Nisus Writer Pro ® User’s Guide
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Contents Welcome to Nisus Writer Pro ................... i Before You Begin ................................................ i Using the Mouse and/or the Trackpad .............. i About the Nisus Writer Pro Documentation ..... i Using the Documentation ............................... ii Getting Help .................................................... ii Get online help .............................................. ii Getting Set Up .................................................
b Table of Contents Have the period appear correctly in a left to right sentence that ends with a right to left word ................ 34 Insert a right to left table in a left to right section ....... 35 Selecting Text ................................................. 36 Select text using the mouse or trackpad .......... 36 Select a column of text (rectangular selection) . 36 Select text from different places in the document (multipart selection) ......................................
Table of Contents Set tabs ....................................................... 85 Set a tab visually ......................................... 85 Set a tab using the menus .............................. 86 Use leader tabs ........................................... 86 Set the type of leader before placing a tab ......... 87 Move a tab indicator using the mouse or trackpad ................................................................ 88 Move a tab indicator using the keyboard ...........
d Table of Contents Move a header or footer higher or lower on the page .......................................................... 139 Move a header or footer higher or lower in relation to the text of your document ............ 139 Deleting Headers and Footers ..................... 140 Hide headers and footers ............................. 140 Numbering Pages ........................................ 141 Insert the current page number (once) on a specific page ..........................................
Table of Contents Enter images in a table ................................ 197 Navigate among the cells of a table .............. 198 Select cells, or portions of… or the entire table ................................................................. 198 Determine the alignment (position) of a table in the document ............................................. 198 Determine the alignment (position) of text in a table .........................................................
f Table of Contents Determine what separates the index entry from its reference ................................................................. 246 Determine what “leader” separates the index entry from its reference ................................................... 247 Determine the characters that separate page numbers in the index ............................................. 247 Have all sub-levels of the index appear on the same line (space permitting) ...........................................
Table of Contents g Special “Styles” ........................................... 283 Plain Text ................................................... Remove style attributes from text .................. Change the height of text in relation to the baseline ..................................................... Return raised or lowered text to the baseline . 283 283 283 283 Increase or decrease the height by a specific amount ..............................................................
h Table of Contents Review comment histories .......................... 337 Display comments of a particular “author” . 338 Printing comments ...................................... 338 Tracking Changes to Your Documents ....... 339 Start tracking changes .................................. 339 Stop tracking changes ................................. 341 Copying and pasting text with tracked changes ................................................................. 341 View and review tracked changes .....
Table of Contents Determine What QuickFix Fixes ................. 385 Various QuickFixes ..................................... 385 Enter smart quotes as you type ...................... 386 Superscript ordinals as you type .................... 386 Capitalize the first word of sentences as you type .............................................................. 386 Fix typos as you type .................................. 386 Add or subtract, or modify a “typo” that gets fixed ................................
j Table of Contents Send the active document as an RTF file .......... 423 Send the active document as a PDF file ........... 423 Standardizing Your Correspondence Stationery ........................................................................ 424 Format and Print Envelopes ......................... 424 Afterword .......................................... 427 Send Feedback to Nisus Software Inc. ....... 427 See What Information You Send with “Send Feedback…” ..........................................
Welcome to Nisus Writer Pro Nisus [(nice us): L., noun of action f. niti, to strive, endeavor.] Effort, endeavor. The Nisus Writer Pro icon,illustrated in Figure 1 on page iii, shows a picture of Hermes a Greek god who served as the herald and messenger of other gods, identified by the Romans with Mercury and generally pictured with winged hat, carrying a caduceus (a winged staff with two serpents); he was also the god of science, eloquence, and cunning.
ii Getting Help Welcome to Nisus Writer Pro • a glossary of useful terms beginning on page 461 Because certain tasks require the interaction of a variety of aspects of the application, crossreferences to additional information appear throughout the document. Using the Documentation Be aware of these conventions as you follow the instructions in the manual: • Text in this style: Command identifies a menu command or dialog option to choose including buttons that appear in dialogs.
Welcome to Nisus Writer Pro Installing Nisus Writer Pro Installing Nisus Writer Pro Installing Nisus Writer Pro is a simple process. Install Nisus Writer Pro on your Macintosh 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Figure 1 Make sure your Macintosh runs Mac OS X Tiger (10.4) or later. Insert the CD into the disk drive or download the disk image. Drag the Nisus Writer Pro and Thesaurus icons to the Applications folder of your Hard Disk. Start Nisus Writer Pro.
iv Enter your license number Welcome to Nisus Writer Pro folder. In such a case, Nisus Writer Pro invites you to move the application into the Applications folder (which is advised) as illustrated in Figure 4. Click Move to Applications Folder and Nisus Writer Pro momentarily shuts down, moves itself and restarts. Figure 4 The Move to Applications folder dialog As Nisus Writer Pro continues to open, a third window displays the license agreement. Feel free to read this standard agreement.
Welcome to Nisus Writer Pro Figure 6 Enter your license number The Licenses dialog 3. If you have used up your demo time and have not yet purchased the program, click Buy License…. This opens your Web browser and takes you to the Nisus Software Inc. online store where you can purchase a license. ▶ and have already purchased the program, click Enter License…. ▶ Figure 7 The Add License dialog 4. 5. 6. 7. Enter your name as the Owner. Press @ and enter your License Number.
vi Enter your license number 8. Welcome to Nisus Writer Pro your copy so that you can be eligible for technical support, notified of updates and to receive the Nisus Newsletter which includes additional tips and hints about how you can use the program. Click Register… or Not Now depending on your situation. • Register… closes the Add License dialog opens your Web browser to the Nisus Software Inc. product registration page. • Not Now closes the Add License dialog. 9.
Getting Started For those who don’t believe in reading manuals, this “Quick Start” offers the bare minimum of what you need to know to start the application, create and/or open a file, write and edit some text, then save and print it. Nisus Writer Pro a “Grand Tour” is where you learn about Nisus Writer Pro menus, dialogs, and tools. Review this section to learn more about the Nisus Writer Pro working environment and its features.
2 Quick Start Use the Open… command. Choose the menu command File > Open…. From the Open dialog that appears navigate to the location of your file. When you see it in the list, double click the name of the file you want to open (or click once to select the file and then click the Open button). You can open any file you have saved in your Nisus Documents folder. ▶ Use the Document Manager. 1. Choose the menu command Window > Document Manager. 2. Scroll through the list of files that appears there. 3.
Getting Started 3 To control the overall appearance of a longer document, your best solution is to use Styles. These are explained in the section “Formatting Documents Using Style Sheets” beginning on page 95. The Nisus New File that comes with Nisus Writer Pro has a number of Styles. ▶ To modify Styles to fit your own needs and desires see the section “Modify a style” which begins on page 100.
4 Quick Start 3. Click Save in the Save As dialog. You can learn more about printing on page 359. Quit Nisus Writer Pro You can leave Nisus Writer Pro open in the background all the time. You can keep a journal page open all the time, dragging in snippets of text, images from other applications and URLs directly off the Web bookmarking them, then easily jumping to or finding what you have stored there. However, if you insist… Choose Quit Nisus Writer Pro from the bottom of the Nisus Writer Pro menu.
Nisus Writer Pro — a “Grand Tour” Have you ever entered a new building or travelled to a new land and stood bedazzled by what lay before you? Where were all those buttons and knobs? Why were all the street signs and address markers different from what you knew before? Even cars, which are all pretty standard in their tools, put the light windshield wiper controls in different locations. So it is, also, with software.
6 The Nisus Writer Pro window Getting Started The Nisus Writer Pro window Nisus Writer Pro’s window resembles those of other Macintosh applications. ! Not all screenshots depicting the Toolbar show the default item set. To customize your own Toolbar see “Customize Your Toolbar“ on page 391.
Getting Started The Menu Bar The Nisus Writer Pro icon in the Dock Figure 12 The Nisus Writer Pro icon, and its menu, in the Dock The Nisus Writer Pro Dock icon also has a special menu that appears when you press 6 or “right click” your mouse or “secondary click” your trackpad. From it you can choose any of your open windows. The menu also indicates: • • which document window is active (the check mark) which is in the Dock (the diamond).
8 The Title Bar Getting Started View Use View to alter the manner in which Nisus Writer Pro displays your document and its window. A complete listing and description of the commands of this menu begins on page 440. Format Use Format (with its many submenus) to change the way your text appears in your document. A complete listing and description of the commands of this menu begins on page 443. Table Use Table to insert and modify tables.
Getting Started Nisus Writer Pro pointer variations Nisus Writer Pro windows As you work with multiple windows • • • • • • • • • The pointer is an arrow in all window regions not allowing text entry. Exceptions to this include when the pointer hovers over one of the gray lines that determine the margins or the size of the headers or footers. Dialog sheets apply to the window. in which they appear. Press 4 and click the Maximize button to maximize all open Nisus Writer Pro windows.
10 The Nisus Writer Pro Toolbar Getting Started Keyboard shortcuts in Nisus Writer Pro You can use the keyboard for more than entering text and numbers. You can use it to give instructions to the computer to perform certain tasks. Macintosh keyboards include a variety of modifier keys and function keys. The four modifier keys are A (Command), 1 (Shift), 4 (Option), and 6 (Control). You can assign almost any key to any command in the menus of Nisus Writer Pro.
Getting Started The Nisus Writer Pro rulers and Statusbar • 11 Create a list and modify its style. For more information on creating lists see page 41. Toward the right side of the Toolbar are buttons you can use to • Insert a table with a click and a drag. For more information on inserting tables in your documents see the section beginning on page 195. • Insert a shape in your document. For more information on inserting shapes in your documents see the section beginning on page 165.
12 The Nisus Writer Pro rulers and Statusbar Getting Started Figure 18 Paragraph formatting icons You can also display “Paragraph Formatting Icons” which include a ruler icon that contains the information related to the shape of your paragraph, in the “gutter” or (depending on the alignment) closest margin of your document as illustrated in Figure 18. To do so, choose the menu command View > Show Paragraph Formatting Icons.
Getting Started The Nisus Writer Pro rulers and Statusbar 13 Figure 19 The Nisus Writer Pro Statusbar • ! The far left of the Statusbar indicates the current (displayed) page number of the total pages of the document. When in Draft View this is blank as there are no “pages”. When running a macro the words “Running macro” and the macro’s name appear in this area. When the document is automatically saved a progress bar appears in this area.
14 The Nisus Writer Pro rulers and Statusbar Getting Started Always visible to the right of the vertical dotted line the tag (from left to right) • The “flag” (Language Tag) Indicates the language of the document (and offers quick access to the Language menu). For more information on writing in multiple languages see page 27. ! The flag implies no political allegiance or association. The flag is of the entire people (and it represents the language of that people), not a particular party.
Getting Started The Nisus Writer Pro Tooldrawer 15 The Nisus Writer Pro Tooldrawer The Nisus Writer Pro Tooldrawer holds a number of palettes to ease the manipulation of your text. • • Almost all of the tools available in palettes of the Tooldrawer have counterparts on the menus. However there are more tools that are available in the menus that do not have counterparts in the palettes of the Tooldrawer.
16 The Nisus Writer Pro Tooldrawer ! Getting Started The Tooldrawer is not available in Full Screen view though individual palettes removed from the Tooldrawer are. Modify the Nisus Writer Pro Tooldrawer The Nisus Writer Pro Tooldrawer holds a number of palettes to ease the manipulation of your document and its text. Palettes are grouped according to task. You can switch among the various groups using the five buttons and the right-pointing chevron (or guillemet ») at the top of the Tooldrawer.
Getting Started The Nisus Writer Pro Tooldrawer 17 Change the palettes that display in the Tooldrawer You can rearrange the palettes that appear in any particular group. You can have a palette appear in multiple groups, thereby making those tools available in more contexts.
18 The Nisus Writer Pro Tooldrawer Getting Started confirm your choice by pressing Enter: T, or Return < Nisus Writer Pro returns its focus back to the main document selection from the palette. The Character palette The Character palette, illustrated in Figure 98, Figure 99 and Figure 100 on page 91, indicates the font family, typeface, options, color and size of selected text. It also presents the tools to modify each of those attributes. Change the font 1. 2. 3. Select the text you wish to change.
Getting Started The Nisus Writer Pro Tooldrawer 19 While the slider goes up to 128 pt., you can enter any size you like in the size display text box, or increase the size by one point at a time using the “stepper” as illustrated in Figure 22.
20 The Nisus Writer Pro Tooldrawer Getting Started If you know the size you want, click and select (or double-click) the size display and type the size. When you are satisfied, press T or @ to confirm your choice. Set the indents (line wrap area) 1. 2. 3. Click the Indents tab in the Paragraph palette. Select the text (lines or paragraphs) you wish to change. Click the various “steppers” to the settings you want. Control for widows and orphans 1. 2.
Getting Started ! The Nisus Writer Pro Tooldrawer The other tool palettes will be described as they are needed for the specific tasks they control. In alphabetical order (the way they appear in the menu Window > Palettes) they are: The Columns palette The Columns palette is described on page 130. The Headers and Footers palette The Headers and Footers palette is described on page 137. The Indexing palette The Indexing palette is described on page 249.
22 The Nisus Writer Pro Tooldrawer The Table Cell Shading palette The Table Cell Shading palette is described on pages 213 through 214. The Table Cells palette The Table Cells palette is described on pages 202, 203 and 210. The Table of Contents palette The Table of Contents palette is described on page 233.
Creating Documents Now that you’ve had a grand tour and a brief description of the menu commands of the Nisus Writer Pro working environment you are ready to begin creating and editing your documents. This is the major portion of the documentation. It describes all the tools you need to create basic printable documents. Writing and Editing ............................................................................ 23 Formatting Documents ....................................................................
24 Entering (Typing) Text Writing and Editing remember what keys to press to have them display. Access to many of these characters is explained in “Appendix III - Typing Unusual Characters” on page 466. You can, however, enter most of these characters in a more direct fashion. ▶ Choose the character desired directly from the menu Insert > Special Character, or ▶ Choose the character desired directly from the menu Edit > Special Characters.
Creating Documents 25 Customizing the Special Characters palette You can also edit existing special character sets, remove existing sets and even add new ones. Add characters to a set If you know how to type the character: 1. Choose Customize Special Characters… from the bottom of • • • the menu Insert > Special Character, or the menu Edit > Special Characters, or the Gear menu in the Special Characters palette. The Edit Special Characters window appears as illustrated in Figure 24.
26 Entering (Typing) Text Writing and Editing Figure 25 Customizing the Special Characters palette Add your own set to the palette and menu You can even create you own personal set of special characters that you tend to use most often. 1. Choose Customize Special Characters… from the bottom of • • • 2. 3. 4. 5. the menu Insert > Special Character, or the menu Edit > Special Characters, or the Gear menu in the Special Characters palette.
Creating Documents 27 Writing in Multiple Languages Though it is invisible, “Language” is an attribute of your text. If applied correctly, changing the language of a portion of the text changes the • • • • input method (keyboard), dictionary and/or thesaurus (if there is one for that language), font (if appropriate), QuickFix typo and related corrections (if you have set them).
28 Writing in Multiple Languages Writing and Editing Figure 26 Text in Klingon ! If you place a TIFF file in Nisus Writer Pro’s Languages folder, ~/Library/Application Support/Nisus Writer/Languages/ using the same name as a custom language (eg: “Klingon.tiff”), the image will be used in the flag menus when you relaunch Nisus Writer Pro as illustrated in Figure 26.
Creating Documents 29 Figure 28 The “+” (plus) portion of the Languages Preferences 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Select any language in the column of available languages to customize its behavior in Nisus Writer Pro. From the Spelling pop-up menu choose the appropriate spelling checker dictionary. You can choose from among any of the dictionaries you have in your System (Apple’s own dictionary or those available via CocoAspell or Spell Catcher or, for Hebrew).
30 Writing in Multiple Languages Writing and Editing Not all fonts in the same point size are the same size visually. This is particularly so in fonts that display characters in different script systems. In order to help keep your text’s appearance check Also switch font size and set the secondary font’s size as illustrated in Figure 29 when in the Font panel. Figure 29 Match the secondary font’s size to that of the primary font ! Because standard European style Arabic numerals (1, 2, 3, etc.
Creating Documents 31 • Switch to last used keyboard If the different languages you use have multiple input methods and you switch among those various methods you can have Nisus Writer Pro use the most recently used method. • Switch to chosen keyboard If the different languages you use have multiple input methods and you prefer to use a specific method you can have Nisus Writer Pro use the particular one you designate.
32 Writing in Multiple Languages Writing and Editing Write in a different language (to switch languages) 1. 2. 3. ! Make sure that you have set your International System Preferences and your Nisus Writer Pro Language Preferences as indicated in Appendix IV - “Set up language support on your Macintosh” on page 470 and “Set up language support in Nisus Writer Pro” on page 27.
Creating Documents 33 Figure 34 The change direction of document dialog 2. ! Choose the option you want. In either case, Nisus Writer Pro will switch the display of the ruler as well as the indent and outdent buttons on the Toolbar. The Indent and Outdent buttons are available if you customize your Toolbar, as explained in the section “Customize Your Toolbar” on page 391. Figure 35 The right to left ruler and Indent/Outdent buttons 3. Type your text.
34 Writing in Multiple Languages Writing and Editing Have the period appear correctly in a left to right sentence that ends with a right to left word • The problem… as received by technical support: First I write English then אבל. עבריתthe עבריתcomes out on the wrong side of the period.
Creating Documents 35 Insert a right to left table in a left to right section You can adjust the direction of the tables using the Paragraph palette. ! New tables derive their direction from the direction you have set for your section (or the document if you only have one section). Therefore, if you insert a table while in right to left text of a left to right section or document, the insert table pop-up menu and the actual table display in left to right. 1. Select all the cells in the table. 2.
36 Selecting Text Writing and Editing Selecting Text Select text using the mouse or trackpad ▶ ▶ ▶ ▶ Drag across text to select it. Double-click to select a word. Triple-click to select a sentence (also selects a following note character, if present). Quadruple-click to select a paragraph. Select a column of text (rectangular selection) 1. 2. Press 4. Drag across the text to select it. Select text from different places in the document (multipart selection) 1. 2. Drag across the text to select it.
Creating Documents 37 Select using the keyboard You can use your keyboard to select various amounts of text. Selecting text using the keyboard one character 1 . one word To select forward… 14 . press… one line 1 - to end of line 1 A .
38 Selecting Text Writing and Editing “De-select” text from a selection This is not to be confused with removing/deleting selected text from your document, but, when you have a lot of text selected and you want to “de-select” some of that text. ▶ Press A and double-click (or double-click and drag) over the text you want to remove from the selection. This creates a multipart selection of the previously selected area.
Creating Documents 2. 3. 4. ▶ ! 39 you want to move. You can use Drag and Drop to move selections into another Nisus Writer Pro document (or text editable window (the Clipboard or the Find/Replace window)), to the desktop as clippings or into other Drag and Drop compatible applications. Move the pointer over the selected text. Click and drag the text to where you want it. Release the mouse or trackpad button. Press 4 as you drag your selection to place a copy of your selection where you drop it.
40 Using the Clipboards Writing and Editing Paste attributes only, without their text You can paste the attributes of text you have copied elsewhere in your document. This causes the selection to assume those distant attributes without altering the selected text. 1. Select the text with the attributes you want. 2. Choose the menu command Edit > Copy > Copy Character Attributes. You can apply character attributes using the Dropper on the Toolbar as well.
Creating Documents ! 41 Warning! Nisus Writer Pro only transfers the contents of the Current Clipboard to the System Clipboard when you quit the application. Anything you have on any other clipboards is eliminated. To be sure you do not lose any material that may be on your clipboards you may want to paste it into one or more documents before quitting Nisus Writer Pro. Nonetheless, Nisus Writer Pro comes with a set of macros designed to help you work with, and even save, your Clipboards.
42 Creating Lists Writing and Editing About lists As a rule, list item numbers (if they appear (bullets are not numbers)), appear in an increasing sequence. A particular list item gets its number from the previously used number of the same list style and the same list level. Each list style can have the option Continue Throughout Document turned on or off in the Style Sheet view.
Creating Documents 43 Figure 40 The Lists palette Insert a bulleted list 1. 2. Choose the menu command Format > Lists > Bullet List. Begin typing. Each time you press <, your new paragraph will begin with a bullet. End a bulleted list ▶ Choose the menu command Format > Lists > None. Apply bullets to a series of paragraphs 1. 2. Select the paragraphs you want to have bulleted. Choose the menu command Format > Lists > Bullet List.
44 Creating Lists Figure 41 The Bullet pop-up menu in the Lists palette Writing and Editing
Creating Documents 45 Insert an automatically incrementing list The remainder of the supplied list styles automatically increment each time you press <. • Headings Uses (European) Arabic numerals (1, 1.1, 1.1.1, etc.) to number and causes the numbers to appear at the far left (or right in right to left sections), i.e. along the margin. Designed to be used in conjunction with the Heading 1, etc. styles. This style (as supplied) continues numbering throughout the document.
46 Creating Lists Writing and Editing Automatic number formats supported in Nisus Writer Pro Every area where Nisus Writer Pro enables the use of automatic numbering (lists, footnotes/ endnotes, page numbers, section numbers, line numbers,) A wide variety of number formats are available.
