Big changes in Nisus Writer Pro 1.1

The one thing that is still missing in Apple apps in general is full support for OpenType complex scripts (for instance, Indic scripts, used by one-sixth of humanity...). I need support for scripts like Kannada, Tamil and Bengali professionally. - Once Apple gets this right, my only reason for using Windhose will no longer exist, and I'll be a much happier person.

The 5/26 comments regarding Mellel leave me cold, as I find it is designed for users with far more expertise than I have or need. Its latest caper on my Intel Core 2 Duo iMac, running 10.4.11: it would not quit while I was trying to restart or to shut down. The "quit Mellel" was grayed out and none of the force-quit keyboard tricks worked. Only much later did OS X ask if I wanted to force quit. O, boy, did I ever!! Nisus Express for me.

"...what I think is great in Nisus is its speed, small resource footprint (Word 2008 is a monster), beautiful OS X Cocoa goodness combined with a really thoughtful UI, nice font rendering (Pages big downfall)..." --SPower

What are you talking about? Pages uses the OS X font rendering engine and displays type beautifully. Clarification, please.

I use express and the only reason I'm using nisus is its support for Arabic, being a native Arabic speaker I do often need to use Arabic. Nisus is a nice product but its expensive and nowhere as good as office or iwork, but its support for Arabic which office completely ignores and iwork poorly supports makes it my choice for a word processor.

I've been trying this out and it is nice. A true word replacement that uses RTF as its native format (so all your files are highly transportable among apps). The sticking point for me is the price. $79 for a word processor is steep when the full MS Office suite is $129 and iWork is $69. It is particularly pricey when you consider that in both suites the word processor (Word and Pages, respectively) have a richer feature set, especially when it comes to adding media to your documents. There are still reasons I prefer Nisus Writer Pro, but a that price I feel like I'm getting ripped off!. $49 for the Pro version and $29 for the Express would be more like it.