS 9.2.2 and PowerPC based Mac OS X, but only in the Classic environment. Nisus Writer Compact was an extra-lean word processor, which was especially designed for Apple's 68K PowerBooks. Nisus has developed a fundamentally new product for Mac OS X: Nisus Writer Express. It is based on Cocoa and complies with Apple's user interface guidelines. Nisus Writer Express is a compact word processor with good Microsoft Word compatibility. It was originally developed as Okito Composer by Charles Jolley of Sprout Systems. Nisus bought Okito Composer and hired Charles as Managing Director where he oversaw further development of the word processor he had created.
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