Creating Documents 47 Create numbered lists that may have a component missing You may need to create a list that skips a level. For example, it may need to have a number like “3.2.0.a” or “3.2 a” when a component is missing (an item in level 4 without a corresponding entry in level 3). For the first example “3.2.0.a” you need to customize the tiered list style so that it starts numbering at 0 by default, instead of 1. 1. Switch to the stylesheet view. 2. From the list on the left, select your list style.
48 Creating Lists Writing and Editing Figure 44 List Styles explained Modify list styles You can modify list styles in the same way you modify any other styles in Nisus Writer Pro as explained in “Modify a style” on page 100. You can use any of the palettes to modify the font, size and style of the number.
Creating Documents 49 Figure 45 The List Style portion of the Style Sheet view (with the List’s palette) Use list styles to automatically number figures, tables, etc. In Nisus Writer Pro you can have as many automatically numbered items as you like. All you need do is create a new list style for each set of numbered objects (as in this document, which has “figures” and “tables” as well as numbered instructions). 1.
50 Creating Lists Writing and Editing Figure 47 Assigning text to appear before a numbered list style You can now cross-reference to these automatically numbered items as explained in “Add CrossReferences to Your Text” on page 221. You can also use the shapes tools of Nisus Writer Pro to add captions to floating images as explained in “Add a caption to your images” on page 170.
Creating Documents 51 Recovering From Mistakes Undo an action ▶ Choose the menu command Edit > Undo. You can undo an unlimited number of actions! Redo an action Choose the menu command Edit > Redo. Not only can you undo your previous actions, you can also redo them. Redo—the opposite of Undo—(believe it or not) undoes your undo. It puts your commands back into effect. You can continue redoing all the commands in the undo list until it is empty.
Creating Documents 53 Managing… Saving and Opening Your Files When the Macintosh was first released in 1984 you needed to save your files on 400K floppy disks. An old one-page plain text file would take up about 4K, so you might be able to store nearly 100 files on a single disk. Keeping track of a couple hundred files on a few floppy disks did not seem a hardship then.
54 Saving Files ! Managing… Saving and Opening Your Files If you try to save a file with Rich Text Formatting as Plain Text, Nisus Writer Pro alerts you with the dialog illustrated in Figure 49. Be sure you know what you want to do before you click. Figure 49 The discard document formatting warning • • ! as a Nisus Macro file. as a Nisus Perl Macro file.
Creating Documents 55 Save an untitled file as a Nisus Writer Pro file 1. Choose the menu command File > Save. 2. Type the document name in the Save document as box. 3. Choose the location in which you want to save the file. 4. Click Save. Nisus Writer Pro automatically chooses RTF as the preferred format for your file. Rename and save an existing file 1. 2. 3. 4. Choose the menu command File > Save As…. Enter the document’s new name in the Save document as box.
56 Managing Files Managing… Saving and Opening Your Files Figure 50 An empty, unused, Document Manager Figure 51 An empty, unused, iTunes The Document Manager can help you find and open a file you are working on in much same way as iTunes can help you find a song you want to listen to.
Creating Documents 57 Display the Document Manager ▶ Choose Document Manager from the Window menu. Figure 52 The Document Manager showing All Managed Files You can display and sort your files by a wide variety of categories. Initially, those available are • • • • • Icon (the icon represents simply the icon of the file as it appears in the Finder) File name Date Created (as illustrated in Figure 56) Date Modified Size You can resize the columns.
58 Managing Files Managing… Saving and Opening Your Files Figure 53 The Doc Manager preferences Set up the Document Manager using the Doc Manager preferences Determine the location of your Document Manager folder As illustrated in Figure 53, the “default” location of the Document Manager folder is the Nisus Documents folder inside the user’s Documents folder. You can set any location you want.
Creating Documents 59 Save all your files automatically to the Document Manager Perhaps the easiest is simply to use the Document Manager as a your default Save as location as explained in “Save files automatically in the Nisus Writer Pro Document Manager” on page 54. ▶ Set your Saving preferences to Keep new documents in Document Manager without asking me. Each and every file you create gets saved to the Document Manager unless you purposely and consciously save the file elsewhere.
60 Managing Files Managing… Saving and Opening Your Files Nisus Writer Pro moves the active file to the top level of the folder you have designated as your Document Manager folder. The Move to Document Manager command has a submenu. You can choose to move the file to the All Managed Files group or the Style Library or a Folder Group • Style Library This makes any styles in the moved file available to any other files. Maintaining a Style Library is explained in detail beginning on page 107.
Creating Documents 61 Figure 55 Moving a file to the Document Manager (after) Add your file to the Document Manager You may have a file in one or another folder on your hard drive. You can add an alias to this file into the Document Manager. The original continues to exist in its former location. ▶ Choose the menu command File > Add to Document Manager. ▶ Drag a file from any folder in the Finder into the Document Manager window.
62 Managing Files Managing… Saving and Opening Your Files Display and sort files managed by the Document Manager Once you have saved, moved and/or added your files to the Document Manager, you can display, sort and group them to make your files easier to find, open and edit. In addition to the categories you can sort by, listed in the section “Display the Document Manager” beginning on page 57, the Document Manager lists a set of default groups in its left pane, as illustrated in Figure 56.
Creating Documents • • 63 Templates Lists all the files you have saved to the Templates group, making any of those files available to open with all their existing content and attributes as Untitled. You can learn more about the Nisus New File and other template documents in the section “Understanding Template (Stationery) Documents” beginning on page 115.
64 Managing Files Add a Folder Group 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. ! ! Managing… Saving and Opening Your Files Choose the menu command Window > Document Manager. Click the + button in the lower left corner of the Document Manager window. In the dialog that appears, click Add Folder Group Click Choose… and navigate to and select the folder you want to add.
Creating Documents 65 Add a text based Filter Group Nisus Writer Pro enables you to create a variety of filter groups using various criteria. 1. Choose the menu command Window > Document Manager. 2. Click the + “plus” button in the lower left corner of the Document Manager window. 3. In the dialog that appears, click Add Filter Group. 4. Click Add Group. The Document Manager window changes to display additional Advanced Search criteria as illustrated in Figure 59.
66 Managing Files • • Managing… Saving and Opening Your Files Document Properties This is based on what you have entered in the dialog available when choosing the menu command File > Properties…. Anywhere The second pop-up menu offers: • • • Contains Contains Word Does Not Contain (works on any text search: file name, author, content, etc though only on Leopard, not Tiger) • Is Exactly • Starts With • Ends With 7. Enter the term you want to search for in the text field provided. 8.
Creating Documents 67 Figure 61 Adding a filter group using content criteria to the Document Manager Add a date based Filter Group ▶ Choose the menu command Window > Document Manager and follow steps 2 through 14. Use Figure 62 as a model. Figure 62 Adding a filter group using a date criterion to the Document Manager Remove a filter group from the Document Manager A time may come when you no longer need a particular filter group.
68 Managing Files 4. Managing… Saving and Opening Your Files An alert appears, illustrated in Figure 63, which asks if you are certain you want to remove the filter group: No files will be deleted from your hard drive; they will simply no longer be accessible through the removed Document Manager group. This operation is not undoable. Continue with caution and choose either Cancel or Remove.
Creating Documents 69 Figure 65 Editing the name of a group in the Document Manager Find a particular file or files among those listed in the Document Manager Once you have created a particular listing of files, you still might want to narrow the list further to find the precise file you need to open. ▶ Type the search term you need in the field in the upper right corner of the Document Manager window. Note, however that there are, even here, additional options available.
70 Managing Files Managing… Saving and Opening Your Files Figure 66 Searching in a filter group of the Document Manager for specific text See a preview of your file ▶ Select any file in the Nisus Writer Pro Document Manager. The first few lines of text appear in the pane at the bottom of the window If the file is a graphic file or a PDF, the preview displays the contents (or in the case of the PDF, the first page) of the file as illustrated in Figure 68.
Creating Documents ! 71 Note that the Document Manager displays the total number of files and the selected number of files in the upper left area above the file list as illustrated in Figure 67 along with the first few lines of text of the first of any selected documents. Figure 68 The Preview portion of the Document Manager with a graphic file selected and the contextual menu showing Open a file using the Document Manager 1. 2. Select any file in the Nisus Writer Pro Document Manager.
72 Managing Files • • • • • ! ▶ Rename a selected group or filter. if you select any particular group you can choose Show in Finder to display that folder in the Finder. if you select the All Managed Files group or the Style Library group you can Move Files to Group…. if you select the All Managed Files group or any group other than the Style Library group you can Add Files to Group…. if you select any particular group(s) you can Remove Group….
Formatting Documents This portion of the manual describes how to define the way your document looks.
74 Remove a character attribute from your text ............................... 105 Remove a style from your document ......................................... 106 Resolve conflicts between styles ...............................................
Creating Documents 75 Structuring Paragraphs This section describes the different ways you can define the appearance of paragraphs. When in page view, all paragraphs appear within the margins you set (outlined as the gray line around the area of the page). When in Draft View and Full Screen view, Nisus Writer Pro allows your text to run as far to the right of the document window as you wish. (For right-to-left languages text flows as far to the left as you wish.
76 Structuring Paragraphs Formatting Documents Figure 71 The First Line In/Outdent marker relative to the Tail Line Wrap Indicator (outdent or hanging indent) Quickly indent or outdent a selected range of paragraphs ▶ Select the range of paragraphs you wish to modify and click the Indent or Outdent button on the Toolbar or choose Increase Both Left Indents or Decrease Both Left Indents from the menu Format > Paragraph Indents.
Creating Documents 77 Set the text wrap area ▶ Drag the First Line Indent and/or the Right Indent marker across the ruler and release the mouse button or trackpad where you want the lines of your paragraph to wrap. Figure 74 The First Line Indent in various positions relative to the Left Indent marker You can drag the First Line Indent marker independently of the Left Indent marker.
78 Figure 78 The Text Wrap area Structuring Paragraphs Formatting Documents
Creating Documents 79 Set the text wrap area numerically 1. 2. Double click any of the indent markers. Enter the settings you want in the Edit Line Wraps and Indent dialog that opens. You can display the values either as they appear • • from the edge of the paper: choose Position on Ruler or from the margin: choose Inset from Margin.
80 Structuring Paragraphs Formatting Documents Figure 81 The Paragraph palette with Indents selected All of the indent controls are also available from the menu Format > Paragraph Indents. However, they use preset amounts to increase and decrease the indents. You can have better control using the Paragraph palette, or manipulating the ruler directly.
Creating Documents The following examples show how the different types of justification affect your text.
82 Structuring Paragraphs Formatting Documents Figure 86 Example of Full Justification (with show invisibles turned on) All of the alignment controls are also available from the menu Format > Paragraph. Set spacing between lines Line height, known to typesetters as leading (because of the pieces of lead placed between the lines of type) refers to the vertical distance between the top of one line and the top of the following line.
Creating Documents 83 Set spacing between paragraphs The space Before (above) paragraph “stepper” affects the space between the first line of the selected paragraph(s) and the last line of the preceding paragraph. Figure 88 Space Before (Above) Paragraph (with show invisibles turned on) Click the “steppers” to apply varying amounts of spacing you want between paragraphs or type the number of points appropriate in the text edit box to the left of each “stepper”.
84 Structuring Paragraphs Formatting Documents Control how paragraphs split and stick together If you use Nisus Writer Pro to put text on paper, you will probably want to make sure that the printed version of your file looks good. Among the concerns are whether headings remain with the paragraphs they introduce and other, similar issues.
Creating Documents 85 Set tabs Use tabs to align columns of text. Pressing @ lines up the text that follows at the next tab indicated above the ruler. Nisus Writer Pro offers four types of tabs you can place on the ruler. The tabs differ in the manner in which they align text. Automatic tabs appear every half inch after the last manually set tab. Preset tabs The Tab menu Figure 90 Preset tabs above the ruler (with show invisibles turned on) Set a tab visually 1. 2.
86 Structuring Paragraphs Formatting Documents Set a tab using the menus 1. 2. 3. Choose the menu command Format > Paragraph Indents > Add Tab Stop…. Choose the settings you want from the Edit Tab sheet that appears as illustrated in Figure 92. Click OK. Figure 92 The Edit Tab sheet Figure 93 Tab stop justification (with show invisibles turned on; with and without leader) Nisus Writer Pro places no limit to the number of tabs you can set on a ruler.
Creating Documents 87 either set a series of Tab Indicators as Leader Tabs or change a plain tab to a Leader Tab at a later time. ▶ Choose the menu command Tab > Leader and click on the ruler the same as with any other tab. Set the type of leader before placing a tab 1. 2. 3. Choose the menu command Tab > Default Leader Tab Settings…. Choose the kind of leader you want from the sheet that appears.
88 Structuring Paragraphs Formatting Documents Figure 95 Default Leader Tab underline pop-up menu 4. Click OK. Move a tab indicator using the mouse or trackpad Drag the Tab Indicator to its new location. You can select multiple Tab Indicators then move them simultaneously if you press 1 or A as you click the Tab Indicators. ▶ Nisus Writer Pro displays a vertical line to indicate where the tab will align the text. Move a tab indicator using the keyboard 1. 2.
Creating Documents 89 Remove a tab Indicator ▶ ▶ Drag the Tab Indicator off the ruler, or, select the ones you want to remove and press ⌫ (the delete key). Select multiple Tabs by pressing 1 or A as you click the tab, or select them all by pressing 4 as you click any tab. Choose the menu command Format > Paragraph Indents > Remove Tab Stops to remove all the tab stops controlling the selected paragraph(s).
90 Format Characters Formatting Documents Format Characters You can add font, size, and style characteristics to text. Nisus Writer Pro lists all the fonts you have that your version of the OS can display. These are generally in any of the following folders /Library/Fonts ~/Library/Fonts /Network/Library/Fonts /System/Library/Fonts and any fonts in the Classic System Folder/Fonts so long as they are not being managed by a Classic (pre OS X) font management tool.
Creating Documents 91 Change the font of characters ! Whenever you change the font of characters in your text from its underlying style as set in your Nisus New File or an applied style sheet, as explained in “Formatting Documents Using Style Sheets” on page 95, the , the Font/Character Attributes Tag appears on the Statusbar at the bottom of your document window. This is considered a “manual override” of the formatting of your document, as explained in detail on page 93. 1.
92 Format Characters Formatting Documents Figure 100 The Character palette showing the Font pop-up menu Nisus Writer Pro groups your fonts as they are organized in the Font Book application.
Creating Documents ! 93 You can set the size to decimal fractions as well as whole numbers. Increase or decrease the size of characters by a specific amount 1. 2. 3. 4. Select the text you want to have a different size. Choose Increase By… or Decrease By… from the menu Format > Size. Type the number for the amount you want the size to change. Click OK.
94 Format Characters Formatting Documents has some manual formatting applied, specifically an underline attribute. If you then choose Select All command from the Font Tag’s pop-up menu, all text in the document with a manual single underline attribute will be selected. But only text with manual underlines will be selected; if the underline was enforced via a Style, it would not be selected.
Creating Documents 95 Formatting Documents Using Style Sheets An introduction to Style Sheets Nisus Writer Pro has multiple ways of handling the various possible combinations of fonts, sizes, colors and paragraph formats, languages and other character attributes. While the vast majority of word processors allow you to define styles that apply to entire paragraphs, in Nisus Writer Pro you can also apply a collection of attributes to a single character.
96 Formatting Documents Using Style Sheets Formatting Documents Figure 102 The Styles palette enlarged with its menus showing formatted previews and without The styles present in the shipped Nisus New File consist of three types character level, paragraph level and note level styles. They appear in the Styles palette (except for the note styles) and in the menu sorted alphabetically by level. Many of these supplied styles use standard names and formatting common in HTML documents.
Creating Documents 97 • Table Cell Created by Nisus Writer Pro when you add a table to your document. The text and icons in the Styles palette display • • name of the style; • • the keyboard shortcut associated with that style (if any); whether it is a paragraph level or character level style; If the current selection consists of both a character level style and a paragraph level style both icons are highlighted. Clicking one or the other icon scrolls the list to display that style’s name.
98 Formatting Documents Using Style Sheets Formatting Documents Figure 104 The Style Sheet view The Style Sheet view lists all the styles of the document in a panel along the left side of the window (that you can hide or reveal) in alphabetical order grouped by Character Styles followed by Paragraph Styles and then Note Styles and, finally, List Styles. You can display all styles or a subset of them by clicking the chevron to the right of that section.
Creating Documents 99 Figure 105 The Normal style in Style Sheet view Beneath the sample text, in clearly readable “bubbles”, are all the attributes that make up that style. You can click to select and delete any of the attributes you do not want as part of the style. You can use the tools of the Character and Paragraph palettes (among others) to make the changes you want.
100 Formatting Documents Using Style Sheets • Paragraph attributes are always removed (for example); only one paragraph style can be associated with any string of text at one time • • • • • Formatting Documents line spacing (leading) paragraph spacing indents/outdents alignment Character attributes are removed only if the applied paragraph style defines a setting for that attribute (for example) • • • font color italics • List attributes are removed only if the applied paragraph style defines a se
Creating Documents 101 Heading 1 style is based on Normal. To distinguish it from Normal you only need to designate • • • • • • Bold Font Size 14 pt Font Lucida Grande Paragraph Spacing After 0 Paragraph Spacing Before 6 All other attributes will remain the same as those for Normal. Heading 2 style is based on Heading 1. To distinguish it from Heading 1 we only want to make it a bit smaller • • Font Size 13 pt All other attributes will remain the same as those for Heading 1.
102 Formatting Documents Using Style Sheets Formatting Documents Remove a keyboard shortcut to your style as you edit it 1. 2. Click your insertion point in the Shortcut field. Press the x key. Change the sample text that illustrates your style The right side of the Style Sheet view has a window with a string of text.
Creating Documents 103 Add or modify attributes associated with your style 1. 2. Click the name of the Style you want to modify in the panel on the left of the window. Make the changes you want using the appropriate menus or palettes. ! If you change your font family by typing the name of the font in the Character palette, you must press T to confirm your selection. ! You can add any of the Highlight colors to your Style by choosing the one you want from the Highlight button on the Toolbar.
104 Formatting Documents Using Style Sheets Formatting Documents Figure 109 The new paragraph style based on the selection 1. 2. Give the style a unique name. Modify the style’s attributes as explained in “Modify a style” on page 100. Select a range of text with a particular style You may have your insertion point in a string of text of a particular style and you want to assign a different style to that.
Creating Documents 105 Select All from the Character Level , Paragraph Level or List style tag on the Statusbar or ▶ Select All With Style from the Gear pop-up menu in the Styles palette. This selects all text in your document which shares that style.
106 Formatting Documents Using Style Sheets Formatting Documents Remove a style from your document You may have received a document with styles that do not match the way in which you do your work. You can remove all vestiges of that style from your document (both the style’s name and the fact that it is applied to text in your document). 1. Choose the menu command View > Style Sheet. 2. Click the name of the style you wish to remove.
Creating Documents 107 Figure 113 The Style conflict sheet As explained in the dialog sheet that appears, the options have these effects • Use Existing Styles The document’s existing styles will be used for the pasted text. • Add Pasted Styles The 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.
108 Formatting Documents Using Style Sheets Formatting Documents Create a style library Creating a style library is simple. There are a variety of methods. Figure 114 The Document Manager showing the Style Library windows with nothing in it Import styles from an existing file Open a document that has styles you want to add to a Style library. Choose the menu command View > Style Sheet.
Creating Documents 109 Figure 116 The Add styles to a new style collection sheet 6. Click Save. Figure 117 The Document Manager with a Style Collection and its associated styles ! Note that even though only Heading D was selected in the Styles List and saved to the Style Library, because it is “based on” Heading C which is based on Heading B, etc. all the based on styles are also added to the library.
110 Formatting Documents Using Style Sheets Formatting Documents Figure 118 Saving a file to the Style Library of the Document Manager The file and its styles appear in the Style Library portion of the Document Manager.
Creating Documents 111 Add styles to an existing Style Library file Once you have created a Style Collection in your Style Library, you can add styles to it. 1. Open a document that has styles you want to add to a style library. 2. Choose the menu command View > Style Sheet. 3. Select the style(s) you want to add to the Style Library from the list in the Styles pane on the left side of the document window. 4.
112 Formatting Documents Using Style Sheets Formatting Documents Figure 122 A Style Collection with added styles Your new styles appear in the selected Style Collection. Save specific styles from an existing file to a Style Collection You may already have created a document that has a collection of styles you want to add to your Style Library. 1. Open a document that has styles you want to add to a style library. 2.
Creating Documents 4. 113 Select the style collection to which you want to add the styles and click Save. Figure 124 Selecting a particular Style Collection to which to add styles Your styles are added to the collection and ready for you to use in additional documents as illustrated in Figure 125.
114 Formatting Documents Using Style Sheets Formatting Documents Use styles saved in a Style Library Once you have your Style Library set up you can easily take styles from it to use in different documents. Suppose that you are busy working on a new document that has a minimum number of styles in it. You come to a point where you realize that you need a style that you have saved to your style library.
