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Desired heading (or other special content) and jump right to it.Skip the MouseOne thing I love about the new Go To Content command is that I can keep my hands on the keyboard the whole time. Using Nisus Writer’s multi-key shortcuts I’ve established a few shortcuts to trigger variants of the Go To Content command. For example: Command + GT for Go to Text in TOC, and Command + GB for Go to Bookmark.Once a “Go To” dialog is open, it’s quick to finish the job via the keyboard:1. Type a few keywords to narrow down the list of destinations.2. Press the Down Arrow key to select the desired destination.3. Press Return to jump to the destination text.Okay, so maybe it doesn’t take that long to grab your mouse and click around, but it feels really great when you get something done using only the keyboard. You stay more focussed on your writing– in the flow. If you haven’t bothered to train your habits to reduce mouse usage, I suggest you give it a try. It can be a revelation!Learn MoreFor more details on this new feature in Nisus Writer Pro, please see the Go To Content section of our user guide. It goes over some other details and tricks, like using the Go To Content dialog to produce a list of specialized search results. Nisus Writer Pro and Nisus Writer Express recently added support for Apple Silicon and macOS Big Sur. But those versions still had some rough edges to smooth out when running on Big Sur. Today we’re happy to release Nisus Writer Pro 3.2.1 and Nisus Writer Express 4.2.1 to fix the most commonly reported Big Sur issues.Aside from improving app behavior on Big Sur, these updates include a variety of other fixes which you can read about in the full Nisus Writer Pro release notes or Nisus Writer Express release notes.Happy Holidays from all of us at Nisus! We are happy to announce the release of Nisus Writer Pro 3.2 and Nisus Writer Express 4.2. These new versions are significant updates that add support for Dark Mode, macOS Big Sur, and Apple Silicon among other new features.If you’re a Nisus Writer Pro user:• Take a brief tour of what’s new.• Get the update inside the app, direct download, or the Mac App Store.If you’re a Nisus Writer Express user:• Take a brief tour of what’s new.• Get the update inside the app, direct download, or the Mac App Store. Do you enjoy using new features before everyone else? Do you like sharing your ideas and feedback? If you’re an existing Nisus Writer Pro user and interested in helping out, please sign up to become a Nisus Writer beta tester. We’d love for you to join us! Nisus Writer adopts macOS autosave, which means copies of your document are automatically and periodically saved while you’re editing. The system preserves earlier autosaved copies so you can restore prior document versions. These prior versions aren’t kept forever (only Apple

Menu Format > Font > Show Font Previews. You’ll see a dialog like this:This dialog lets you pick a great looking font for your particular text. The previews also take into account whatever other formatting is already applied to your text, e.g. font size, color, underline, etc, so you can maximize WYSIWYGNESS and save yourself a bit of fiddling time. Some customers have asked whether or not the new Macs with Apple Silicon will improve their Nisus Writer writing experience. The short answer is yes! Apple’s new M1 chip is really fast and Nisus Writer has native support for M1 that will definitely reduce wait times.Let’s take a look at some firm numbers to see what you can expect. The following benchmarks were collected by comparing two humble Mac Minis:Intel i5: 2018 Mac Mini, 16GB RAM, SSDApple M1: 2020 Mac Mini, 16GB RAM, SSDThose Macs were tested using two large Nisus Writer documents. One is our Nisus Writer Macro language reference guide, and the other is our Nisus Writer Pro full user guide. Both are relatively complex documents using features like tables, bookmarks, cross-references, etc.Now for the fun part. Let’s have the Intel and M1 Macs fight it out to see who is faster 🤓The above graph is for our macro guide which contains 54K words, over 145 pages, with a 330K compressed file size. The results are clear: the M1 is about twice as fast as Intel. That’s awesome!Let’s try the same common operations using our full user guide:That’s also nearly a 2x speed improvement for the larger file which contains 227K words, over 770 pages, with a 90MB compressed file size.If you’ve read about the M1 elsewhere you already know that it’s a significant leap forward for computing. By all accounts Apple’s new MacBooks are excellent machines. So these results are no surprise, but it’s nice to confirm that the M1 will also speed along your writing. Earlier this week at Apple’s special event (unveiling speedy new MacBook Pros) we learned that macOS Monterey will be released early next week on October 25.If you plan to upgrade to Monterey please make sure that you have the latest version of Nisus Writer. So far as we know Nisus Writer Pro 3.2.2 and Nisus Writer Express 4.2.2 are compatible with Monterey; earlier versions may not be functional.Please let us know if you see any issues with Monterey or otherwise. We’re always happy to help! We are happy to announce the release and immediate availability of Nisus Writer Pro 3.2.2 and Nisus Writer Express 4.2.2.These updates have plenty of fixes and enhancements for your writing pleasure, including preliminary macOS Monterey compatibility (pending Apple’s final release) and Bookends 14 compatibility. You can read the voluminous changes in our Nisus Writer Pro release notes or Nisus Writer Express release notes.These updates are free for existing owners of the current version of each app. You get the update from inside the apps, the Mac App Store, or our website. Nisus Writer has issues with

