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Re: Bean in 10.12

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Lewis wrote:
> cb <cb@aol.com> wrote:
>>> What's wrong with Pages?
>>
>> It's not exactly lightweight, is it?
>
> Isn't it? It's pretty small, very fast (to launch and use), works
> across Mac and iOS and Web, and is free*. I suppose it depends how you
> define lightweight.
>
> TextEdit is a very good lightweight word processor. Much more capable
> than most people realize, but then it's a mater of what you need.
>
> I used to use Nisus, and I now it's still getting updates. There's also
> Scrivner. But again, depends on what you need.
>
> * For anyone who's bought a Mac or iOS device in the last... um.. 7
> years?

I don't like Pages either. I've been forced to use it for some special 
work like translating a huge user manual. It was such a disaster to work 
with that I've totally given up using it - except for that specific work.

I've been using NisusWriter since way back in 1994 - now on NW Pro 2.x 
and I find it and regard it as one of the best word processors ever made 
for Mac... Alone the feature that NWP works with inline graphics in RTF 
files is a real great feature. - And for PC users to use such files it's 
just to rename '.rtf' to '.doc' - then any graphics are kept correctly.:-)

And of course the capabilities of working in multiple languages and type 
sets is another main feature. - Here NWP (and NisusWriter Express) along 
with Mellel are the two only fully enhanced text-/word processors that 
are capable of making such complex writings.

I agree that using NWP, NWE or Mellel as a replacement for TextEdit is 
far beyond reasonability. - Here is it that Bean can step in and enhance 
functionalities that TextEdit can't do. - Infact TextEdit is only a 
major upgrade to the old SimpleText from OS 9.x. Well maybe more correct 
to say TextEdit is an upgrade to the app WorldText included in the 
developer kits...

The fastest and most stable and yet real powerful version of Bean is the 
v.2.4.5 which I still prefer towards v.3.1.1 and 3.2.5 though those two 
versions are so much enhanced that you no longer can call it a 
'replacement' for TextEdit, but is a real small and powerful fully 
enhanced word processor with text editing features.

Yes, it hasn't been updated since 2013, but why "fix anything if it 
ain't broke"? - Also earlier versions came out with long intervals. - I 
don't know, but I think he only releases new versions when the new main 
OS has been so much re-written that it will require a main upgrade of 
one or more applications.

So maybe it would be time now for the developer to make a new main 
upgrade of Bean to - let's say a version 3.5.:-)

Cheers, Erik Richard

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NisusWriter - The Future In Multilingual Text Processing - www.nisus.com
Openoffice.org - The Modern Productivity Solution - www.openoffice.org
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Bean in 10.12 William Hanna <bill@invalid.invalid> - 2016-09-23 15:33 -0700
  Re: Bean in 10.12 cb <cb@aol.com> - 2016-09-25 07:04 +0200
    Re: Bean in 10.12 Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2016-09-24 23:25 -0700
      Re: Bean in 10.12 cb <cb@aol.com> - 2016-09-25 10:54 +0200
        Re: Bean in 10.12 ErikRS <mac-dane@is.invalid> - 2016-09-25 11:24 +0200
          Re: Bean in 10.12 cb <cb@aol.com> - 2016-09-25 12:00 +0200
            Re: Bean in 10.12 ErikRS <mac-dane@is.invalid> - 2016-09-25 13:52 +0200
              Re: Bean in 10.12 cb <cb@aol.com> - 2016-09-25 17:42 +0200
                Re: Bean in 10.12 William Hanna <bill@invalid.invalid> - 2016-09-25 10:31 -0700
                Re: Bean in 10.12 cb <cb@aol.com> - 2016-09-26 04:55 +0200
                Re: Bean in 10.12 William Hanna <bill@invalid.invalid> - 2016-10-02 16:05 -0700
        Re: Bean in 10.12 Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-09-25 08:29 -0400
          Re: Bean in 10.12 cb <cb@aol.com> - 2016-09-25 17:38 +0200
            Re: Bean in 10.12 Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-09-25 13:00 -0400
            Re: Bean in 10.12 Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-09-26 05:00 +0000
              Re: Bean in 10.12 ErikRS <mac-dane@is.invalid> - 2016-09-26 10:51 +0200
                Re: Bean in 10.12 gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2016-09-26 10:26 -0700
                Re: Bean in 10.12 ErikRS <mac-dane@is.invalid> - 2016-09-26 20:41 +0200
                Re: Bean in 10.12 gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2016-09-26 14:41 -0700
                Re: Bean in 10.12 Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-09-27 01:11 +0000
  Re: Bean in 10.12 gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2016-09-26 10:17 -0700
    Re: Bean in 10.12 cb <cb@aol.com> - 2016-09-27 11:45 +0200
      Re: Bean in 10.12 gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2016-09-28 08:07 -0700
  Re: Bean in 10.12 William Hanna <bill@invalid.invalid> - 2016-10-24 16:00 -0700

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