Setting Up a Document’s Page This portion of the manual describes how to set up your document, using the options in the Preferences and the Page Setup dialog. Understanding Template (Stationery) Documents ................................. Make any file a template file .................................................... Set “defaults” for the application and new files .......................... Edit your Nisus New File .........................................................
116 Understanding Template (Stationery) Documents Setting Up a Document’s Page There are several tools for creating and modifying stationery (template) files. The first among these is the Nisus New File which is explained in detail on pages 120 - 123. Make any file a template file 1. 2. Choose the menu command File > Save As…. Choose Document Template from the File Format pop-up menu in the Save As dialog. Figure 126 Saving a file as a document template 3. 4. ! 5. Name the file what you want.
Creating Documents 117 set various Palette Editing Modes, the palettes or palette groups that are automatically associated with particular segments of the document, so that When the selection changes to: ▶ • • • • • • Main document body Table cells Headers or footers Images Shapes Styles in the Stylesheet view you can set Nisus Writer Pro to Take this action either: • • • • • ▶ Do nothing (don’t change the palettes) Switch to last palette group (use the palette group that was in use the last time the
118 Understanding Template (Stationery) Documents Setting Up a Document’s Page ▶ ▶ ▶ ▶ • • • • Do nothing • • • Do nothing • • • Always ask me what to do (the default) Show Document Manager Reopen previously open documents Reopen previously open documents and show Document Manager what happens On application activation: (when you have been using a different application but Nisus Writer Pro has been running in the background and you switch from the other application into Nisus Writer Pro).
Creating Documents ▶ ▶ 119 Turn on or off “Show Paragraph Formatting Icons” to have Nisus Writer Pro display the icons explained in The Nisus Writer Pro rulers on page 11 (or not). Turn on or off “Check Spelling as You Type” to have Nisus Writer Pro add the squiggly red line under misspelled words (or not).
120 Understanding Template (Stationery) Documents Setting Up a Document’s Page Click Color to open and choose a color from the Colors panel as illustrated in Figure 132 below. Figure 132 The Colors panel ▶ ! Click the alignment and enter the values you want for line and paragraph spacing in the area provided. All New documents will have the formatting you set in this preference.
Creating Documents 121 Figure 133 The Advanced portion of the New File preferences pane showing default locations of the Nisus New File and Plain Text Template You can add a wide variety of information to your Nisus New File. For an example of what you might consider see “Using Automatic Numbers, Date & Time Variables and Document Properties in Headers and Footers” on page 143.
122 Understanding Template (Stationery) Documents Setting Up a Document’s Page Figure 134 Location of the Nisus New File in the Finder Use an existing file as a Nisus New File When you choose the menu command File > New, Nisus Writer Pro looks for a template document called “Nisus New File.dot” in the Nisus Writer folder inside the Application Support folder which is in the Library folder of your User folder. If it is found, it will be opened and named Untitled.
Creating Documents 123 Create a Nisus New File You can create any file you like and save it as your Nisus New File. The Nisus New File is a special case of a template or stationery file. The Nisus New File is the file that Nisus Writer Pro opens when you choose the menu command File > New. The easiest way to “create” a new Nisus New File is to edit the existing Nisus New File as explained in “Edit your Nisus New File” on page 120. However, you can also use the following procedure. 1.
124 Setting Paper Size and Margins Setting Up a Document’s Page Setting Paper Size and Margins While an increasing amount of documents are distributed electronically, without paper, and read on screen, periodically you may need to commit your document to paper. The dimensions of your paper are determined in the Page Setup dialog and the margins of the document within the limits of that page are determined on a “per section” basis using the tools of Nisus Writer Pro.
Creating Documents ! 125 As a convenience Nisus Writer Pro will at first pick up the paper size set in this preference. If you want to customize the paper size of new documents, you should edit your Nisus New File as explained in “Edit your Nisus New File” on page 120. In either case you set the paper size in the Page Setup dialog illustrated in Figure 138.
126 Setting Paper Size and Margins Setting Up a Document’s Page Figure 141 The Multiple Sections Page Setup sheet Your choices are: • • • Selected Sections This refers to as many or few sections in which your insertion point appears. All Sections This refers to all the sections of your document whether or not your insertion point appears there. Cancel This gives you a chance to return to your document and reflect on your options.
Creating Documents 127 Set the margins of the sections of your document You can set the margins of your each separate section of your Nisus Writer Pro document in a variety of ways visually, numerically or by “stepping” through pre-set increments. ! All controls of your margins are set on a per-section basis.
128 Setting Paper Size and Margins Setting Up a Document’s Page Figure 144 The Margins palette showing the margins for the shipped Nisus New File • The terms Inner and Outer refer to the edge of the paper closest to the binding and to the outer edge (if there would be a binding). • The terms Top and Bottom refer to the margins of the body of the document, that is the distance from the actual top or bottom of the page, independent of the header or footer (if they should appear).
Creating Documents 129 Set the margins by “stepping” through pre-set increments You can change the location of the margins by clicking the “steppers” in the Margins palette of Nisus Writer Pro. Because you make these changes numerically, but by increments, you might want to have your document displayed in Page View before you proceed so you can see the result. 1.
130 Set the Number of Columns Setting Up a Document’s Page Set the Number of Columns Nisus Writer Pro can display your text in columns. All of Nisus Writer Pro’ columns are what are known as “snaking columns.” This means that the column text continues from the bottom of one column to the top of the next (i.e. not “independent”). Columns are set on a per-section basis. The Nisus New File is a one-column document. Each section of a document can have only one column format.
Creating Documents 131 Figure 148 Column text balanced ! The gutter controlled is that to the right of the column indicated in the palette. So, in the document illustrated in Figure 148 above the .25 inch gutter refers to the space between the second and third columns. Balance column text Nisus Writer Pro can balance the amount of text in the columns of the last page of your document as illustrated in Figure 148 above. 1. Open the Columns palette. 2. Click Balance Column Text.
132 Set the Number of Columns Setting Up a Document’s Page Figure 149 The Page Borders palette Determine around which portion of the page’s perimeter the border appears • • • Page Edge illustrated in Figure 150 Text Margin illustrated in Figure 151 Header Margin illustrated in Figure 152 Set the distance from the edge or margin the border should appear In addition, you can set the distance the border appears from the edge or margin chosen by clicking the stepper at the bottom of the palette or enterin
Creating Documents Figure 151 Page Border set at Text Margin Figure 152 Page Border set at Header Margin 133
Headers and Footers This portion of the manual contains step-by-step instructions that explain how to include headers and footers in your document, and how to use automatic numbering to display page numbers in your documents. These sections include Creating Headers and Footers ............................................................ Insert the same header and/or footer for all pages ....................... Insert a header and/or a footer for even numbered pages ............
136 Creating Headers and Footers Headers and Footers Insert the same header and/or footer for all pages 1. 1. Click your insertion point in the Click for Header/Footer areas of the Nisus Writer Pro window. Whenever you click inside a header or footer area, Nisus Writer Pro automatically opens the Header/Footer palette. Enter the contents of the header or footer in the window or choose appropriate variables such as page and/or section numbers from the menu Insert > Automatic Number.
Creating Documents 137 Figure 155 The Header/Footer palette 1. Use the various tools available in the Tooldrawer to position the contents of the header or footer. Figure 156 The Header area of the Nisus Writer Pro window activated with the Tooldrawer open Insert a header and/or a footer for even numbered pages 1. 2. 3. 4.
138 Creating Headers and Footers Headers and Footers Insert a header and/or footer for odd numbered pages 1. 2. 3. 4. If you have not already prepared your document for “reflected margins” as explained in “Mirror page placement” on page 129, open the Tooldrawer and select the Sections palette group from the icons at the top, or, choose the menu command Window > Palettes > Headers and Footers as explained in “Set the margins numerically” on 127. Click Odd & Even Pages.
Creating Documents 139 Find the header or footer for a particular section of your document You can easily move your insertion point to the header or footer of the current section of your document. ▶ Choose Go to Header or Go to Footer from the View menu. This method is especially useful if your document is in Draft View. Nisus Writer Pro will automatically switch to Page View and activate the header or footer area. ! Include images in a header or footer 1. 2. 3. 4. Click in the header or footer.
140 Deleting Headers and Footers Headers and Footers Figure 158 Moving the inner edge of the footer margin 3. Click back into the document. Deleting Headers and Footers You cannot completely delete a header or footer. You can, however, hide them. Hide headers and footers 1. 2. ! Click your insertion point inside the header or footer for the section of which you do not want them (the headers and/or footers) to appear. The Header/Footer palette opens.
Creating Documents 141 Numbering Pages When in Page View, Nisus Writer Pro keeps track of the page numbers of your documents and displays them (the “current” out of the “total”) in the left edge of the Statusbar. Figure 159 Page number display and its menu Nisus Writer Pro also provides customizable tools for automatically numbering objects. The most common form is page numbering. You will find these automatic numbering features in the menu Insert > Automatic Number.
142 Numbering Pages Headers and Footers Restart page numbering for a new section 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 1. 2. Choose either Next Page, Odd Page, Even Page or Same Page from the menu Insert > Section Break. Make sure your insertion point is in the new section. Open the Section palette. Click the Page tab in the Section palette. Click Restart At and choose the numbering format you want from the Format pop-up menu in the Section palette.
Creating Documents 143 Determine the format of page numbers Nisus Writer Pro enables you to display the section and/or page numbers of your document in a wide variety of formats (these are maintained throughout the document , even though you may have section breaks). 1. Open the Section palette. 2. Put your insertion point in the section of your document where you want to change the format of the automatic number. 3.
144 Numbering Pages • Headers and Footers Information Stamps (such as those items inserted into your document using the Date and Time and Document Property submenus of the Insert menu) can be set to update either: • • • • Immediately Sooner As Performance Allows When Printing / Saving PDF Figure 162 The Automatic Content Update Preferences dialog The more often Nisus Writer Pro updates this information, the more time it spends on these tasks instead of paying attention to your keystrokes and/or editin
Creating Documents Figure 163 Date & Time Variables and Document Properties in headers and footers Figure 164 Date & Time Variables and Document Properties in headers and footers filled in Figure 165 “Stale” cross-references and other automatic content displaying their borders 145
Graphics: Images and Shapes This portion of the manual shows you how to work with graphic images and shapes. The sections include Working with Various Types of Graphics ............................................. 148 Importing Images ............................................................................. 149 Resize an Image ............................................................................... 151 Crop an Image ...............................................................................
148 Graphics: Images and Shapes Working with Various Types of Graphics Nisus Writer Pro handles two kinds of graphic images: those that flow along with a line of text we call “inline”. Other images, while attached to a particular paragraph, float independently are called “floating”. In addition you can create various shapes, from lines and arrows to complex geometric forms and (linked) text boxes that can float with your text.
Creating Documents 149 Floating images Any image you can display in your document you can cause to float so that it appears above, behind, or alongside the text. You can also have the text wrap around the image in various ways.
150 Importing Images Graphics: Images and Shapes Figure 167 The Image… variant of the Open dialog with Link to File checked 4. ! ! Check Include copy of Image in document to store image data itself in the Nisus Writer Pro file which is used as a backup. Checking Include copy of image in document creates a larger Nisus Writer Pro file. If you uncheck!Include copy of image in document, the Nisus Writer Pro rtf file stores only the original image’s file path.
Creating Documents 151 Resize an Image 1. ! Select the image by clicking on it. When you have Show Invisibles turned on (as explained on 372), your images display a perimeter box the color of your invisibles. When you select the image, the box disappears and is replaced by the selection lines with handles inside the corners. If you make the image a floating image, the handles appear outside the corners. These variations are illustrated in Figure 168.
152 Crop an Image Graphics: Images and Shapes Crop an Image 1. 2. Select the image by clicking on it. Drag any of the four perimeter lines connecting the corner resize handles that appear so that the image acquires the size and shape you want.
Creating Documents Edit an Image As mentioned in “Importing Images” above, if you check Link to File when you insert an image, Nisus Writer Pro can display an updated version of the image whenever it has been updated and saved to disk. 1. Double-click the image in your Nisus Writer Pro document as illustrated in Figure 171. 2. Edit your image in the application that opens it as illustrated in Figure 172. 3.
154 Edit an Image Graphics: Images and Shapes Figure 172 Editing a “Linked to file” image in Preview.app Figure 173 The updated Linked to file image in the Nisus Writer Pro document Adjust the opacity of an image You can adjust the opacity of any inline or floating image in Nisus Writer Pro. 1. Select the image or images you want to adjust. 2. In the Shape Fill palette, drag the Opacity slider or enter the percentage of opacity you want as explained on page 178.
Creating Documents 155 Working with Floating Images You can change any inline image so that it “floats” with the text. You can make text wrap around floating images, or you can make text appear in front of or behind them. You can fix a floating image to stay on a particular place on a specific page, or you can make them move with a paragraph. ! Floating images only appear when in Page View and only in the main portion of your document’s text: not in footnotes, endnotes, headers, footers, nor comments.
156 Working with Floating Images Graphics: Images and Shapes Using the Shape Wrap palette You can make any inline image into a floating image. When you do this, an entire range of additional tools become available. Make an inline image into a floating image 1. Click the image to select it. If the Tooldrawer is open, the drawing tools palette group appears. Figure 175 The Shape Wrap palette default options when set to Position on page of ¶ Choose either Moves with paragraph or Position on page of ¶.
Creating Documents 157 The Shape Anchor Figure 177 A selected floating image selected showing its anchor When you select a floating image its “anchor” appears in the upper left corner, overlaying the first character(s) of the paragraph to which it is attached, as illustrated in Figure 177. If the floating image is attached to a right to left paragraph the anchor appears in a corresponding position in the upper right corner.
158 Working with Floating Images Graphics: Images and Shapes • If you check (turn on) Adjust Anchor When Shape Repositioned, the shape’s anchor will be automatically moved whenever you move the shape to a different paragraph. This is illustrated and it affect on how you work with your document in “Select floating shapes without selecting text” on page 175. • If you have resized or reshaped the image you can also choose to Restore Original Size and Restore Original Proportions respectively.
Creating Documents 159 Figure 180 The Shape Bounding Box with shapes selected and text wrapped around the bounding box, wherever it is transparent, then text behind shape Align a floating image You can nudge a selected floating image one pixel at a time, using the arrow keys on the keyboard, so that it appears where you want it. You can also align floating images horizontally and vertically.
160 Working with Floating Images Graphics: Images and Shapes Cause text to wrap around an image You can have text wrap around a floating image. 1. Select the image around which you want the text to wrap. 2. Click the Text wrap option that represents what you want from the buttons in the Shape Wrap palette as explained in Table 5.
Creating Documents 161 The Bounding Box of lines • As with all other shapes, a line has a bounding box as explained in “The Shape Bounding Box” on page 158. However, the bounding box does not draw if you set the text to wrap around the actual shape of the image as illustrated in Figure 181.
162 Working with Floating Images Graphics: Images and Shapes Figure 182 Star shape settings from left to right: box wrap and no padding, box wrap and 22 pts padding, wrap tight and no padding, wrap tight and 22 pts padding Cause text to appear on top of, or behind an image If you choose to have the text placement not affected by the floating image, you can have the text display on top of (over) or behind (hidden) by the image.
Creating Documents 1. 2. 163 Enter the text with the attributes you want (especially the ruler (line wrap) area). Make sure you have left room around the text for the image. You may need to have a blank paragraph above the text to which to attach the image. Paste the image into the paragraph above the text. Use the settings as illustrated in Figure 185 to place the image correctly. Figure 185 The Shape Wrap palette with settings for a “screen” behind text 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
164 Working with Floating Images Graphics: Images and Shapes Figure 186 The move shape from floating to inline alert The images will appear in the paragraphs to which they were anchored as illustrated in Figure 187.
Creating Documents 165 Working with Shapes You can create a wide variety of shapes to highlight and/or illustrate aspects of your document. Inserting shapes You can place a shape in your document by any of the following methods (in this context, a “text box” is a shape). Add a shape to your document Nisus Writer Pro supports three kinds of shapes. These are illustrated in the various Shapes menus themselves, as is seen in Figure 191 on page 167.
166 Working with Shapes • • • ! • Graphics: Images and Shapes you enter a special mode and cannot enter text in the normal text area of your document a banner appears across the top of your document instructing you to “Click and drag to draw the new shape.” a banner appears across the bottom of your document instructing you to “Press the escape key (ESC) to cancel.” Undoing and redoing are disabled. Once you draw the new shape it is selected in your document and ready for you to manipulate.
Creating Documents 167 Add a text or callout box to your document 1. Choose either: • • • • • Text Box Callout Callout, Accent Edge Callout, Speech Box Callout, Rounded Speech Box from the menu Tools > Insert Shape or the Text Box button on the Toolbar, or the Text Box button in the Draw floating shape portion of the Shapes palette. Figure 191 The Text Box menu as it appears from the Text Box button on the Shapes palette The box appears ready for you to enter text as illustrated in Figure 192.
168 Working with Shapes Graphics: Images and Shapes Figure 193 Text and Callout Boxes 3. You have two alternatives: Click the Expand button to enlarge the Text or Callout Box. or: a. Create a new Text or Callout Box. b. Click the Link button in the first box. Nisus Writer Pro displays a banner across the top of the document as illustrated in Figure 194: Click the destination text box where text should flow.
Creating Documents 169 Figure 195 Linked text boxes with altered ruler and font When you link the Text or Callout Boxes a “flow arrow” appears from the first Text or Callout Box to each succeeding box containing linked text when any of text boxes are selected as illustrated in Figure 195. The arrows appear in the color set for the Invisibles that display when you choose the menu command View > Show Invisibles. You can set this color in the Appearance preferences as explained on page 372.
170 Working with Shapes Graphics: Images and Shapes Figure 196 Using linked Text Boxes to create a document with a form of marginalia Add a caption to your images Nisus Writer Pro has always had the ability to add automatically incrementing numbered captions to figures consisting of inline images. This procedure is explained in “Use list styles to automatically number figures, tables, etc.” on page 49. You can add captions to floating images as well. 1.
Creating Documents 171 Figure 197 The inline image of Figure 166 on page 148 with a caption added Drawing lines and arrows You can draw a variety of lines and/or arrows in your document. 1. Choose any one of the arrows available from the arrows and lines portion of the menu Tools > Insert Shape illustrated in Figure 198. Figure 198 The Lines menu as it appears from the Lines button on the Shapes palette 2. Click and drag where you want the line or arrow to appear. a.
172 Working with Shapes Graphics: Images and Shapes and a ball on the lower. While you might have considered editing your image in Preview.app as illustrated in Figure 172 on page 154, Nisus Writer Pro likely has the tools you need. Figure 199 The Shape Stroke palette Make a line into an arrow, or an arrow into a line You can transform any line into a single or double-headed arrow (or the reverse). Choose from the various arrowheads available at the bottom of the Shape Stroke palette.
Creating Documents 173 Geometric type shapes Nisus Writer Pro can create a variety of geometrical and quasi geometrical shapes in your document. Enter a shape in your document You create a shape in your document using essentially the same method as explained for entering a Text or Callout Box or a line or arrow. Figure 201 The Shapes menu as it appears from the Shapes button on the Shapes palette 1. ! 2. ! 3.
174 Working with Shapes Graphics: Images and Shapes The pointer changes to a cross hair when over the handles and the margin mover or when over the perimeter lines. As you change the shape’s size the four resize handles are hidden. ! ! 4. If you resize the shape, you can press 1 when you continue, the shape's current proportions will always be maintained.
Creating Documents 175 • a banner appears across the bottom of your document instructing you to “Press the escape key (ESC) to cancel.” You can also click the same button to exit the mode. • Bring selected floating shapes to the front. This is the same as choosing the menu command Tools > Shapes > Bring to Front.
176 Working with Shapes Graphics: Images and Shapes Figure 202 Sequence of shapes in multiple paragraphs each shape anchored to the paragraph in which it appears Figure 203 Sequence of shapes in multiple paragraphs each shape anchored to the paragraph in which it appears in Figure 202 ▶ ▶ ▶ ▶ Click the Enter floating shape selection mode button from the Tools section of the Shapes palette. Choose the menu command Tools > Shapes > Enter Shape Selection Mode.
Creating Documents • • 177 All shapes anchored to “paragraph one” come those before those anchored to “paragraph two,” regardless of the shapes’ visible position to one another. With those shapes that are all anchored to the same paragraph, the highest shape, in its vertical distance from the top of the page, is first. This is illustrated in In Figure 204 and the explanation following it.
178 Working with Shapes Graphics: Images and Shapes If you have multiple shapes selected and send them to the back their relative stacking order is maintained. Cause selected objects to function as a single unit 1. 2. Select two or more shapes and/or images. Choose the menu command Tools > Shapes > Group Shapes or click the Group button in the Tools portion of the Shapes palette. This groups the selected objects to be affected as if they move as a unit. A group is like any other shape.
Creating Documents 179 Figure 205 The Shape Fill palette Using the Shape Shadow palette Every shape can have a shadow, as illustrated in Figure 204 on page 177 using the Shape Shadow palette illustrated in Figure 206. Figure 206 The Shape Shadow palette 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Select the shape(s) you want to have a shadow. Check (turn on) Shadow in the Shape Shadow palette. Click the color swatch to open the Colors panel if you want a shadow in a color other than black.