The latest versions of Nisus Writer Pro (version 3.4) and Nisus Writer Express (version 4.4) resolve Sonoma system incompatibilities and ensure a smooth writing experience. Many issues have been fixed, including crashes that were triggered by Apple’s new predictive text typing feature.New versions are available via all channels depending on your original purchase method: • Use the menu Check for Updates inside the app • Download an update from nisus.com • Update via the Mac App Store (if you purchased from Apple) If you recently updated to macOS Sonoma you likely had trouble with Nisus Writer. The most serious issue is related to Apple’s updated system-wide predictive text typing feature, which consistently triggers crashes in Nisus Writer.There are a few other Sonoma issues that affect Nisus Writer, including problems using the print dialog. We have a pre-release beta version of Nisus Writer Pro that attempts to fix the most serious of these problems.We’re very sorry for the trouble! We hope the beta helps while we smooth out other remaining issues.UPDATE: The beta has been superseded by new app versions that officially support macOS Sonoma. We are happy to announce the release of Nisus Writer Pro version 3.3 and Nisus Writer Express version 4.3. The main points are to ensure compatibility with macOS Ventura (pending Apple’s final release) and restore the Spanish localization. There’s also the usual batch of smaller fixes and improvements.These app updates are free for existing users of current versions. The updates are available in-app using the menu Check For Updates, via the Mac App Store, or as downloads from our website. Apple recently made it possible for adventurous Mac users to install macOS Ventura ahead of the new system’s final release. A developer account is no longer required; any user can participate. You need only enroll in Apple’s beta program.We generally don’t recommend that our users try beta versions of macOS, unless you have a high threshold for potential headaches (and good data backups). However, if you are sinking your toes into Ventura’s sandy beaches, be aware that the current release versions of Nisus Writer are not compatible. Nisus Writer will likely crash when attempting to load documents on Ventura.We are working on updates to smooth over any incompatibilities that aren’t resolved by Ventura’s final release. If you need access to a version of Nisus Writer that runs on Ventura please join the Nisus beta team. We’re already privately testing to make sure we’re ready for Ventura’s release one way or another.UPDATE: Nisus Writer has been updated for macOS Ventura compatibility (pending Apple’s final release). Nisus Writer’s font menu has long been WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get, for any kids out there). But that isn’t always helpful. You don’t want to see how a list of font names will look. You actually want to see how your text will look.This is where Nisus Writer’s font preview can help. For example, let’s say that you select a text equation in your document and use the

Two recently released pieces of software:1. The latest beta/preview version of macOS Monterey. Nisus Writer will often crash due to changes in the macOS system.2. The recently released Bookends version 14. Nisus Writer can’t communicate directly with this version of Bookends due to internal changes in how the app identifies itself.We are working on a software update to Nisus Writer that addresses all of these issues. We hope to finalize and release those updates soon. However, if you need to bypass these problems immediately please contact us about obtaining early access to a private beta version of Nisus Writer.UPDATE: These issues have been resolved in Nisus Writer Pro version 3.2.2 and Nisus Writer Express 4.2.2. We’ve recently had more reports that Nisus Writer Pro users can’t import or export file formats that require conversion (e.g. DOCX). The error message states that “you do not have permission” to run the Nisus File Converter app. The alert looks like this:This is caused by a bug that was introduced in recent versions of macOS Catalina and Big Sur. It affects not only Nisus Writer’s file converter, but also other kinds of helper apps. Apple has a support page for affected scanner software. MacRumors reports that apparently Apple will fix the problem in a future system update.To quickly bypass the issue you can click the “Retry” button in Nisus Writer Pro. That will use a backup converter built into macOS. However, be aware that this backup conversion is less thorough and will omit special content like styles, comments, footnotes, etc.You can fully bypass the issue by first manually launching the Nisus File Converter app in the Finder. Please see our FAQ for a precise list of workaround steps and more details on this issue. In certain kinds of writing (e.g. mathematics or linguistics) it can be useful to insert characters with a line on top. This line is known by several names like an overbar, overline, or macron. Here are some examples of such characters:ā ō n̅You can easily enter such characters in Nisus Writer and other Mac apps.How to type standard overline characters:If you’re using a recent version of macOS like Catalina or Big Sur you can type several standard overline characters simply by holding down a letter key on your keyboard. As explained in Apple’s support document on typing accents, you hold down the letter key (e.g. the “A” key) for a few seconds. A popover will appear with several character variations:You can now either click the desired character, or press the corresponding number key, to insert it.How to add an overline to any character:The standard keyboard only allows easy access to certain popular overline characters. But you can use a combining overline character to place a line over virtually any other character. Here’s how you can insert a combining overline:1. Type the base character, e.g. the letter “N”.2. Show Apple’s Unicode/emoji character palette. There are a variety of ways to do this. One way is to use the menu Insert >

