First, my apologies and thanks to those that are not interested in this topic. Please use the "Delete" button, which is very handy! :-) 

Anyway, I have some questions about using Nisus Pro (for the Mac OS), and was encouraged by a posting by a scholar (Kapp? pardon me for forgetting the precise name and email ID).

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My situation

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1. I've been using computers since 1979 (with education from the Moore School of Engineering and Wharton at Penn). So, ... I'm comfortable using any computer hardware and software.

2. I've used Nisus Pro, so it's not new to me. I've also used FrameMaker, which I think is the best word-processing application, and unfortunately discontinued for the Mac OS after a certain version. I do not find MS Word a user-friendly application for handling certain non-Roman fonts such as Tamil. sigh. gripe!

3. I've been working on a paper-manuscript (from ~1547). I have almost completed the work (an incredibly difficult task started and completed by my collaborator), my foot-notes, and what-not (as you scholars know what it involves to write and prepare a "camera-ready copy").

4. I'm using a loaned Mac OS X (Lion) (from George Hart), which has Nisus Pro (2.0.2). I've used Nisus Pro before, so it's not new to me.

5. Having used FrameMaker for many years (at 10+ different computer companies), I realized that MS Word was not good enough for my academic work. But, God, this Nisus Pro is amazingly chewing up my time endlessly! Their user manual is really not very helpful. It just describes how to use the Menu Items, but does not tell us how to do certain things. All in all, a lousy deal. Try to generate a TOC, or try to "Go to" a certain page ... . See what happens. 

6. There seem to be many bugs ("cockroach-type") in the product (Nisus Pro). Generating a TOC, Indexing, Table formation ... to list a few of the problems in this software. Try to develop a Table, and try to modify it's columns/cells just by grabbing on to the cursor.

I need

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Someone (or more) who would be willing to help me through my current project, using my loaned Mac OS X (10.7) using Tamil fonts, using Nisus Pro, generating a proper TOC, generating a proper Index, and so on and so forth. 

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Thanks and regards,

rajam