180 Working with Shapes Graphics: Images and Shapes Using the Shape Metrics palette You can determine the precise size and location of your shapes using the Shape Metrics palette illustrated in Figure 207. Figure 207 The Shape Metrics palette with the Left and Right dimensions linked and highlighted Shapes Metrics palette link buttons Width Link button Height Link button Off Off On On Aspect Ratio Link button Off On Table 7 The Shape Metrics palette link buttons 1. 2. 3.
Creating Documents 181 Figure 208 A selected floating image beyond the margin Resize selected shapes by precise, designated amounts 1. 2. Select the shape(s) you want to change. Use the steppers or enter a value using the keyboard to alter the Width and/or Height of the selected shape(s). a. Click (turn off) to un-link the Width and Height controls so that changing the value for one does not alter the other. This enables the shape to change its proportion (from the upper left corner).
182 Working with Shapes Graphics: Images and Shapes Figure 209 The Adjustment Settings dialog The Canvas Nisus Writer Pro also lets you insert a “Canvas”, which enables you to work on a number of shapes together, unencumbered by your text. Working with a Canvas 1. Choose the menu command Tools > Insert Shape > Canvas. a banner appears across the top of your document instructing you to “Click and drag to draw the new shape.
Creating Documents 183 Figure 210 A Canvas ready for shapes Figure 211 The Paste Spot 6. ! ! Any shape you draw on top of a Canvas using various tools explained in this section will automatically be captured inside the Canvas. A Canvas can contain Text or Callout Boxes, lines and arrows, geometrical shapes and pasted images. You cannot group or ungroup objects inside a Canvas.
184 Working with Shapes Graphics: Images and Shapes Figure 212 Selected shape determines appearance of inserted shape You may decide that you want to use a particular shape’s appearance as the standard for a number of future shapes. 1. Select the shape with desired appearance. 2. Choose Use Selected Shape Appearance As Default from the Insert Shape or Shapes submenus of the Tools menu. You can change this at any time using the same method.
Creating Documents 185 Figure 213 A shape ready to duplicate 2. 3. 4. 5. Determine how many Total Rows and Total Columns you want from the Duplication portion of the sheet. You can use the steppers or type or paste in the number you want. In the Expansion portion of the sheet, determine the direction: either to the lower right (the default), lower left, upper left, or upper right. Set the Spacing between duplicates.
Book Tools Nisus Writer Pro supplies some special tools for creating larger, more complex documents. These include the ability to separate the document into various sections, and the use of certain variables, footnotes, and tables. Creating Sections in Your Document .................................................. Numbering Sections ......................................................................... Footnotes and Endnotes ....................................................................
188 Footnotes and Endnotes Edit an automatically named bookmark .................................... Jump to Bookmarked Text ........................................................ View bookmarks in alphabetical order ...................................... View bookmarks according to their location in the document ..... Move a Bookmark ................................................................... Remove a Bookmark ...............................................................
Creating Documents 189 Determine the characters that separate page numbers in the index ............................................................................................. 247 Have all sub-levels of the index appear on the same line (space permitting) ............................................................................................. 247 Set the paragraph style associated with each level of the index .... 247 Modify the appearance of the text in the index ..........................
190 Footnotes and Endnotes Book Tools Footnotes and Endnotes Use footnotes and/or endnotes to refer readers to reference notes. Nisus Writer Pro automatically renumbers footnotes and endnotes when you add, move, or delete them. Footnotes appear at the bottom “foot” of the page on which you insert them. Endnotes appear at the end of the document. Insert a footnote or endnote 1. 2. 3. ! Put the insertion point where you want the footnote number to appear. Choose Footnote or Endnote from the Insert menu.
Creating Documents 191 Figure 215 The Notes Reference Styles area of the Style Sheet In this portion of the Style Sheet view, you can control the • • Style on which the notes text are “Based on”; Keyboard shortcut used to apply the Style. Use an asterisk or other custom symbol to mark several footnotes and or endnotes In addition to using numbers sequentially for footnotes and endnotes, you can use an asterisk or other custom character to mark several or all footnotes or endnotes with the same symbol.
192 Footnotes and Endnotes Book Tools Edit a custom symbol that marks footnotes and or endnotes You can change the symbol you have used at any time 1. Select the note reference(s) in the body of the document. Use non-contiguous selection to select a range of text and affect number of notes at once. 2. Click and hold your mouse or trackpad on the Footnote tag on the Statusbar. 3. Choose Edit Custom Note Reference… from the pop-up menu as illustrated in Figure 216 above. 4.
Creating Documents 193 • the Number Format illustrated in Automatic number formats supported in Nisus Writer Pro on page 46; • the Number Restart: whether the Notes restart on each page, each section or are continuously numbered; the Doc Reference Style: the character style that is automatically applied to note references when they appear in the main document; the Note Reference Style: the character style that is automatically applied to note references when they appear in the note area; the Default Not
194 Footnotes and Endnotes Book Tools Continue footnote or endnote numbering across consecutive files Suppose you have a document that is more than 1000 pages long. For the sake of facilitating use, you have decided to break the text up into several files. You can have your footnotes and/or endnotes continue numbering from one section to the next, or, restart at any assigned page number using any footnote or endnote number you want.
Creating Documents 195 Tables What is a table? A table is a means of presenting a group of related data in a coherent, structured form. Tables are used to • • • • • summarize large amounts of data compare data for two or more cases group complex data so that relationships are clear convey statistics about the underlying data list a full matrix of related data. Tables have a wide variety of uses and, because of the divergent uses, they may take on many different styles as well.
196 Tables Book Tools Insert/create a table 1. 2. Put your insertion point where you want the table to appear. Either click the Insert Table button on the Toolbar Figure 220 The Insert Table button ▶ Or, Choose the menu command Table > New Table…. When you insert a table Nisus Writer Pro creates a new style in your document (if one does not already exist in your Nisus New File) called Table Cell.
Creating Documents 4. 197 When you are satisfied with the size (and shape) of the table, release your mouse button or trackpad. Figure 222 Creating a table from the Insert Table button ! In right to left documents or sections of documents, the primary tools relevant to tables appear for right to left editing. Figure 223 A right to left table You can add or subtract rows and/or columns at any time once you have inserted the table as explained on page 201.
198 Tables Book Tools Table Palette Buttons Table Alignment left center right Table 10 A table with images Navigate among the cells of a table When you edit text inside a table cell, you can use the keyboard to move your insertion point • • • ! The , and . keys move the insertion point into the cells on the left and right respectively. The + and - arrow keys move the insertion point into the cells above and below respectively Press @ to move the insertion point into the next cell.
Creating Documents 199 Click the alignment you wish to have using the appropriate button in the Table palette. Choose the appropriate alignment (Align Left, Center or Align Right) from the Table menu. ▶ ▶ Figure 224 The Table palette indicating the table alignment options with left selected and center and right beside it Determine the alignment (position) of text in a table Text and images in the cells of a table can be aligned both horizontally and vertically.
200 Tables Book Tools Align text in table cells along the decimal point Numbers often need to be aligned along a decimal point. ! You would probably want to follow this procedure with Invisibles turned on (choose the menu command View > Show Invisibles). 1. Create your table. 2. Click your insertion point in the top cell of the column to be aligned by the decimal point. 3. Make sure the Ruler displays and choose the menu command Tab > Decimal. 4.
Creating Documents 201 Add cells to a table If, as you work on your table, you determine that you need additional cells, either as rows or columns, you can add them at any time. ▶ Click your insertion point in the cell beside which you want to add cells and click the appropriate button in the Table palette.
202 Tables Book Tools Figure 228 The Merge Cells button on the Table Cells palette ▶ ! Or Select the cells you wish to merge and choose the menu command Table > Merge Cells. The illustrations that follow may not represent anything you would want to do, but, they are here to indicate simply what does happen. The text here is from The Frozen Logger by James Stevens (long out of copyright)
Creating Documents 203 Split cells Merging cells merges all selected cells into one, splitting cells offers a variety of options. Figure 231 The split cells sheet ▶ Put your insertion point inside the cell you wish to split (or select the cells (rows or columns) you wish to split) and click the Split Cells button on the Table Cells palette.
204 Tables Book Tools Resize a cell You can make a table smaller than is useful ! Or make a table span multiple pages. The tiny “one-celled” table in the sentence following “Resize a cell” above cannot be used for anything. You can resize any cell in a Nisus Writer Pro table. 1. Place the pointer over the line you want to adjust. Your pointer will change from an I-beam to a line with arrows pointing in opposite directions. 2.
Creating Documents 205 Figure 234 Expanding the height of a cell in a table ! The way in which you align your table determines the way in which cells expand and contract horizontally. • • • The cells of left aligned tables expand to the right. The cells of right aligned tables expand to the left. The cells of center aligned tables expand from the center out. Equalize column widths You may have a variety of cells of varying widths, to equalize them: 1. Select the cells you wish to equalize. 2.
206 Tables Book Tools Figure 237 A table with a wide cell due to a longer word (notice the words “common” and “but”) Figure 238 The same table with cell widths equalized (notice the word “common”) ! To Equalize cells in which you have text that should not wrap (as in the illustrations Figure 237 and Figure 238 above), use the Fit to Contents tool as explained in “Cause the table to resize to fit its contents (and settings)” on page 207.
Creating Documents 207 I As sat within down one evening a small café, A forty year old waitress to me these words did say: I see that are a logger, and not just a common bum, ’Cause nobody but a logger stirs his with his thumb.” you coffee Table 14 Table 13 above with cells heights distributed evenly Cause the table to resize to fit its contents (and settings) You can resize any column to have its contents fit the cells by dragging the appropriate line.
208 Tables Book Tools Cause the table to resize to fit the full extent of the page You can cause the table and its contents to resize to fit the width of the page. 1. Click anywhere in the table to activate it. 2. Click the Fit to Page button on the Table Cells palette or choose the menu command Table > Fit to Page. Figure 240 Result of choosing Fit to Page As with Fit to Contents, Fit to Page does not affect the height of rows unless it causes some wrapped text to “unwrap”.
Creating Documents 209 Create a title for a table A column header at the top of your table makes a perfect location for a table title. 1. Create a “column header” as explained above. 2. Merge the cells. 3. Set the area off with some border or color. Frozen Logger The by James Stevens As within A to I and ’Cause stirs I sat forty me see not nobody his year these that just down a old words are a but with you coffee one small waitress did a common a his evening café, say: logger, bum, logger thumb.
210 Tables Book Tools Adjust the padding around the contents of a cell You may want a certain minimum of space between the contents of a cell and the lines that define that cell. 1. Put your insertion point in the cell you want to modify. 2. Click the Padding “stepper” to increase or decrease the amount of padding. or 3. Select the contents of the Padding field. 4. Enter the value you want. 5. Press T to confirm your choice.
Creating Documents 211 Clear the selection of lines to modify ▶ Click the Deselect All button. Figure 242 The Deselect All button ▶ Use the button in the upper left of the Table Cell Borders palette to clear all selected buttons. Figure 243 The Table Cell Borders palette Select which lines to modify 1. 2. Put your insertion point in the cell (or select the cells) you want to modify. Click to select the buttons of the lines you wish to modify.
212 Tables Book Tools Determine the thickness of the lines 1. 2. 3. Put your insertion point in the cell (or select the cells) you want to modify. Click to select the buttons of the lines you wish to modify. Choose the thickness you want from the Thickness pop-up menu of the Table Cell Borders palette You can choose between None, Hairline, 1/2 pt (point), 3/4 pt up to 8 pt thick lines.
Creating Documents 213 Determine the color of the lines 1. 2. 3. Put your insertion point in the cell (or select the cells) you want to modify. Click to select the buttons of the lines you wish to modify. Click the Color Picker tool and choose a color from the Colors panel as illustrated in Figure 132 on page 120. Figure 246 The Color Picker tool of the Table Cell Borders palette Set the shading (color) of cells Every cell can have its own shading, style and/or color.
214 Tables Book Tools Figure 248 The Pattern menu of the Table Cells Shading palette (in three parts) set for the bottom row, fourth column of Table 21 above (“More”) Set the color of the foreground and background of a cell pattern Every pattern has a foreground and a background. You can choose the color of each of these. 1. Put your insertion point in the cell (or select the cells) you want to modify. 2. Choose the Pattern you want.
Creating Documents 215 Remove a table Nisus Writer Pro supports a variety of methods for removing a table from your document. You can use the keyboard, or the mouse or trackpad with the menus. These are described in Table 23 below. To Delete a Table Using the menus Using the Keyboard Step 1 Step 2 Click anywhere in the table. Choose Table from the Delete submenu of the Table menu Put your insertion point immediately following the table. Put your insertion point immediately in front of the table.
Creating Documents 217 Working with Bookmarks and Cross-references Use bookmarks in your document as you would use a bookmark for quick access to a specific page in a book or a location on the World Wide Web. You can also use bookmarks to insert “See also” cross-references in your document which Nisus Writer Pro keeps current for you. Set a Bookmark Select the text you want to mark.
218 Working with Bookmarks and Cross-references Book Tools Appearance preferences of Nisus Writer Pro as explained in “Set the font used in the Navigator pane” on page 377. ! You can select a range of bookmarks in the Navigator and copy them for use in any document. Edit an automatically named bookmark 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Place your insertion point at least one character in from either the end or the beginning of the bookmarked text. Add whatever text you want to add to the marked text.
Creating Documents 219 Figure 251 Renaming a bookmark 5. Click Rename Bookmark. Your bookmark appears, renamed in the Navigator window.
220 Working with Bookmarks and Cross-references Book Tools Jump to Bookmarked Text 1. Be sure that the Navigator is showing. Choose either the menu command View > Navigator > Show Navigator or Insert > Bookmarks > Show Bookmarks in Navigator. Click the bookmark name in the Navigator. If the Navigator pane is already open, displaying the Table of Contents, you can choose the menu command Gear > Show Bookmarks at the bottom of the pane.
Creating Documents 221 Move a Bookmark Select and cut the bookmarked text. Paste the passage in another part of the document. You can even paste bookmarked text into another document making the marker available in the second document. 1. 2. Remove a Bookmark Select any portion of the bookmarked text Choose the menu command Insert > Bookmarks > Remove Bookmark. If you have multiple bookmarks associated with the same string of text, a sheet appears 1. 2. Figure 254 The Remove Multiple Bookmarks sheet 1.
222 Working with Bookmarks and Cross-references Book Tools Figure 255 The Cross-reference dialog; bookmarks sorted by location in the Navigator pane and by display text in the Cross-reference sheet You have many options. The dialog opens listing your bookmarks. You can show them by location in the document or sort them “alphabetically” by their text. The cross-reference display the page number on which the marked text appears or in a variety of other ways. 3.
Creating Documents 4. 223 Locate and select the item to which you want to refer. Click Location to display the items in the order as they appear in the document. Typing the first few characters of the item scrolls the list to that point. In Figure 255 above, typing jo would select “John Manly’s Talk”. ▶ ▶ Or: Click Display text to display the items “alphabetically”. Typing the first few characters of the item scrolls the list to that point. In Figure 255 above, typing jo would select “Joe Green”.
224 Working with Bookmarks and Cross-references ▶ Book Tools Table • Page Number displays the number of the page where the first line of the table appears. • Paragraph Number displays the number of the paragraph where the marker appears. • Line Number displays the number of the line where the first line of the table appears. • Section Number displays the number of the section where the first line of the table appears.
Creating Documents 225 Adding other links in your text Nisus Writer Pro enables you to add a variety of links into your text. Add a hyperlink to any content available in the bookmark dialog. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Select the text to which you want to add the link. Choose the menu command Insert > Hyperlink > Add Link to Bookmark…. Choose the kind of item to which you want the link to point as explained in step 3 on page 222.
226 Working with Bookmarks and Cross-references Book Tools Jump to Any Page in Your Document You can quickly jump to any page in your document. There are two methods. Jump to any page using the menus 1. Choose the menu command View > Go to Page…, or, when in Page View the Page pop-up menu in the lower left corner of the Statusbar as illustrated in Figure 256. Figure 256 The Page pop-up menu 2. 3. Enter the page number to which you wish to jump.
Creating Documents 227 Creating Tables of Contents, Outlines and Indexes Nisus Writer Pro enables you to create both tables of contents and indexes. Your document can have multiple tables of contents and indexes and each of these can have multiple levels. Nisus Writer Pro also, using the tools of the table of contents, enables you to simulate many of the features of using an outline.
228 Creating Tables of Contents, Outlines and Indexes Book Tools You can modify the appearance of the Navigator pane. • By default it appears on the left side of your document. To display Navigator pane on the right side of your document: ▶ Choose (uncheck) the menu command View > Navigator > Attach on Left Side. • ! The text of the Navigator pane displays on a white background in Lucida Grande 12 pt.
Creating Documents Tables of Contents 229 Figure 259 Heading styles indicating that they are automatically included in the table of contents “In Default TOC, Level #” Insert a table of contents into your document 1. 2. Put your insertion point where you want the table of contents to appear. Choose the menu command Tools > Table of Contents > Insert TOC.
230 Creating Tables of Contents, Outlines and Indexes Book Tools Figure 260 The Basic setting of the Rebuild Table of Contents dialog 3. In the dialog that appears you have a variety of options. On the Basic level you can… ▶ Choose Only update the page numbers. Or ▶ Choose Update all content. For more options, click the Advanced tab. Figure 261 The Advanced setting of the Rebuild Table of Contents dialog Choose Update page numbers. And/or Choose Add new entries and remove stale entries.
Creating Documents Tables of Contents 231 Format the text of your table of contents The format (appearance) of the table of contents is controlled by two tools of Nisus Writer Pro. • • The settings in the Configure TOCs dialog as explained and illustrated in Figure 262 below). The Paragraph Styles of your document’s Style Sheet explained in “Modify a style” on page 100. Figure 262 The Configure TOCs dialog Determine whether page numbers appear or not 1. 2. 3. 4.
232 Creating Tables of Contents, Outlines and Indexes Book Tools • 4. Replace tab characters in marked text with Click Apply Changes. Set the leader that appears between the table of contents text and the page number 1. 2. 3. Choose the menu command Tools > Table of Contents > Configure TOC Styles…. Choose the table of contents style you want to modify in the Style Name pop-up menu in the Configure TOCs dialog. Click any one of the following • • • • • 4.
Creating Documents Tables of Contents Figure 263 The Configure TOCs dialog reconfigured for a new table of contents 5. Click Apply Changes. Determine which table of contents is active The command checked beneath Configure TOC Styles… indicates the name of the current table of contents among those that exist in the document. This is the table of contents that is active, highlighted (in the text), and will be inserted when you choose Insert TOC.
234 Creating Tables of Contents, Outlines and Indexes Book Tools Maintain a running table of contents You can also use markers and cross-references (see pages 217 and 221) to create a running table of contents that constantly updates itself as illustrated at the top of each section in this document. After you have thoroughly marked your document, place your insertion point near the top of a chapter. 1.
Creating Documents Outlines Figure 266 The Table of Contents Navigator displaying a hierarchical outline Modifying the structure of your document using the Table of Contents Navigator You can modify the structure of your document, moving a portion higher or lower in the text, promoting or demoting various portions using the Table of Contents Navigator. Moving portions of your document 1. 2. Click the heading for the portion of your document you wish to move in the Table of Contents Navigator.
236 Creating Tables of Contents, Outlines and Indexes Book Tools Figure 267 Moving a portion of a document using the Table of Contents Navigator If you use the automatic numbering systems of Nisus Writer Pro (and have them set to Continue Numbering from Previous) Nisus Writer Pro will automatically renumber appropriately as illustrated in Figure 268.
Creating Documents Outlines 237 Demoting portions of your document You can easily demote a heading in the hierarchy of your document’s table of contents. 1. Click the heading for the portion of your document you wish to move in the Table of Contents Navigator. 2. Press @ or click the Indent button on the Toolbar or choose the menu command Format > Increase List Level.
238 Creating Tables of Contents, Outlines and Indexes Book Tools Indexes An index is an “alphabetical” list of terms (words, numerals, symbols, and/or phrases) that may appear in your document. These are related to key topics discussed in your text. The terms are followed by page numbers that indicate where these ideas are discussed. An index is usually placed at the end of a document. It is possible to have various indexes; for example subjects, proper names, foreign words, etc.
Creating Documents 4. ! Indexes 239 Check the commands you want in the dialog then click Mark. Of course, if you index a word as the same word, it is equivalent to choosing Index. Internally, however, Index As… and Index are different. This internal difference is important under the following circumstances: • • ! When you want to create overlapping index entries (as explained on page 243) When you edit the entries.
240 Creating Tables of Contents, Outlines and Indexes Book Tools Emphasize a particular term in the index You might have a document that deals with a wide variety of subjects that have similar spellings. You can make any one of those terms stand out. 1. Select the word, or phrase to be emphasized. 2. Choose the menu command Tools > Index > Index As…. 3.