And set up, but once you do we hope you’ll see how much of a pleasure writing can be with Nisus Writer. We have been receiving quite a bit of email on this subject lately, so I thought I would explain how to qualify for upgrade pricing if you have purchased from the Mac App Store. The Mac App Store does not allow developers to offer upgrade pricing. That leaves customers with two choices:Purchase Nisus Writer at full price on the Mac App Store. Purchase directly through our store.If you would like to purchase through us to receive the upgrade discount, you can follow the excellent instructions Martin provided in our FAQ (which answers many, many Nisus app related questions). Alternatively, you can email your Mac App Store receipt as proof of purchase. Please know that while we make more money from direct purchases, feel free to buy from wherever you like. All of our customers are treated and appreciated in the same way. Nisus Writer recently added a feature that allows you to extract editable text from your photos, scans, PDFs, and other images. This process is often called optical character recognition (aka OCR).Let’s see how text extraction works using a COVID relief notice I recently received from the United States government:Once the image is in Nisus Writer Pro document, select it and use the Extract Text From Image command to generate an editable text version of the image:Most of the text is correct and in sequence. There are a few minor errors and text misplacements, like the number 6 appearing before the title– perhaps caused by the Treasury Department’s seal alongside the main textual content.Let’s try a few others images, like this paperback book and store receipt:Overall pretty good! Usually editing extracted text is a better starting point than retyping something entirely.The accuracy of the extraction will depend on a variety of factors including the quality of the image, whether text is slanted or rotated, the language and words in the text, and your system version. Nisus Writer uses Apple’s machine learning capabilities to accomplish this task, and requires at least macOS 10.15 Catalina.Hopefully you’ll find a good use for this new feature. One of my favorite new features in Nisus Writer Pro 3 is the Go To Content command. Whenever I’m writing a reasonably complex document I often want to jump around it, to consult material from other sections or simply work on different parts of the text. Nisus Writer has a Navigator sidebar that can aid in this task, showing key document structure like the Table of Contents or Bookmarks. But I wanted a faster workflow.You can use the new Go To Content menu to see a list of available destinations, like all your Table of Contents headings. Or perhaps all text using a particular paragraph style:This listing allows you to quickly filter by keyword or partial text, so you only have a few destinations to look through. This is a great way to find the

The “style is currently used” dialogYou should consider carefully how you want to proceed.Resolve conflicts between stylesYou can copy and paste text with its associated styles from one document to another.Depending on what you have set in your General preferences of Nisus Writer Pro (as explained in “Set “Defaults” for the Application” on page 566) you have a variety of choices. The default is set to Always ask me what to do.If a Style with the same name already exists in a new document, but it has different formatting, Nisus Writer Pro presents a sheet that offers a series of choices.Figure 136 The Style conflict sheetAs explained in the dialog sheet that appears, the options have these effects◦ Use Existing StylesThe document’s existing styles will be used for the pasted text.◦ Add Pasted StylesThe styles in the pasted text will be renamed (by appending a numeral in sequence) and added to the styles of the document.If you are secure in your decisions you can check:◦ Do not ask again for this document as long as it remains open.If you are not sure what you want to do:◦ Click Cancel.Maintain a Style LibraryAs explained in the beginning of this section on pages 136 and 137, Nisus Writer Pro displays all of the styles that exist in a particular document in the Style Sheet view and in the Styles palettes as well as on the Character Style, Paragraph Style and Note Style submenus of the Format menu. The Nisus New File comes