Creating Documents Indexes 241 Use the index to refer to other entries If you want to index “fish” as “fishing” (have “fishing” appear in the index) and refer to the actual pages in your document (where the word “fish” appears), the instructions in “Index one thing as something else “index as”” on page 238 suffice. However, if you do not want the page numbers to appear but rather have the reader refer to a different subject in the index, Nisus Writer Pro offers a different tool.
242 Creating Tables of Contents, Outlines and Indexes Book Tools Create a hierarchical index 1. 2. Select the text you want indexed. Choose the menu command Tools > Index > Index As…. Figure 273 Sub-topics for a hierarchical index 3. 4. 5. In the Index as topic text box enter the text you want to appear in the index. In the Sub-topic(s) text box enter the sub-topic(s) you want to appear in the index.
Creating Documents Indexes 243 Create an index entry which references all text of a given font, size and/or style (or language) Similar to the instructions on “Set the various headings of your document so that they automatically appear in the table of contents” which appear on page 228, you can apply the index attribute to any Paragraph or Character Style in your document. This makes marking text for the index automatic.
244 Creating Tables of Contents, Outlines and Indexes Book Tools Automatically index your document using a word list You may want to automatically search through your document to find all occurrences of a particular set of terms that should be indexed. To do this Nisus Writer Pro requires a word list file. Such a file consists of a list of terms, each associated with a particular indexing topic.
Creating Documents Indexes 245 Eliminate the terms you do not want to index. When Nisus Writer Pro indexes a document using a word list file it requires that the word list consist of a “table”. The word (or phrase) in the left column is the word to find in the document. The word (or phrase) in the right column is what should appear in the index. The two columns must be separated by a tab. You can use colons!to separate sub-topics, as explained in!Create a hierarchical index on page 242: 3.
246 Creating Tables of Contents, Outlines and Indexes Book Tools Format your index The format (appearance) of your index is controlled by two primary tools of Nisus Writer Pro. • • The settings in the Configure Indexes dialog as explained below. The Paragraph Styles of your document’s Style Sheet explained in “Modify a style” on page 100.
Creating Documents Indexes 247 Determine what “leader” separates the index entry from its reference If you use a tab to separate the index entry from its reference you can display any one of a variety of items in the space that appears. 1. Choose the menu command Tools > Index > Configure Index Styles…. 2. Choose the index style you want to modify in the Style Name pop-up menu in the Configure Indexes dialog. 3.
248 Creating Tables of Contents, Outlines and Indexes Book Tools Create a new index You can create any number of indexes for your document. • • • Subject Index Index of Specialized Terms Index of “Foreign Language” Terms as described in “Create an index entry which references all text of a given font, size and/or style (or language)” on page 243. • Index of References • Table of Authorities (which, while it has the name “table” is actually an index) Each unique index has its own Style. 1.
Creating Documents Indexes 249 Quickly add text to the index of your choice You can use the Indexing palette to add text to the index without using the menus. 1. Choose the menu command Window > Palettes > Indexing. Figure 278 The Indexing palette 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. You can allow the window to float wherever it is most comfortable for you. Choose the index to which you want to add an entry. Select text you want to include in the index. Click the + at the bottom left corner of the palette.
Creating Documents Working with Bibliographic Reference Tools Nisus Writer Pro 2.x includes tools for managing your Bookends references database. Once you have created your database in Bookends you can use the tools of the menu Tools > Bibliography to enter your references into your document and generate your appropriately formatted bibliography. Link Bookends to Nisus Writer Pro Before you start your work with Bookends make sure that the application is running. You will see the Bookends icon in the Dock.
252 Working with Bibliographic Reference Tools 1. 2. 3. Book Tools In Bookends, select the reference(s) you want to cite in the Nisus Writer Pro document. Place your insertion point where you want the citation(s) to appear in your Nisus Writer Pro document. In Figure 281, the insertion point is at the end of the sentence that ends with “hu.” three lines above the Bookends window. Choose the menu command Tools > Bibliography > Insert Citation.
Creating Documents ▶ ! 253 As an alternative, you can put your insertion point where you want the citation to appear in the Nisus Writer Pro document, and then in Bookends, select the appropriate reference(s) and choose the menu command Edit > Copy Selected Citations. This only works if you have, linked Bookends to Nisus Writer Pro, as explained on page 251. Otherwise the menu does only what it says, it copies the citation to the clipboard without inserting it in your Nisus Writer Pro document.
254 Working with Bibliographic Reference Tools Book Tools Figure 283 A document ready for bibliographic scanning If you do not set a particular location, Nisus Writer Pro will place the bibliography at the very end of the document. Scan your document for bibliographic references Once you have determined the preferred location of your bibliography, as described in “Set the location of your bibliography” on page 253 you can scan your document for its citations.
Creating Documents Figure 284 The same document as in Figure 283 above with the bibliography inserted Restore the full text citations to your document As you continue working on your document you may want to display the full citations rather than the references. This also removes the formatted bibliography from the document, restoring everything as illustrated in Figure 283 on page 254. ▶ Choose the menu Tools > Bibliography > Unscan Document.
Polishing & Managing Documents This part of your Nisus Writer Pro documentation contains information that helps you manage and fine tune documents. It also gives you some ideas on how to use Nisus Writer Pro effectively. Once, and even while you are in the process of writing, and especially once you have written your document you will probably want to take a closer look at different portions of it.
258 Moving Around in Your Documents Moving the Insertion Point Using the “Go To” Commands Nisus Writer Pro offers a number of “go to” commands in the View menu. Go to page See “Jump to Any Page in Your Document” on page 226. Go to or from comments See “Move to and from comments” on page 329. Go to header/footer See “Find the header or footer for a particular section of your document” on page 139.
Polishing & Managing Documents 259 Proofing Documents This portion of the manual contains instructions for using the tools supplied by Nisus Writer Pro to make sure you use the correct words in your documents. How to Check Spelling ..................................................................... Check your spelling using the Language palette ......................... Have Nisus Writer Pro correct your typos as you type ................. Set your dictionary preferences ...............................
260 Proofing Documents Receiving commented files from others ..................................... 336 Add your comments to the comments of others .......................... 337 Review comment histories .......................................................
Polishing & Managing Documents 261 How to Check Spelling The spelling checker checks for more than misspelled words. Check your spelling using the Language palette Nisus Writer Pro can check the spelling of the word where your insertion point appears whenever you pause to think. ▶ Keep the Language palette visible (either in the Tooldrawer or on your Desktop) the Language palette unobtrusively interacts with your text. • If the word is misspelled the Language palette suggests corrections.
262 How to Check Spelling Proofing Documents Set your dictionary preferences 1. Choose the menu command Nisus Writer Pro > Preferences… and click New Document. 2. Click View. 3. (Un)Check “Check Spelling As You Type” as you prefer. This applies only to new documents. You can change this on a per-document basis by choosing the menu command Edit > Spelling > Check Spelling As You Type. ! Misspelled words appear with a red squiggly line beneath them.
Polishing & Managing Documents 263 The same words appear in the submenu of the Correct Spelling and Correct Spelling & Add To QuickFix submenus. The Correct Spelling & Add To QuickFix submenu also has a command to Open QuickFix Preferences…. The QuickFix preferences are explained in the section “Determine What QuickFix Fixes” beginning on page 385. Figure 288 The correct spelling (and much more) contextual menu Start the spelling checker 1. 2. 3.
264 How to Check Spelling Proofing Documents When Nisus Writer Pro finds an unknown word it presents you with a list of correctly-spelled suggestions. The spelling checker also flags words it does not recognize. It ignores lowercase letters at the start of a sentence, and repeated words. When the spelling checker finds a word not in the Apple system dictionary, it suggests alternatives and allows you to correct it, ignore it, or learn the word. Set the starting point of the spelling checker 1. 2.
Polishing & Managing Documents 265 Skip words flagged by the spelling checker You can make the spelling checker skip words that it might otherwise flag in a number of different ways. • • • ▶ ▶ Skip the word in a session. Mark the word while a particular file is open. Add the word to the Dictionary (by clicking Learn). If the spelling checker comes to a word that it does not recognize, yet is accurately spelled.
266 Using the Nisus Thesaurus Proofing Documents Using the Nisus Thesaurus in the Language palette As illustrated above in Figure 286 on page 261, the Language palette alternates between a spelling checker and the Nisus Thesaurus. Using the Nisus Thesaurus as a free standing application In addition to the Language palette, you can open the complete Nisus Thesaurus, illustrated in Figure 292 by clicking its icon in the Language palette, visible when it is in thesaurus mode.
Polishing & Managing Documents 267 Figure 293 The Thesaurus (and much more) contextual menu Using Multiple Language Dictionaries Nisus Writer Pro offers you access to all the dictionaries that come with OS X. Check your Apple documentation to confirm how to turn on these various capabilities. Other dictionaries are available on the Internet, for example CocoAspell .
268 Hyphenating your text Proofing Documents Hyphenating your text According to the Apple text engine used in hyphenation is a “view” of your document, not a function of editing or spelling. You turn the display of your text as hyphenated or not. Turn hyphenation on ▶ Choose the menu command View > Hyphenation > Normal. Turn hyphenation off Choose the menu command View > Hyphenation > Disabled. Nisus Writer Pro does, however offer a few additional controls.
Polishing & Managing Documents 269 Figure 294 Hyphenation illustrated: (from upper left to lower right) Disabled; Normal; More Often; prevented in the last paragraph Word count, text analysis, document properties & statistics Nisus Writer Pro continually keeps track of the number of characters, words and paragraphs in your document or selection. This information is visible in the Statistics palette.
270 Word count, text analysis, document properties & statistics Proofing Documents Keep a running count of the characters, words and/or paragraphs of your document in your header or footer Headers and footers, as explained on page 143 are an excellent place for displaying variable data that describes your document. In addition to the automatic numbers, date & time variables and document properties described there, you can also display: • the total number of characters in the document.
Polishing & Managing Documents 271 Document properties Nisus Writer Pro enables you to enter a wide variety of meta information that you can insert in your document. A complete listing of these properties which you can insert appears in the menu commands portion of the documentation on page 439. To enter specific information into your document for later insertion: 1. Choose the menu command File > Properties…. 2.
Polishing & Managing Documents 273 Paginating Numbering Lines, Sorting and More This portion of the manual shows you how easy it is to give your documents a polished, professional look. The sections include Pagination ....................................................................................... Line Numbering ............................................................................... Number lines continuously throughout the entire document ....... Number lines for particular sections ......
274 Pagination Paginating Numbering Lines, Sorting and More Pagination Nisus Writer Pro comes preset for your new files to display with pagination turned on, ready to print your file on paper. Figure 298 The automatic page break in Nisus Writer Pro Periodically you may want to enter and edit your text without concern for its formatting. In this context, you might prefer to display your document as though it were a continuous scroll rather than individual pages.
Polishing & Managing Documents 275 Set where page breaks appear 1. 2. Click your insertion point where you want the page break to appear. Choose the menu command Insert > Page Break.
276 Pagination Paginating Numbering Lines, Sorting and More Display a document as a continuous scroll ▶ ! Choose Draft View or Full Screen view from the View menu. When you use Draft View or Full Screen view, Nisus Writer Pro does not display headers and/or footers, columns or line numbers. Floating palettes continue to display.
Polishing & Managing Documents 277 Figure 301 The Draft View in Nisus Writer Pro with an inserted page break You can see how to have the appropriate page number appear on each page of your document by choosing the menu View > View > Page and see “Numbering Pages” on page 141. See where page breaks appear Choose the menu command View > Page View. In Draft View or Full Screen view Nisus Writer Pro draws a color-customizable line indicating the location of the page break.
278 Pagination Paginating Numbering Lines, Sorting and More Find page breaks in your document 1. 2. 3. Choose the menu command Edit > Find > Show Find…. Choose the menu command Gear > Special Characters > Any Break in the Find/Replace window. Click Next.
Polishing & Managing Documents 279 Line Numbering Nisus Writer Pro can display line numbers or paragraph numbers down the left edge of the document window (outside the margin) to the left of each line of text, and print them on your paper. If you don’t want to print line or paragraph numbers, be sure to turn them off before you choose Print…. Number lines You can have your lines numbered throughout your document or restart at the beginning of every page or every section of the document.
280 Line Numbering Paginating Numbering Lines, Sorting and More Those aspects of line numbers that can be controlled exclusively by the Line Numbers palette include Figure 303 The Line Numbers palette • • • • • the number at which they start; whether each line has a number, or only specific lines at regular determined intervals display; the format of the numbers (Arabic, Roman, Kanji, etc.); the space between your text and the numbers; the font/face/size/color, etc.
Polishing & Managing Documents 281 may not display correctly (immediately following as illustrated in Figure 304 below, or in later sections). Figure 304 Line number display problem caused by narrow gutter Number lines for legal documents (“Pleading Pages” or “Pleading Paper”) Many lawyers require a vertical line that runs down the page between the line numbers and document body. According to Rule 2.
282 Line Numbering Paginating Numbering Lines, Sorting and More Figure 305 A “Pleading Page” or “Pleading Paper” document Alphabetizing (Sorting) Paragraphs It only takes Nisus Writer Pro a few seconds to sort lists consisting of individual paragraphs. (Each paragraph can be as short as one character.) Paragraphs can be a blank line, a few words, a block of text, or even an image, followed by a Return character. • • Blank lines are placed first.
Polishing & Managing Documents ! 283 Sort order can vary depending on: • • Your system version and the system’s Text & International preferences. The Language attribute you have applied to the text. Sort paragraphs 1. 2. Select the range of paragraphs you want to sort. Choose Ascending (A-Z) or Descending (Z-A) from the menu Edit > Sort Paragraphs. Jumble paragraphs 1. 2. ! Select the range of paragraphs you want to jumble. Choose the menu command Edit > Sort Paragraphs > Randomly (shuffle).
284 Special “Styles” Paginating Numbering Lines, Sorting and More Cause letter pairs to use ligatures Ligatures (characters in certain fonts (such as fl) consist of two or more letters or characters joined together). Various fonts support more or fewer ligatures. For example in the font Apple Chancery, the letters “f” followed by “i” and “f” followed by “l” appear differently depending on whether or not ligatures are turned on or off.
Polishing & Managing Documents 285 Color text 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. ▶ Select the text you wish to color. Choose the color you want from the menu Format > Text Color. If one of those colors does not match your desired palette: Choose the menu command Format > Show Text Colors. Use the various options to have your text display in the color you want. Close the Colors panel. The easiest way to change colored text back to black is to choose Remove Color from the menu that pops up from the Color tag on the Statusbar.
286 Special “Styles” ! Paginating Numbering Lines, Sorting and More This highlight of text prints. It is different from the selection “Highlight Color” that you set in the Appearance pane of your System Preferences and the background Check Spelling and Find/Replace Highlight Color you set in the Nisus Writer Pro General preferences as explained in “Set “defaults” for the application and new files” on page 116. Background color You can set a printable background color for any selection of your text.
Polishing & Managing Documents • • • 287 TextEdit (and possibly other Apple RTF capable applications) only recognize Background Colors and ignores Highlight colors in RTF as well as Paragraph Borders and Paragraph Shading. Predefined Highlight colors in Nisus Writer Pro can be customized by the user. Microsoft Word 2004 does not allow arbitrary highlight colors. If a user chooses a non-standard color Word will show the “closest” color of those (16 illustrated in Figure 310) it allows.
288 Special “Styles” Paginating Numbering Lines, Sorting and More Paragraph Borders Palette Buttons Multiple Line Controls Deselect All Horizontal Individual Line Controls Vertical Top Edge Left Edge Select All Between Paragraphs Bottom Edge Right Edge Table 26 The Paragraph Border palette buttons • • • • 3. 4.
Polishing & Managing Documents 8. 9. ! ! ! 289 Click the Color Picker tool and choose a color from the Colors panel as illustrated in Figure 132 on page 120. In the Padding portion of the palette, set the amount of space you want between your text and the border. You can set the Horizontal (the space to the right and left) and Vertical (the space above and below) padding. a. Click the “steppers” to increase or decrease the amount of horizontal and/or vertical padding. or b.
290 Special “Styles” Paginating Numbering Lines, Sorting and More Nisus Writer Pro the Paragraph Borders and Paragraph Shading palettes make this much easier and offer greater control as well as versatility. Figure 316 A paragraph with a 5 pt border (yellow of Highlight color HTML EBFF64) & shading (yellow of background color HTML FFFF00; pattern set to 45% shading) padding set to 6 pt all around Every now and then you may need to have a bit of text stand out from the rest.
Polishing & Managing Documents 291 Cleaning Up Documents • • You may receive e-mail from someone who “SCREAMS” for sentences on end. You may need to edit your text and then make sure that your text wraps at the appropriate “column” number. Nisus Writer Pro has the tools to help you out. Change the case of alphabetic characters Choose commands from the Convert submenu to change the case of text in a selection.
292 Using Normal Find Finding and Replacing Text Finding and Replacing Text In Nisus Writer Pro, if you can describe a text pattern, you can probably find it. If you can find it, you can almost definitely change it to any other text pattern you can describe. Nisus Writer Pro offers three ways to find and replace text Normal Find, PowerFind™, and PowerFind Pro (regex). For the purpose of brevity, “PowerFind Pro (regex”) will be called “PowerFind Pro”.
Polishing & Managing Documents 293 If you simply press @ Nisus Writer Pro moves the insertion point to the Replace box. If you press < Nisus Writer Pro searches for what you have in the Find box. Enter something into the Replace box ▶ ▶ Choose the menu command Edit > Find > Show Find… press @ and type the text you want to replace. Or Select the text you want to replace in your document, choose Copy to Replace from the Copy or Find submenus of the Edit menu. Either find or find and replace text 1. 2.
294 Using Normal Find Finding and Replacing Text lowercase occurrences of the Find Expression. “I hope that the writer in you will blossom with Nisus Writer Pro.” With Ignore Case turned off and the word “writer” as a find expression, Nisus Writer Pro would find only the first instance of the word (the noun not the proper noun). “I hope that the writer in you will blossom with Nisus Writer Pro.” Whole Word When checked, Nisus Writer Pro finds the Find Expression only if it forms an entire word.
Polishing & Managing Documents 295 When unchecked, Nisus Writer Pro replaces the exact match of upper and/or lower case characters that appears in the Replace Expression. Suppose you have the sentence “I hope that the writer in you will blossom with Nisus Writer Pro.” With Match Case checked (turned on), Nisus Writer Pro replaces both upper and lowercase occurrences of the Find Expression. “I hope that the writer in you will blossom with Nisus Writer Pro.
296 Using Normal Find Finding and Replacing Text “AnyText” (Capitalized, UPPERCASE or not; of any color or size, and almost any attribute), so long as it is emphatic. Leaving all other text untouched, the Replace expression matches the case and attributes already there, and has two attributes associated with it, which it adds: Underline and 14 point.
Polishing & Managing Documents 297 Choose the expression you want from the Recent Find or Recent Replace submenu of the Gear menu in the Find/Replace window. Nisus Writer Pro places whatever expression you choose in the Find/Replace window dialog as illustrated in Figure 324. ▶ Figure 324 The Recent Find submenu of the Gear menu in the Find/Replace window Save a find or replace expression You can even save any Normal Find, PowerFind or PowerFind Pro expression.
298 Using Normal Find Finding and Replacing Text Figure 326 Naming a saved expression 3. Click OK. If, however, you have gone on to other tasks and you later remember that you want to save that complex expression you can do that. 4. Click Recent Find Expressions or Recent Replace Expressions from the PowerFind column in the Find/Replace browser. 5.
Polishing & Managing Documents 299 Using a saved find or replace expression ▶ Choose the saved expression you want from the menu Gear > Saved Expressions inside the Find/Replace window. If you choose the command from the Gear menu beside the Find what text edit box Nisus Writer Pro inserts the expression in the top box; if you choose the command from the Gear menu beside the Replace with box, Nisus Writer Pro inserts the lower box.
300 Using Normal Find Finding and Replacing Text Creating a macro from a set of Find, Replace and or Find/Replace expressions Nisus Writer Pro can automatically create a macro out of any find or find/replace expression you build in the Find/Replace window. (For an explanation of macros see “Macros, Skimming the Surface” and “Macros, the Deeper Workings” on pages 397 and 401 respectively.) All you need do is choose the menu command Gear > Macroize… in the Find/Replace window.
Polishing & Managing Documents 301 Using PowerFind PowerFind gives you powerful yet easy-to-use tools that extend the Normal Find and Replace functions in Nisus Writer Pro. There may be times when you need to find or replace text which conforms to a complex description or which varies from place to place in your document. For example, to find and highlight every paragraph that contains a semicolon.
302 Using PowerFind Finding and Replacing Text Figure 330 A PowerFind metacharacter PowerFind finds literal text exactly as it is entered. Literal text means characters that have no special meaning on their own (that is, they are not “meta” “characters”). The PowerFind mode considers all text to be literal; it will find exactly what you type.
Polishing & Managing Documents 303 Figure 332 The Find/Replace Window’s Find What menu Using the PowerFind Browser The PowerFind Browser is a floating window. It functions much as the Finder browser window. When you select from the commands on the left, new options become available in the columns to the right from which you can select more options. ! While it may appear to be a bit unwieldy, the PowerFind Browser is very useful because it can give you an explanation of what each metacharacter means.
304 Using PowerFind Finding and Replacing Text Figure 333 The PowerFind Browser Find capitalized words (a PowerFind example) 1. Open the document you need to revise and move the insertion point to the beginning of the document or type the following into a new document I went for a walk along the Atlantic City boardwalk and thought about all I had missed.
Polishing & Managing Documents 6. 305 We know that most words have more than one lowercase character. If it is checked, be sure to uncheck Ignore Case. Otherwise Nisus Writer Pro will find all words whether they are capitalized or not. Figure 334 Building the PowerFind expression 7. Click the Next button to begin the search. Nisus Writer Pro can find all capitalized words, one at a time. Select all instances of a found expression at once ▶ Click Find All.
306 Using PowerFind Finding and Replacing Text
Polishing & Managing Documents 307 Match set Use Match menu commands to match phrases found in Find and Replace expressions. Or Any characters on either side of the Or expression Capture() Causes the matched text it encapsulates to be available as one of the 'Captured' items either later in the search string or in the replace string. This expression is valid only in the search string, not in the replace string.
308 Using PowerFind Finding and Replacing Text NotFollowedBy() and NotPrecededBy() Similar to!FollowedBy() and PrecededBy() neither NotFollowedBy() nor NotPrecededBy() “capture” anything. Think of them as a nested!expression (or perhaps a “grouped”, “sub”, or “contained” expression). These each require that the nested expression to not be present. In other words, they are zero-width and do not contribute to the full match.
Polishing & Managing Documents N Times 309 Exactly “N” repeated occurrences N - M Times Between “N” and “M” repeated occurrences The expression illustrated in Figure 340 (find any A followed by any B which must be there between 3 and 5 times; using N - M Times) finds ABBB, ABBBB and ABBBBB only. Figure 340 The “N - M Times” PowerFind expression ! Note that the Repeat refers only to the immediately preceding character or variable.
310 Using PowerFind Finding and Replacing Text Finding and/or replacing non-Roman characters Specify which Script (“language”) your text is in by choosing the appropriate language from the Scripts / Blocks set or: 1. Choose Special Characters… from the bottom of the Edit menu to open the Apple-supplied Characters palette as explained in “Enter Unicode text” on page 471 to find non-Roman characters. 2.
Polishing & Managing Documents 311 Special Positions set Use options from the Special Positions set to determine the location of the beginning or ending of the Find expression. Start of Word Matches the start of any word. The expression illustrated in Figure 342 would find any word that begins with a “g”. Figure 342 The “Start of Word” PowerFind expression End of Word Matches the end of any word. The expression illustrated in Figure 343 would find any word the ends with a “g”.
312 Using PowerFind Finding and Replacing Text Figure 344 Special Positions set of Find/Replace expressions illustrated Wild Card set Include a wild card in your expression when you want to find one or more characters. For example, use the wild card To look for any number between 0 and 9. If you know you want to find 93, type 9 and 3 in the Find box. If you just know that your document has a two digit number, but you don’t know what it is, enter .
Polishing & Managing Documents 313 Any Whitespace The Space character; a Tab, a Return, a Soft Return and a Page Break Any Space Any single space character; a normal space, non-breaking space, etc. including the Word Joiner (Zero Width Non-Breaking Space) U+2060.
314 Using PowerFind 2. 3. Finding and Replacing Text Click in the Replace box and choose Return from the Special Characters set. Check Whole File and click Replace All to remove all blank lines. Remove page breaks You can insert forced page breaks in your Nisus Writer Pro documents by choosing the menu command Insert > Page Break. You can also find and remove them using PowerFind. 1. Click in the Find box and choose Any Break from the Special Characters set. 2. Leave the Replace box blank. 3.
Polishing & Managing Documents 315 Find two neighboring duplicate paragraphs 1. 2. 3. 4. Double-click Capture() from the Match column in the PowerFind Browser window. Place your insertion point between the two portions of the “Capture” metacharacter. Double-click AnyParagraph from the Wild Card column. Double-click Return from the Special Characters column. So far, the Find expression appears as illustrated in Figure 349.
316 Using PowerFind Finding and Replacing Text The tag illustrated is Choose the menu command Gear > Match > Found (this time beside the lower Gear, beneath Replace with) inside the Find/Replace window. 8. Type the closing HTML tag you want. The tag illustrated is 9. Press @ once again to select all the “text” in the Find what area. 10. Apply the attributes you want to find (that match the HTML tags you’ve entered) from the Format menu. 11.
Polishing & Managing Documents Figure 355 The Save As dialog pointing to the Macros folder of Nisus Writer Pro Figure 356 Naming a Nisus Writer Pro macro 317
318 Using PowerFind Pro Finding and Replacing Text Using PowerFind Pro Everything you’ve learned about finding and replacing text with Normal Find and PowerFind also applies to PowerFind Pro. PowerFind Pro uses metacharacters11 to represent the wild cards and other specialized feature characters which are used in the Find/Replace window.
Polishing & Managing Documents 319 12 is the expression that you want to find (you can replace this with any other expression you want to find) + “one or more times” character Find any set of characters Suppose you want to search your document for all punctuation marks. Enter [,.;?!]+ in the Find box. ▶ [ and ] the brackets stand for a user-defined wild card, that is whatever appears within them. In this case Nisus Writer Pro interprets the punctuation marks literally.
320 Using PowerFind Pro Finding and Replacing Text Modifier characters Use the modifier characters backslash and colon to change how Nisus Writer Pro interprets what follows them. \ the backslash In PowerFind Pro, the backslash changes the meaning of the character or characters that follow it. For example the character n, is not a metacharacter and has no special meaning. However, \n represents the New Line character in an expression.
Polishing & Managing Documents 321 Neither of these tasks may seem particularly useful for normal word processing. However, you can use Nisus Writer Pro as a text processor to manipulate raw text. ! As illustrated here, you can replace a wide variety of attributes in a Replace with expression. As explained on page 294 you can find literal text with specific attributes.
322 Using PowerFind Pro Finding and Replacing Text User-defined wild cards PowerFind Pro also allows the user to define wild cards. There are two ways to define wild cards. One way is to list all the characters that the wild card matches between brackets []. For example, the expression [abc] is a wild card that matches any of the three letters a, b, or c and nothing else. Another way is to list all the characters the wild card does not match between brackets and a caret [^].
Polishing & Managing Documents 323 * Finds zero or more occurrences of whatever that character or expression matches; the equivalent of the command 0+ on the Repeat menu (“it may or may not be there”) menu (it may or may not be there) ? Finds zero or one occurrence of whatever that character or expression matches; the equivalent of the command 0 or 1 on the Repeat menu; you can also use minus inside brackets to signify a range ??, +?, *? Finds the shortest match allowed from each of the three repeat
324 Using PowerFind Pro Word Finding and Replacing Text Any combination of alphanumeric characters (from as few as one character to extremely long strings) surrounded by non-alphanumeric characters. Advanced exercises, or more examples of putting PowerFind to use These examples explain useful expressions in PowerFind Pro. You can use them as helpful tools for preparing documents as well as for developing more complex user-defined expressions.
Polishing & Managing Documents 325 Replace two or more spaces with one space People who learned to type using typewriters learned to type two spaces at the end of each sentence. This was important because the typewriter’s characters were in a monospaced font (each character had the same width). Typing two spaces at the end of each sentence helped the reader to scan the text. On the computer, most fonts are “fractional” and the old requirement for two spaces after a period no longer applies.
Polishing & Managing Documents Using Comments in Your Documents Nisus Writer Pro enables you to add comments to your document. When you share these documents with others, they can read your comments and/or add their own. Comments can be shown whenever you are in Draft View or Page View but not in Style Sheet nor Full Screen view. Add comments 1. 2. 3. Select the text to which you want to add a comment. Choose the menu command Tools > Comments > Add Comment.
328 Add comments Using Comments in Your Documents As illustrated in Figure 359: • • A new pane opens to the left of the text of your document displaying a “PostIt™” type note area where you can write your comment. Nisus Writer Pro draws a line from the comment to the text in the document to which it is attached and adds a background highlight to the commented text in the same color as the comment note background.
Polishing & Managing Documents 329 Move to and from comments When you are in any particular comment, you do not need to pick up the mouse or move to the trackpad and click back into the document ▶ ▶ ▶ ▶ Press 0 to return to the body of your document, selecting the commented text. Choose the menu command Tools > Comments > Go to Marked Text to return to the body of your document, selecting the commented text.
330 Hide and show comments Using Comments in Your Documents Hide and show, or turn off and on the display of all the comments in your document There might be a time when you want to work on your document without any of the distractions of the comments you have added. In that case you can simply close the Comments pane.
Polishing & Managing Documents 331 Figure 361 The Comments Options dialog Figure 362 Reuben Simon and his fictional co-workers in the Show comments made by pop-up menu ! If you change the display to show a particular author, Nisus Writer Pro automatically switches each comment history to show a comment by that author. If that comment history does not have a comment by the chosen author, all comments in the history are hidden.
332 Hide and show comments Using Comments in Your Documents Figure 363 Comments of multiple authors displayed • Decide whether or not to Highlight comments in the document text. This is essentially the same as the command Highlight Comments in Text explained in “Hide and show only the highlighted comments in the text” on page 330. • Decide whether or not to Show comments pane along side the document or not.
Polishing & Managing Documents ▶ ▶ • 333 Check (turn on) Smart fade out inactive comments while working to have the comments fade. Uncheck (turn off) Smart fade out inactive comments while working to prevent the comments from fading. Figure 363 illustrates “smart fade” turned off. Figure 365 and Figure 366 show “smart fade” turned on. Determine the opacity of faded comments.
334 Hide and show comments Using Comments in Your Documents Figure 365 Comments of Minna Hale with the Comments pane displayed and comments highlighted in the text
Polishing & Managing Documents 335 Figure 366 Comments with text and graphic minimal opacity and Comments pane on the right Minimizing the comments in your document You can minimize the Comments pane by dragging the vertical line that separates it from the text of your document. Doing this leaves the highlight markings and lines in the text as illustrated in Figure 367.
336 Hide and show comments Using Comments in Your Documents Drag to minimize/expand the Comments pane. Lines draw to indicate the presence of comments even when they are minimized. Figure 367 Minimizing the Comments pane; lines draw to indicate presence of comments Receiving commented files from others As explained in the fictional situation described in “Additional controls for the display of comments” on page 330, you might receive a document that has comments added by a colleague.
Polishing & Managing Documents 337 Figure 368 The Toolbar customized with the Comments button (indicating the presence of comments in the document) Figure 369 The Comments button indicating the number of bits of text with comments associated with them • If, however the document with comments comes from an application other than Nisus Writer Pro, it will always display the Comments pane when you open the document.
338 Review comment histories Using Comments in Your Documents You cannot circulate through the comments back to the beginning. When you reach the first or last comment, Nisus Writer Pro will beep, indicating it has reached the beginning or end but it will not circle back. ! Once a comment history has been established (as in in Figure 371) you can only edit the most recent comment, and only if you are its author.
Polishing & Managing Documents 339 Tracking Changes to Your Documents There are three essential steps to tracking changes: 1. Turn on (and off) track changes, explained in “Start tracking changes” on page 339. 2. Examine Tracked Changes, explained in “View and review tracked changes” on page 341. 3. Accept or reject the changes, explained in “Accept or reject changes made to your document” on page 346. Using Track Changes Nisus Writer Pro can monitor the alterations made to any text.
340 Start tracking changes Tracking Changes to Your Documents Supposing that Anna Sewell had Nisus Writer Pro, she might have made comments in her “manuscript” (explained in detail in the section “Using Comments in Your Documents” beginning on page 327) before sending it to her publisher. In her comments she might have expressed her concerns. The document might have looked something like what appears in Figure 373.
Polishing & Managing Documents 341 Figure 374 Jarrold’s changes to Black Beauty ! Because what has been added to the document is visible and highlighted, this does not appear in the Tracked Changes note. Only what has been replaced is noted. The document area always shows the latest (most recent) version, while the Tracked Changes pane shows text that has been deleted or replaced. Thus, if some text is added/inserted, it is merely marked as such and there is no old text to show in the pane.
342 View and review tracked changes ▶ ▶ ! Tracking Changes to Your Documents Choose (uncheck, turn off) the menu command Tools > Track Changes > Show Changes Pane or from the Gear menu at the bottom of the Track Changes pane to close the Track Changes pane but leave the highlight on. Choose (check, turn on) the menu command Tools > Track Changes > Show Changes Pane or from the Gear menu at the bottom of the Track Changes pane to open the Track Changes pane and leave the highlight on.
Polishing & Managing Documents Figure 375 Black Beauty after having been edited by too many people 343
344 View and review tracked changes Tracking Changes to Your Documents Figure 376 Black Beauty displaying the changes of only one editor Determine how Nisus Writer Pro displays the changes ▶ ▶ ▶ Turn on/off Highlight changes in the document text. This is essentially the same as the command Highlight Changes in Text explained in “Hide and show only the highlighted changes in the text” on page 342. Turn on/off Show track changes pane along side the document.
Polishing & Managing Documents 345 You can also can change this in any individual file. From the Titlebars show pop-up menu choose either: • • • • ▶ Author Name, Date and Time Author Name and Date Author Name Date and Time You may need to widen the Tracked Changes pane to see all the information available in the title bar. Decide whether or not inactive changes should fade when your insertion point is not in the paragraph that has the altered text.
346 View and review tracked changes ▶ Tracking Changes to Your Documents Choose Go to Next Change or Go to Previous Change from the menu Tools > Track Changes. Collapsing or expanding the change annotations in your document If your document has many changes in it and you only want to view particular ones, you can collapse or expand any one you want. ▶ Click the title bar of any change annotation.
Polishing & Managing Documents 347 Figure 380 Three change annotations showing text changes with the Reject button highlighted You can reject all the changes in your selection: Choose the menu command Tools > Track Changes > Reject Changes in Selection…. You can reject all changes: ▶ Choose the menu command Tools > Track Changes > Reject All Changes….
348 Accept or reject changes Tracking Changes to Your Documents ! Batching does more than select more content. It allows you to see the effect of (and accept or reject) multiple changes all at once. 4. Click Next or Previous to see each change made. The change, and (if Batch by is on) the surrounding sentence or paragraph appears in the Track Changes display box labeled Original with the change indicated. 5. Determine whether or not you want the changes highlighted in the Review Changes window.
Polishing & Managing Documents 349 Figure 382 The Review Changes window scanning the changes made to Black Beauty 7. When you have reviewed the changes, • Click Accept Changes to accept all the changes in the selection (either the sentence or the paragraph depending on what you selected in step 3 above). • Click Reject Changes to reject all the changes in the selection (either the sentence or the paragraph depending on what you selected in step 3 above).
350 Accept or reject changes Tracking Changes to Your Documents Figure 383 Neither Highlight changes nor Markup additions and deletions checked • Figure 383: Neither Highlight changes nor Markup additions and deletions checked; displays only the modified text.
Polishing & Managing Documents 351 Figure 385 Highlight changes turned off but Markup additions and deletions turned on • Figure 385: Highlight changes turned off but Markup additions and deletions turned on; displays the original text and changes made. Text that has been removed appears in red and strike through. Text that is added appears in blue.
352 Window basics Working with Multiple Documents Working with Multiple Documents Window basics Here are a few guidelines for working with windows • • • • The size of your monitor’s screen determines the window’s size. • To display all windows of all open applications, choose Show All from the Nisus Writer Pro menu. • • To make a window bigger or smaller drag the window’s size box. The window that contains the red yellow and green buttons in its Title Bar is the active window.
Polishing & Managing Documents 353 About Merging Documents Merged documents result from combining information from a host or template document with information from a data document. The host document works like a template and can contain any kind of content just as any other Nisus Writer Pro document. The data document provides the detail that makes each merged document different. Its contents replace the “merge placeholders” in the host document.
354 Merging Documents Working with Multiple Documents Figure 388 A standard business letter with Merge Placeholders ! You will notice that not all the Merge Placeholders in the new letter appear in the menu Insert > Merge Placeholder. You can create any Merge Placeholder you want. 2. Choose the menu command Insert > Merge Placeholder > Other… to enter custom placeholders and choose from the three available options.
Polishing & Managing Documents 355 Figure 389 The “Other…” Merge Placeholder dialog 3. ! Click Insert. If you use a placeholder from something other than the Address Book you would need to create a separate data document as explained in “About data documents” below. This is your template document. The next step for you is to set up your data document. About data documents Here are some guidelines for creating data documents. Data documents are simply CSV, or Commaseparated values files.
356 Merging Documents 7. Working with Multiple Documents Click Save. Figure 390 Saving the data document as Text For the purpose of our example, the (fictional) text of the data file is: Reuben, Simons, Loans and Acquisitions,Museum of Asian Art,198 South Bearing Way,San Francisco, CA,92999,floating graphics Rea, D’ator,Publications,Museum of Asian Art (East Bay),9473 East Seaward Dr.,Oakland,CA,94736,comments Minna,Hale,Chairwoman of the Board, Museum of Asian Art,3857 Ewinda Ave.
Polishing & Managing Documents 357 Press 1 and click to select a range of records or press A to select (or remove from the selection) specific records. If you have created a data document as explained in “About data documents” above, Click A text (CSV) file. Click the Browse… button. Navigate to your data document. Click Open in the lower right corner of the Open dialog that appears. ▶ 1. 2. 3. 4.
358 Merging Documents Working with Multiple Documents Saving the merged document to one file 1. 2. 3. 4. Click Saved to one file. Click the Browse… button. Navigate to the folder where you want the new file saved. Give the file a name. Figure 393 Saving the merged document to one file with records divided by page breaks 5. 6. Click Save in the lower right corner of the Save As dialog that appears. Nisus Writer Pro offers to separate each portion of the new document.
Polishing & Managing Documents 359 Printing Documents When you are ready to commit your document to paper choose the menu command File > Print…. Print an open document ▶ Choose the menu command File > Print… and enter your choices in the dialog that appears. Figure 394 The Print dialog in Leopard When the dialog first appears the options come from the printer driver software you have.
360 Determine aspects of how your document prints Printing Documents Determine how many copies to print ▶ Type the number in the Copies text box. Determine which pages of the document print ▶ ▶ Click All to print the entire document. Click From and type the number of the first page you want to print. Press @ to move your insertion point from field to field.
Polishing & Managing Documents 361 Print odd pages, then even pages You may want to print your document on both sides of a piece of paper. Make sure your margins are correct by following the instructions in “Mirror page placement” on page 129. Make sure your margins appear as you want them as explained in “Set the margins of the sections of your document” on page 127. 1. Choose the menu command File > Print…. 2. Choose Paper Handling from the third (un-named) pop-up menu inside the Print dialog. 3.
362 Add a “watermark” to your document Printing Documents Figure 398 The watermark dialog with settings for the watermark on the Disclaimer/Acknowledgements/Copyright page of this document ! 2. Determine in what portion(s) of your document you want to have the watermark appear.
Polishing & Managing Documents 363 Check Bold and/or Italic to add those attributes Click the Color swatch to set the color of the watermark text. Click Stretch text to fit entire page to have the text spread across from edge to edge independent of the size you set in the Fonts panel. 6. Set the alignment of the watermark. When it first appears, the watermark is automatically centered on the page in the orientation and appearance of the original file. You can alter these. a.
Customizing & Automating Solutions You can customize almost everything about Nisus Writer Pro to fit your working environment. These include subjects already described in the manual such as determining how your windows appear. The searching tools of Nisus Writer Pro allow you to customize the way you find and replace text. The section beginning on page 301 discusses this capability in detail.
366 Using the General Preferences to Control the Application Setting Preferences Determine what happens at launch or activation In addition to these settings, choose the menu command Nisus Writer Pro > Preferences… and from the On application launch pop-up menu choose any of the options below to set • whether files that were open when you had quit are reopened Choose Reopen previously open documents.
Customizing & Automating Solutions • 367 whether or not Nisus Writer Pro automatically checks for new versions when you start the application (if you are online) ▶ Check Automatically check for new versions • the encoding in which text is saved. Most of these encoding systems are to maintain compatibility with older file formats). If you do not understand what this is, you can feel free to ignore it. If you wish to learn more about the subject, check the “Glossary of Useful Terms” on page 461.
368 Choose the Way in Which Files Save Setting Preferences Have Nisus Writer Pro notify you whenever you save a file You can have Nisus Writer Pro discretely notify you whenever a file is safely stored on disk. Learn when Nisus Writer Pro has finished saving a file you explicitly save 1. 2. Choose the menu command Nisus Writer Pro > Preferences… and click Saving at the top of the dialog as illustrated in Figure 400.
Customizing & Automating Solutions ! 369 Nisus Writer Pro comes with this option set to save your files to a temporary backup every 10 minutes, as a safety measure. The backup file is only used in the unlikely incident of Nisus Writer Pro crashing. If a crash occurs, the next time you start Nisus Writer Pro a dialog appears asking if you would like to recover the backup of your autosaved file(s).
370 Choose the Way in Which Files Save Setting Preferences Figure 401 The Missing Backup Folder alert Set the preferred format and encoding for saved files You can choose the particular standard format for the files you create and save From the Default format pop-up menu of the File Formats portion of the Saving preferences, choose either ▶ • • • • • Rich Text Format (RTF) Rich Text Format Directory (RTFD) Microsoft Word Format Nisus Compressed Rich Text13 Text You can override this preference when y
Customizing & Automating Solutions 371 In addition, you can explicitly save your files by choosing the menu command File > Save As…. This enables you to save your file in a variety of formats and encodings. For normal use UTF-8 encoding14 is recommended. For more information about saving files see “Saving Files” on page 53. ! You can open the Document Manager at any time by choosing the menu command Window > Document Manager. Open automatically saved and closed files 1. 2. 3.
372 Choose Various Display Options for Your Documents Setting Preferences Choose Various Display Options for Your Documents Nisus Writer Pro has a wide variety of options that affect the display of your working environment. Some of these have been described elsewhere in the documentation. For a quick review and details on how to use those not explained elsewhere, they are collected here. You can set most of these display options in the Appearance Preferences of Nisus Writer Pro.
Customizing & Automating Solutions 373 Some are rather esoteric. You can see all of them illustrated in Table 28.
374 Choose Various Display Options for Your Documents Setting Preferences Page guides Turn on or off “Page Guides” to have Nisus Writer Pro add (or remove) a color-customizable line around the area of the page (in Page View) which indicates the page’s margins. This also determines the display of the “Click for Header” and “Click for Footer” (and their variants) prompt that appears at the top or bottom of each page. ▶ Uncheck “Show Page Guides” to prevent the guides from appearing in new files.
Customizing & Automating Solutions 375 Insertion point (caret, I-beam) width You can change the overall size of the arrow pointer and insertion point (I-Beam, caret or cursor) in the Mouse & Trackpad portion of the Universal Access System Preference. This affects the pointer and insertion point in all applications, not only Nisus Writer Pro. 1. Choose the menu command Apple > System Preferences…. 2. Choose Universal Access from the System row. 3. Click the Mouse & Trackpad tab. 4.
376 Choose Various Display Options for Your Documents Setting Preferences Change the width of the insertion point ▶ Choose the desired width from the pop-up menu to the right of Insertion point (caret) width in the Appearance portion of the Nisus Writer Pro Preferences dialog as illustrated in Figure 406. Your choices are: • • • • • hairline 1 pt 2 pts 3 pts character width Character width refers to the width of the alphanumeric character closest to the insertion point.
Customizing & Automating Solutions 377 WYSIWYG Font menu You can make the Font menu WYSIWYG. Nisus Writer Pro can display your Font menu (and the Family portion of the Character palette when it is expanded) so that each font’s name appears in that font. ! Displaying your fonts WYSIWYG can cause Nisus Writer Pro to respond sluggishly. Check Font menu shows previews in the Appearance preferences dialog and choose the size you want them to appear in from the accompanying pop-up menu.
378 Choose Various Display Options for Your Documents Setting Preferences When the Fonts panel opens, choose whatever font family, typeface and size you want. The Navigator pane updates as you make your changes so you can see how your choice will appear. 3. When you are satisfied with your selection, close the Fonts panel. You can also set the background color for the Navigator pane. This is explained (with the setting of other background colors) on page 379. 2.
Customizing & Automating Solutions • 379 Author #1 Comments - Author #6 Comments the color of the comments of authors #1 through #6. • My Comments the color of the current user's comments. • Pane Background the color of the Comments pane. In addition, choose the menu command Tools > Comments > Comment Display Options… to set how much information appears in the title bar of the comments and other options on a document by document basis.
380 Choose Various Display Options for Your Documents • • Highlight Color #1 - Highlight Color #6 each numbered color matches the one as it appears in the sequence on the Highlight menu. Invisibles & Guides Nisus Writer Pro offers a number of guides you can turn on or off to help you: • • • • • • • Page frame the color of the line that separates the page from the page backdrop.
Customizing & Automating Solutions • 381 Selection Nisus Writer Pro can help you distinguish between various kinds of selections in your document: • Active Selection the color of the highlight of your text when you select it by double-clicking or dragging the pointer; the default is the color you set in your System Preferences (Appearance) • Find & replace the color of the highlight of your text when you select it by using the Find & Replace tools of Nisus Writer Pro • Flash QuickFix the color of the hi
382 Choose Various Display Options for Your Documents Setting Preferences Figure 410 The various units of measurement options on the ruler Customize Your Clipboards As mentioned on page 40, the Clipboards of Nisus Writer Pro are versatile. You can add to and/or edit the contents of your Clipboards. You can create new Clipboards, choose which should be active, rename them and delete them. ! Information on all the Clipboards not the “Current Clipboard” is “lost” as you quit the application.
Customizing & Automating Solutions 383 Figure 412 Renaming a Clipboard ▶ ▶ ▶ ▶ Double-click a Clipboard’s name in the Preferences dialog to change its name. Click a Clipboard’s name in the Preferences dialog then click Make Active to make it the active “Current Clipboard”. Click a Clipboard’s name in the Preferences dialog then click Edit Clipboard to open it as another Nisus Writer Pro window and edit its contents.
384 Assign Menu Keys to Menu Commands Setting Preferences Check Shift to require 1 to be part of your keyboard shortcut. When assigned, it appears on the menus as ⇧. ▶ Check Option to require 4 to be part of your keyboard shortcut. When assigned, it appears on the menus as ⌥. ▶ Check Control to require 6 to be part of your keyboard shortcut. When assigned, it appears on the menus as ⌃.
Customizing & Automating Solutions 385 Determine What QuickFix Fixes The QuickFix preference of Nisus Writer Pro can fix your typos as you type, it can turn on or off “Smart Punctuation” (including curly quotes) and it can automatically superscript ordinal numbers. Other common terms for QuickFix are text substitution, autocomplete and abbreviation expander. In addition to these tools QuickFix enables you to create and use Glossary files. Use the Glossary to save time.
386 Determine What QuickFix Fixes Setting Preferences Enter smart quotes as you type 1. 2. Choose the menu command Nisus Writer Pro > Preferences… and click QuickFix at the top of the Preferences dialog. Check Use Smart Punctuation (Including “curly” quotes). Many different quotation symbols and styles are available. They are listed in alphabetical order. Choose the one you want from the pop-up menu.
Customizing & Automating Solutions 387 Add or subtract, or modify a “typo” that gets fixed ▶ 1. 2. ▶ ▶ 1. 2. 3. ! Click the Plus (+) button to add a typo. Type the “typo” in the left column. Type the correction in the right column. Select a “typo” to remove from the correcting list and the Minus (-) button to remove it. To modify an existing correction, Double-click the right (correction) portion of the item in the list. Type what you want it to “correct” to. Click your pointer elsewhere.
388 Determine What QuickFix Fixes Setting Preferences Figure 415 Glossary files location Nisus Writer Pro makes any file of a type “.ngloss” inside this folder available to use the next time you restart the application. Add or remove an entry to or from a Nisus Writer Pro Glossary file Choose the menu command Nisus Writer Pro > Preferences… and click QuickFix at the top of the Preferences dialog. 2. Select a Glossary file to edit. 3. Click Edit Glossary.
Customizing & Automating Solutions 389 Create a new glossary abbreviation, or edit an existing abbreviation in an existing Glossary 1. 2. 3. Choose the menu command Nisus Writer Pro > Preferences… and click QuickFix at the top of the Preferences dialog. Click Edit Glossary. Edit the file following steps 5 through 9 as explained in “Create a new Glossary” on page 387. Import a Nisus Writer Classic Glossary file 1. 2. 3. 4.
390 Advanced Preferences Figure 416 The Advanced preferences of Nisus Writer Pro Setting Preferences
Customizing & Automating Solutions 391 Customize Your Toolbar In addition to the standard ability to move icons around on the Toolbar, Nisus Writer Pro comes with a number of icons that you can use to customize your Toolbar. You can also associate almost any Nisus Writer Pro command with an icon of your choosing and add that to the Toolbar. Change the Display of the Toolbar 1. 2. Choose the menu View > Toolbar > Customize Toolbar….
392 Customize Your Toolbar Setting Preferences Figure 418 The Add Custom Toolbar Item dialog with a custom icon added on the right edge 7. A new icon appears at the far left edge of the Toolbar. The Customize Toolbar sheet appears and you can drag the new icon to any position on the Toolbar you want as illustrated in Figure 419. The Add Custom Toolbar Item dialog reappears. This enables you to add more custom icons before you determine their location on the Toolbar.
Customizing & Automating Solutions ! 393 Beware, that if you assign an icon to a file on the Currently Open, Recently Opened or Recently Saved submenus of the menu File > Open from Document Manager, that file must appear on the list. You are probably best served by assigning such files to a special group such as “Current Projects” and linking the icon to the file’s name in that submenu. The Document Manager is explained in detail beginning on page 55.
394 Create Your Own Group of Palettes for the Tooldrawer Setting Preferences Figure 423 The Palette Library with an empty palette 4. Choose the menu command Window > Palette Library. 5. Drag the palette(s) you want from the Palette Library into the Tooldrawer. You can thereafter choose your custom palette group from the top of the Custom Palette Groups menu inside the Tooldrawer.
Customizing & Automating Solutions Save Preferences ▶ Your preferences are saved immediately as you create them. Nisus Writer Pro saves the Preferences file as you quit the application. Return All Preferences to Their Original (Shipped) Settings ▶ After quitting Nisus Writer Pro, find the file “com.nisus.NisusWriter.plist”. which is located in ~Library/Preferences/ and remove it from its folder.15 Figure 425 The location of the preferences file 15 You will likely find two files: com.nisus.
Macros, Skimming the Surface Macros automate repetitive tasks and combine in one “command name,” a whole collection of tasks you frequently perform. It is easy to combine the menu commands of Nisus Writer Pro into your own custom combinations. These combinations are called “Macros”. Consider each menu command in Nisus Writer Pro a “micro” command. Putting them together, creates a “macro.” This portion of the manual describes how to create, run, delete, and save simple macros.
398 Macros, Skimming the Surface This copies the macro file to your Macros folder. For more information see “Working with Macro Files” on page 399. Running Macros Nisus Writer Pro includes a number of ready made macro files. The are available on the Macro menu. Open (“load”) a macro file ▶ 1. 2.
Customizing & Automating Solutions 399 Undoing a Macro You can undo the effects of any macro, even the most complicated one, with a single Undo. Nisus Writer Pro combines all the actions of a macro into a single Undo command. However, undoing a macro won’t undo operations that are not undoable elsewhere in Nisus Writer Pro, such as closing or saving a file. Working with Macro Files Macros are stored as Nisus Writer Pro documents and have their own icon.
400 Macros, Skimming the Surface Writing an invalid command in a macro If you use a command that does not exist or you spell the name incorrectly, Nisus Writer Pro beeps and presents an alert informing you that the command does not exist. The alert identifies the line of the error and lets you choose to stop, continue or open the macro to edit it. Figure 426 The unknown macro command alert Menu commands sometimes have the same name but perform different actions and belong to different menus.
Macros, the Deeper Workings The Nisus Writer Pro Macro Language Writing macros is a form of programming. ! The Nisus Macro Reference is distributed in the download with the application and the User's Guide. It details all features of the macro language. You can learn more at . The Nisus Writer Pro macro language consists of various sets of instructions. Each individual macro is made up of a list of these instructions that run in sequence (from top to bottom).
402 The Nisus Writer Pro Macro Language Macros, the Deeper Workings Several other additional instructions, including • • • looping (while…) control (if…) variables are used in the Menu Command Dialect. The Menu Command Dialect does not currently support any calculations. Any calculations must be done in Perl blocks with the result returned to the Menu Command Dialect. Nonetheless, Nisus Writer Pro comes with a folder of calculation macros that you can use and study.
Customizing & Automating Solutions 403 Interpolated String Literals Special Text Replacement \n Newline character. \t Tab character. \\ Single backslash character (eg: "\"). \x The next two characters are treated as a Unicode code point (in hexadecimal). \u The next four characters are"treated as a"Unicode code point"(in hexadecimal). \U The next eight characters are"treated as a"Unicode code point"(in hexadecimal). $varName Current value of the named variable.
404 The Nisus Writer Pro Macro Language Macros, the Deeper Workings Flow of control Conditional branches Very simple conditionals are supported in the menu command dialect. The following is the if!construct: If expression1 code1 elsif expression2 code2 ... elsif expressionN codeN else codeFinal end Explained in English: If “expression1” is true, then do “code1”. If it is false (“elseif”) check to see if there is an “expression2” and possibly do “code2” (or some other task “expressionN”.
Customizing & Automating Solutions 405 # Reset the selection to the start of the document Select All Select Start # As long as we find note references, superscript them While Select Next Note Reference Format:Baseline:Superscript End The “if” Boolean test in the Menu Command dialect is limited to testing for integer values and strings, therefore a Perl block must be used when a While loop needs to test for a real (non-integer) numeric value, or when any arithmetic calculations need to be performed.
406 The Nisus Writer Pro Macro Language Macros, the Deeper Workings This is the complete path, starting with the disk name. User Property "macros folder path" This returns the full path to the folder where the user’s macros are stored (in their home directory). Current document values The following examples illustrate how to obtain the current document’s properties (that is, the document whose window is frontmost).
Customizing & Automating Solutions 407 This instruction returns the contents of the currently selected text (eg: for placement into a variable) as for example $my_text = Read Selection Write Selection text Currently this behaves exactly the same as Insert Attributed Text. In the future we may support replacing a multipart selection with a list variable. Right now it is offered merely for symmetry with Read Selection.
408 The Nisus Writer Pro Macro Language Macros, the Deeper Workings Returns the number of characters in the selection. Optionally takes a (1-based) index that specifies which selection's length to return. selection row index Returns the (1-based) row index of the first table selection. selection column index Returns the (1-based) column index of the first table selection. selection row count Returns the number of rows selected by the first table selection.
Customizing & Automating Solutions 409 message is displayed in the dialog in bold, as a title and the text in the details is placed in plain format, below the title. The texts in the defaultButton and otherButton are displayed as the respective button titles. Prompt Input message, [detail], [button], [defaultText] Displays a message to the user and allows them to type in some free-form text. This instruction returns the text that the user has entered.
410 The Nisus Writer Pro Macro Language Macros, the Deeper Workings End Just following the Begin Perl command of a Perl block (as illustrated above) you can specify Nisus Writer Directives the same way as in Nisus Express Perl macros. Each Perl block can have its own different such directives. These directives specify the!location from where to get the input and where to put the output.
Customizing & Automating Solutions 411 End The above macro block is used in the “Mortgage Payment Calculation” macro supplied. The following is the same block but adjusted to accept only alphabetic character strings with other conditions. Compared to the previous one, the first highlighted line is removed. The second highlighted line is simplified to check for alphabetic characters and white space characters. $not_done = 1 $name = 'Your Name' $prompt = "Enter your name please.
412 The Nisus Writer Pro Macro Language Macros, the Deeper Workings ▸Average Rows and Columns Place the insertion point in the first cell, that is the first row and the first column cell. Each row and each column of the table will be averaged, with the rows being averaged first. Each average will be placed in the last cell of each row and column respectively. That means that the last cell, the bottom right corner cell, will contain the average of all row averages.
Customizing & Automating Solutions ▸Sum Row ▸Sum Rows and Columns ▸Sum Selection 413 Sums the row of numbers starting at the current cell and places the result in the last cell of the row. Be sure to have a last empty cell in the row otherwise the last cell will be overwritten with the result. Its contents will not be summed. Place the insertion point in the first cell of the row to be added. Place the insertion point in the first cell, that is the first row and the first column cell.
414 The Nisus Writer Pro Macro Language Macros, the Deeper Workings ▸Create Word Frequency List (v2) Extracts a list of all non-common words from the selected text/ document and lists their frequency. ▸Create Word List (v4) Creates a word list in a new document ▸Install Default Macros This macro copies the default set of macros from the Nisus Writer Pro application bundle into the your local Macro folder. It also checks for old Nisus Writer Express perl macros and offers to trash them.
Customizing & Automating Solutions 415 You can bookmark all the results. The results are preceded by page number and line number. When the latter cannot be retrieved, the kind of text object is reported. ▸Find Ignoring Diacriticals Uses the current text of the Find/Replace window and finds matches ignoring Arabic diacritical marks. ▸Find in All Open Documents Uses the current contents and settings of the Find/Replace window and does a Find All in all open documents.
416 Writing Perl Scripts Macros, the Deeper Workings Writing Perl Scripts You can write your own macros using the well-known Perl script language. Perl is a very powerful scripting language, particularly for manipulating text. It includes the full power of Regular Expressions for finding and changing text based on patterns. Perhaps the most common form of a Macro simply reads each text line, modifies it where necessary and writes it back to where it came from.
Customizing & Automating Solutions 417 #source ( front | next | none | clipboard) This tells Nisus Writer Pro where to get the text that will be sent to the Perl Script. Choose one of the options, e.g. '#source front'. Front is the front document, next is the document behind the front document, none is no data and Clipboard is whatever text is on the Clipboard.
418 Writing AppleScripts Writing AppleScripts Using AppleScripts you can create little “stand alone” applications that you can use to take information from one “scriptable” program and manipulate it in a second one before passing it on to yet another. You can also create little applications that you can share with other Nisus Writer Pro users. AppleScripts are made up of AppleEvents. An AppleEvent is a single command such as Copy or Print; analogous to a Nisus Writer Pro macro command.
Customizing & Automating Solutions 419 Examples • tell application "Nisus Writer Pro" get text of document 1 end tell • tell application "Nisus Writer Pro" get character 3 of word 1 of paragraph 1 of text of document 1 end tell • tell application "Nisus Writer Pro" set word 1 of text of document 1 to "Modified Text" end tell • tell application "Nisus Writer Pro" set color of words 1 through 4 of text of document 1 to "green" end tell Nisus Writer Pro has a limitation when setting the text in th
Putting It All Together Nisus Writer Pro contains the tools for composing documents of any length. You may already use many of Nisus Writer Pro’s practical, time saving tools such as the spelling checker, Menu Keys, Drag and Drop, Unlimited Undos, to name a few. This part of the Nisus Writer Pro documentation offers you suggestions on how to integrate the capabilities of Nisus Writer Pro to get the most out of it.
422 Nisus Writer Pro and the Community of Connected Applications What applications support LinkBack LinkBack is included in a number of fine applications. You can learn the current state of development at: • Goals and non-goals The goals of the LinkBack framework are • To enable applications to share data with one another, maintaining a link to the originating application so that you can edit the data or have it refreshed.
Putting It All Together 423 Remove an Inserted Link 1. 2. 3. Press 6. Point your insertion point to the hyperlinked text and click your mouse button or trackpad. Choose Remove Link from the contextual menu that appears. Edit an Inserted Link 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Press 6. Point your insertion point to the hyperlinked text and click your mouse button or trackpad. Choose Edit Link… from the contextual menu that appears. Modify the URL to which you want to have the text refer.
424 Nisus Writer Pro and the Community of Connected Applications email: Please see attached: FileName Address your email message and add whatever other information you want to the email and send it. Standardizing Your Correspondence Stationery You can give all your stationery a unified look without ordering it from an outside source. Create your own stationery file with your letterhead. ▶ • • • ▶ ▶ Insert a header in your stationery file.
Putting It All Together 425 Figure 428 An Addressed Envelope 6. 7. Put your insertion point the body portion of the document window and drag the ruler in to the right as desired (as illustrated in the envelope above). Save the file as a template document, choose the menu command File > Save As…. Figure 429 Saving an envelope template 8. 9. Type your recipient's address in the body of the document. Put an envelope in the printer tray and choose the menu command File > Print….
Afterword If you have any thoughts about how we can make Nisus Writer Pro even better in the future, we welcome your ideas. Send Feedback to Nisus Software Inc. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Choose the menu command Help > Send Feedback…. Choose the kind of feedback you want to send from the pop-up menu at the top of the dialog. Report a Crash, some Unexpected Behavior, or Performance, or submit a Feature Request. Describe the issue in the area provided.
428 Send Feedback to Nisus Software Inc. Figure 431 The Nisus Writer Pro Feedback dialog On the odd chance that you are not connected to the internet at the time you want to send your feedback, the alert in appears. Please take notes that describe what happened and, when you do get connectivity, please send your comments. Figure 432 The “Not Connected” alerts May All Your Writing “nisus” Be a Pleasure with Nisus Writer Pro The dedicated group of people at Nisus Software Inc.
Appendices Appendix I The Nisus Writer Pro Menus For reference, this section gives a brief description of every menu command in Nisus Writer Pro. Details on how to use the commands in conjunction with one another to accomplish tasks appear in later sections of the manual. It is structured by the order of the menus on the Menu Bar; the commands in the Nisus Writer Pro menu are discussed first, then those in the File, and so forth. Nisus Writer Pro menu .......................................................
430 File menu The Nisus Writer Pro Menus Quit Nisus Writer Pro Quits the application. Depending on how you set your preference in the General preferences of Nisus Writer Pro, you can have all windows open on quitting opened again when you start the application. File menu Choose commands from the File menu to open, save, and print documents in Nisus Writer Pro. New Opens a new, untitled document. Open… Opens an existing, saved document for on-screen reading and/or editing.
Appendices 431 ▸Recently Saved ▸Style Library ▸Templates Lists those files that were saved. The number of files is determined by that set in the General Preferences; Keep x documents in Open Recent menu. Lists the Style Library files you have created. Each collection in the Style Library has a file on disk that stores the relevant styles. Lists all those files the you have added to it. It always lists the Nisus New File.
432 Edit menu The Nisus Writer Pro Menus Edit menu Undo Reverses the effect of the last action made in the current editing session. Choose Undo repeatedly to step back through all changes made in the active window. Redo Undo an Undo. Choose Redo repeatedly to redo all recent Undos until the Undo list is empty. Cut ▸Cut ▸Append Cut Removes the current selection and inserts it in the current Clipboard, replacing whatever was in the Clipboard.
Appendices 433 the very end of a paragraph the command selects the paragraph behind the insertion point. ▸Invert Selection Selects everything that is not selected, an excellent way to find everything that is not “x”. ▸Previous Selection Moves your insertion point to its previous selection. If it was a location and not a selection Nisus Writer Pro flashes the line with the color set for Flash Selection in the Appearance preferences.
434 Edit menu The Nisus Writer Pro Menus ▸From Unicode Code Points Changes the character displayed from its Unicode codespace; to its appropriate linguistic glyph. Sort Paragraphs Choose commands from the Sort Paragraphs submenu to quickly change the sequence of selected paragraphs. A paragraph is any text that ends with a Return character. ▸Ascending (A-Z) Changes the sequence so that selected paragraphs ascend from A Z and from 1 - “x”.
Appendices 435 windoid with the list of words the dictionary suggests as replacements. Pressing < replaces that word with the top word in the list. Pressing an arrow key replaces it with the next (and continuing) word in the list. ▸Forget Spelling Removes the selected word to the System User Dictionary. This command toggles with Learn Spelling depending on the state of the word selected. ▸Learn Spelling Adds the selected word to the System User Dictionary.
436 Edit menu The Nisus Writer Pro Menus Point Dagesh Or Mapiq, Point Meteg, Point Rafe, Point Shin Dot, Point Sin Dot, Vowel Point Hataf Patah, Vowel Point Hataf Segol, Vowel Point Hiriq, Vowel Point Holam, Vowel Point Patah, Vowel Point Qamatz, Vowel Point Qubutz, Vowel Point Segol, Vowel Point Sheva, Vowel Point Tsere, Accent Darga, Accent Dehi, Accent Etnahta, Accent Geresh, Accent Geresh Muqdam, Accent Gershayim, Accent Iluy, Accent Mahapakh, Accent Merkah, Accent Merkah Kefula, Accent Munah, Accent
Appendices 437 Insert menu Use the Insert menu to add objects (images, etc.), formatting elements (page and column breaks, sections, etc.) and numbering variables, footnotes and/or endnotes, tables of contents, indexes, images and hypertext links to your document. Details of the total physical pages of this file, the date it was last saved and printed (as a PDF) are at the bottom of the page with copyright information.
438 Insert menu ▸Same Page The Nisus Writer Pro Menus A new section begins at the insertion point on the current page. Automatic Number Choose commands from the Automatic Number submenu to insert into your document numbers that automatically increment and sort. ▸Page Number Inserts the number of the current page (of the current section) at the insertion point in the active window. ▸Pages in Document Inserts the total number of pages in the document at the insertion point in the active window.
Appendices 439 It does not display the previous time the file was printed. This updates every time you print the file. ▸Custom Date & Time… Displays a sheet enabling you to customize date and time formats. ▸Configure Date & Time Formats… Displays a sheet that enables you to access and customize the date and time formats portion of the System Preferences. Document Property Choose commands from the Document Property submenu to insert various bits of meta-information about your file.
440 Insert menu Endnote The Nisus Writer Pro Menus Inserts an endnote at the location of the insertion point. Endnotes are explained in detail beginning on page 190. Hyperlink Use the commands in the Hyperlink submenu to add edit and remove hyperlinks from your document. ▸Add Link… Displays a sheet that enables you to enter a URL and the clickable text to insert in your document. If a URL is on the active Clipboard that URL appears in the Link destination field.
Appendices 441 Zoom Choose commands from the menu View > Zoom to display your document at various preset percentages 800%, 400%, 200%, 125%, 100%, 75%, 50%, or 25%; to set your own percentage (Other…). In addition… ▸Show Text Width Shows the maximum width of the text of your document in Page View, hiding the margins. ▸Show Page Width Shows the maximum width of your document in Page View. ▸Show Entire Page Shows the entire width and height of your document in Page View.
442 View menu The Nisus Writer Pro Menus Go to Note (Text/Reference) When a footnote or endnote reference marker is selected this moves your insertion point to the associated note text and selects it. When in the note text, it moves your insertion point to select the footnote/endnote reference marker. Page Guides Choose commands from the menu View > Page Guides to affect the functioning and display of page guides.
Appendices 443 Format menu Choose commands from the Format menu to alter the display of text of your document. Using styles to format your documents is explained in detail beginning on page 95. Remove Attributes Except Styles Removes all formatting, except “language” from selected text except for applied Styles. Remove Attributes and Styles Removes all formatting (both character and paragraph, but not “List” styles and not language) from selected text and applies the “Normal” style to the selection.
444 Format menu The Nisus Writer Pro Menus ▸Redefine Style From Selection When applied to a selection the attributes of which are controlled by a style sheet, any modifications to the attributes are applied to all text with that style applied. ▸Remove Style Removes the Paragraph Style that matches that of the selection. When in the Find/Replace window this command displays as Any Paragraph Style.
Appendices 445 does not match one you have added to your copy of Nisus Writer Pro, that Language name appears at the bottom of the Language submenu. “Language” is an attribute of your text, not the document. If done correctly, changing the language of a part of the text changes the input method (keyboard), dictionary and/or thesaurus (if available) and font (if appropriate).
446 Format menu ▸Shadow Size The Nisus Writer Pro Menus Displays selected text with a shadow you can customize in the Font panel (opened by choosing the menu command Format > Font > Show Fonts). Choose a point size from the Size submenu to apply that size to the current selection. If you have text selected, Nisus Writer Pro applies the size change at the insertion point, and as you type, the text displays in the size you have chosen.
Appendices 447 ▸Show Underline Colors Opens the Colors panel enabling you to set the color of the Underline. Strikethrough Choose commands from the menu Format > Strikethrough to apply and/or remove various strikethrough attributes to or from selected text. ▸None Removes any and all Strikethrough attributes from selected text whether the strikethrough is part of the style’s definition as set in the Style Sheet view or applied in addition to the style.
448 Format menu The Nisus Writer Pro Menus Kern Choose commands from the Kern menu to cause selected text to be squeezed closer or spread further apart. Kerning affects the space to the right of the character(s) selected. ▸Use None Removes any squeezing or spreading of selected text (unless some other baseline attribute has been added i.e. based on a style defined in Style Sheet view). ▸Remove Kern Attribute Removes any squeezing or spreading of text.
Appendices 449 ▸Show Paragraph Shading Palette Opens the Paragraph Shading palette so you can add and modify shading of selected paragraphs. Paragraph Spacing Choose commands from the Paragraph Spacing submenu to cause lines of selected text to spread themselves vertically in various ways. Line height, known to typesetters as leading (because of the pieces of lead placed between the lines of type) refers to the vertical distance between the top of one line and the top of the following line.
450 Format menu The Nisus Writer Pro Menus intervals, whether the ruler displays inches or any other measurement option. ▸Decrease Right/left Indent Depending on whether the selected paragraph(s) are left to right or right to left, decreases the right or left indent by quarter-inch intervals, whether the ruler displays inches or any other measurement option. ▸Remove Tab Stops Removes all tab stops on the ruler.
Appendices 451 ▸Remove Text Color ▸Show Text Colors Removes any text color present in selected text. When in the Find/Replace window this command displays as Any Text Color. In this instance it functions the same as having the Attribute Sensitive checkbox unchecked (for that particular attribute). Opens the Colors panel enabling you to change the color of selected text to any color you can point to.
452 Table menu The Nisus Writer Pro Menus ▸Sort By Selected Column Ascending (A-Z) Sorts rows so that the lowest value appears at the top and highest at the bottom. ▸Sort By Selected Column Descending (Z-A) Sorts rows so that the highest value appears at the top and lowest at the bottom. ▸Reverse Reverses the sequence of selected rows so that the last appears first, etc. ▸Randomize (shuffle) Changes the sequence so that selected rows appear in a random shuffle. Merge Cells Merges selected cells.
Appendices 453 ▸Go to Previous Comment Moves your insertion point to the previous comment in your document, scrolls the document to display that page and highlights the commented text. ▸Collapse Comments Collapses the current comment. ▸Collapse All Comments Collapses all comments in the document. ▸Expand Comments Expands the current comment. ▸Expand All Comments Expands all comments in the document.
454 Tools menu The Nisus Writer Pro Menus highlighted (in the text), and will be inserted when you choose Insert TOC. The active Table of Contents is the one to which text will be included when you choose one of the various levels of the submenu Include in TOC. Index Choose commands from the Index submenu to mark text for, and to create an index of and for your document. Indexing is explained in detail beginning on page 238. ▸Index Marks the selected text for inclusion in an index.
Appendices 455 “automatic content” to become “stale”. This command forces the application to update all such information in the selection. ▸Automatic Content Update Preferences… Opens a dialog that lets you determine how frequently automatic content is updated and whether or not stale content has a highlight, as well as set the color of that highlight. ▸Convert to Fixed Content Converts selected automatic content to normal text.
456 Tools menu The Nisus Writer Pro Menus ▸Group Shapes ▸Ungroup Shapes Causes selected shapes to be affected as if they were one unit. Causes grouped shapes to revert to their ungrouped state so they can be manipulated individually. ▸Duplicate Shape… Displays a sheet that enables you to determine a variety of aspects of how a selected shape should duplicate. ▸Copy Shape Appearance Copies, with certain exceptions, the attributes associated with the selected shape.
Appendices 457 the menu command Tools > Shape Metrics > Set Adjustment Amounts…. ▸Decrease Width Decreases the width of selected shapes by the number of points designated in the Adjustment Settings dialog opened by choosing the menu command Tools > Shape Metrics > Set Adjustment Amounts…. ▸Increase Height Increases the height of selected shapes by the number of points designated in the Adjustment Settings dialog opened by choosing the menu command Tools > Shape Metrics > Set Adjustment Amounts….
458 Tools menu The Nisus Writer Pro Menus shape. These are the same line options that are available in the Style pop-up menu in the Table Cell Borders palette as well as all other locations where you can define a line in Nisus Writer Pro. The options range from None to Hairline, ½ pt, ¾pt, 1 pt, 1½ pt, 2 pt, 3 pt, 4 pt, 5 pt, 6 pt, 7 pt, and 8 pt. ▸Arrowheads Choose patterns from the menu Tools > Shape Stroke > Arrowheads to select from a wide variety of arrowheads available.
Appendices 459 Minimize This has the same effect as clicking the Minimize (amber) button, it sends the window to the Dock. Zoom This has the same effect as clicking the Zoom (green) button, it alternates between the full height and width of the window and its previous display size. The fully zoomed size differs depending on whether you use Draft or Page View. Palettes Choose commands from the Palettes submenu to manage your Nisus Writer Pro palettes.
Appendix II Glossary of Useful Terms This document uses a number of terms that either may not be familiar to the “casual” user or are used in a technical way unique to word processing. We offer a small glossary of terms here . If you encounter other words that you believe should be included, please send them to
462 Glossary of Useful Terms by the following steps: 1. Nisus Writer Pro counts the words in the entire document. Contractions, hyphenated words and numbers (such as dates and dollar amounts, etc.) are each counted as one word. 2. Nisus Writer Pro then computes the average sentence length, where colons, semicolons, and newline characters are not considered to terminate/delimit a sentence. 3. Nisus Writer Pro counts the syllables in the entire document.
Appendices 463 gzip A widely supported compression/archive format. The new "Nisus Compressed Rich Text" format (file extension “zrtf”) is a way to reduce the size of files that NWP saves. It’s basically the normal Nisus Writer Pro RTF, zipped, and saved to disk. No other application will understands this, but it reduces file sizes by a large amount. However, in a pinch a user can rename a file from "whatever.zrtf" to "whatever.rtf.
464 Glossary of Useful Terms Nisus Writer Classic format decided what encoding to use based on the font you applied. If your font is not available in the new System, Nisus Writer Pro tries to guess. Sometimes it works, a lot of times it doesn’t. On OS X, fonts sometimes don’t show up or work as they did in OS 9. This is the primary reason people see garbage text when they try to open Classic files. Unicode, on the other hand is much better. The number 65 always means capital “A” for example no matter what.
Appendix III Displaying Fonts and Text About Displaying Fonts To display your text, Unicode or not, Nisus Writer Pro must know how to draw the letters on the screen. A “font” tells Nisus Writer Pro how to do this. A font contains drawing instructions for various letters and combinations of letters. These are called “glyphs”. It also contains information on how to map letters of text to glyphs.
466 Displaying Fonts and Text The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. How razorback-jumping frogs can level six-piqued gymnasts! With a monospaced font (9 point Courier) The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. How razorback-jumping frogs can level six-piqued gymnasts! • Type @ only to line up columns, not to begin a paragraph with an indentation. If you want an indent at a new paragraph you use the first line indent indicator on the ruler.
Appendices 467 Enter a character using the keyboard Most of the unusual (Roman based) characters are made by pressing a combination of a key on the keyboard and a “modifier” key such as 4. For example, you can also create the symbol “§” 4 then the 6 as illustrated in Figure 434 below, in the small application called Keyboard Viewer which is available from the bottom of the Input (keyboard) menu) if you have turned it on. Other unusual characters are called delayed strike characters.
468 Displaying Fonts and Text Table 32 below identifies many of these alphabetic characters and how you create them. Typing Special (Extended Roman) Characters To type: press à, è, ì, ò, ù Accent Grave 4 ` and then the letter. À, È, Ì, Ò, Ù UPPERCASE Accent Grave 4 `, 1 and then the letter. á, é, í, ó ú Accent Acute 4 e and then the letter. Á, É, Í, Ó Ú UPPERCASE Accent Acute 4 e, 1 and then the letter. â, ê, î, ô, û Circumflex 4 6 and then the letter.
Appendices 469 Type “special” Yiddish characters • 1. 2. • 1. 2. • 1. 2. • 1. 2. • “Veis” ("- the Vet with an “overline” which appears at the beginning of a word) Type the vet ב Type the “overline” which appears under the “Delete” key . “Fay” (.- the Pey with an “overline” which appears at the beginning of a word) Type the pey . Type the “overline” which appears under the “Delete” key . “"irik Yod” ( יwith a dot under it) Type the Yod $.
470 Displaying Fonts and Text Figure 437 Option-modified Hebrew- QWERTY keyboard Set up language support on your Macintosh You can learn more about Unicode and its implementation in Mac OS X from these very old resources • • • • • • What is Unicode? Two Bytes of the Cherry Unicode and Mac OS X (by Matt Neuburg) Michael Everson develops fonts
Appendices 471 Enter Unicode text All text in Nisus Writer Pro is Unicode. You can enter any Unicode character at the insertion point in your document. 1. Choose the menu command Special Characters > Show Character Catalog… at the bottom of the Edit menu. Figure 438 The System’s Characters palette 2. 3. 4. Choose All Characters from the View pop-up menu at the top of the window (when the Toolbar is visible).
Appendix IV From Nisus Writer Classic to Nisus Writer Pro The Nisus Men of the Past In January of 1989, twenty years ago, Nisus Software Inc. (then under the name Paragon Concepts Inc.) released the first version of Nisus (The Amazing Word Processor). It truly was amazing with features that all current word processors and the Mac OS have finally begun to implement.
474 From Nisus Writer Classic to Nisus Writer Pro Open a Nisus Writer Classic Document with a Table You can open Nisus Writer Classic documents in Nisus Writer Pro. Those files that have tables in them will open with their “Nisus Table Tool” tables converted to Nisus Writer Pro tables. ▶ Drag your Nisus Writer Classic file onto the Nisus Writer Pro icon in the Dock. ! The vast majority of attributes of the Nisus Table Tool tables convert to Nisus Writer Pro tables.
Indexes Subject Index Symbols (monetary & etc.
476 Subject Index border page, 131–133 pleading page, 281 paragraph, 286–290 shape, 178 table, 209 table cell, 210–213 bottom alignment note reference divider line, 193 of floating images, 159 text in tables, 199 lines in tables, 211 margin, 128 bounding box of grouped shapes, 178 of lines, 161 shapes and images, 158 bring to front shapes, 175 Broken Bar, 24 Bulgarian, searching for text in, 309 bullet in the Window menu, 458 in this User's Guide, ii in Window menu, 352 lists, 42–44 cross-reference to, 22
Indexes splitting, 203 line between, 130 per section, 189 prevent text from breaking across, 20, 84, 448 rectangular selection, 36 selecting text in, 36 set number of in section, 130 swapping macro, 245 using tabs to align, 85–86 using tabs to create, 466 when visible, 276 comment, 327–330, 337–338 add to existing, 337 color of, 378 display particular author's, 338 fade in on approach, 332 hide, 330 highlight in text, 330 history, 329, 331 in macros, 401 location of pane, 332 minimize pane, 335 number of in
478 Subject Index folder default location of, 54 set location of, 58 macros with, 406 maintain a style library using, 95, 107, 109–110, 114 managing files using, 53 move file to, 59 open files using, 1–2, 71 open from Dock menu, 7 Window menu, 8 preferences of, 58 save files as needed to, 59 automatically to, 53–54, 59, 367, 370 with new name to, 59 see preview of file in, 70 set file listing options of, 58 show on launch/activation, 366 Spotlight with, 65 Style Library commands, 437 using custom Toolbar
Indexes 479 statistics (word, character, etc.
480 Subject Index decimals in tables, 200 in Find/Replace, 310 null character, 318 printing, 360 Show Invisibles as an aid to typing, 33 available in Find/Replace, 292 color customizable, 372 saved with file, 371 iroha, 46 J Japanese numbering, 46 Japanese, searching for text in, 309 Jawi, 27 JB5 (paper size), 124 JPEG, 149 justify text, 80, 82 in tables, 199 K Kanji, 46 numbering, 46 searching for text in, 308 Katakana, 46 keyboard creating PowerFind Pro expressions, 301, 318 enter invisible characters
Indexes 481 Lists palette, location of, 17 sorting, 282 styles, 41 in Style Sheet view, 98–99 modify, 48 Paragraph styles override, 100 remove formatting, 283 supplied, 45 lowercase, 313.
482 Subject Index commands explained, 450 in styles, 103 note in cross-reference, 224 of characters, 269 columns permitted, 130 indexes permitted, 248 keys permitted in menu commands, 383 paragraphs, 269 section, 189 tables of contents permitted, 232 tabs permitted, 86 words, 269 page in cross-reference, 223 pages all, 136 display current and total, 142 displayed in the Page palette, 20 displayed on the Statusbar, 13 even, 137 format of, 143 in cross-reference, 223–224 in document, 141 in index, 249 in se
Indexes Paragraph Mark, 24 paragraph numbers printing, 279 Paragraph Shading palette, 287, 289 Pashtun, typing right to left text, 27, 32 paste, 39 attributes only, 40 formatted text, 41 graphics, 139, 148 in dialog boxes, 10 in Find/Replace window, 308 in Glossaries, 387–388 in tables, 197 ruler, 432 swap paste, 39 tables, 215 text only, 39 text with attributes, conflicts, 106, 367 using LinkBack, 421 .
484 macro from menu, 398 page breaks, 314, 322 page guides, 374 palette from Tooldrawer, 16 palettes, 393 preferences file, 395 records in merge, 357 saved colors from the Colors panel, 290 section divider, 142 selected text, 39 style attributes from text, 283 tab indicator, 89 table from document, 215 table of contents from document, 230 trailing spaces, 323 typo from QuickFix, 387 replace Find/Replace.
Indexes rotate, 181 select next, 175 selection mode, 174 send to back, 175, 177 sequence of, 177 set preferred appearance of, 183 shadow, 179 shadow of, 179 text wrap, 160 text wrap around, 161 ungroup, 175, 178 Shapes palette, 174 Sheqel, 24 Simplified Chinese, searching for text in, 309 slash (/) in To Capitalized, 291 smart quote, 24, 291, 386 soft hyphen, 24, 268 sort paragraphs, 282 rows of a table, 201 Spaces insert various, 24 spacing, 82 Special Characters, 25–26 spelling, 261–265, 267 alternate dic
486 leader, 87 templates, 1, 115 text and callout box, 168 add captions to images, 170 adding caption to, 170 adding to the document, 167 enter text, 167 expand button, 166 link button, 166 linking boxes, 169 text and callout boxes, 166 general rules, 166 text box.
Commands & Screen Messages Symbols ^ 322–323 \(([^(]|\n)+\) 323 [^[:alpha:]_] 321 [^[:alpha:]] -PAGE^[[:alpha:]]+ -PAGE[^\s]* 324 [^\t]+\t 322 [^a-z] 322 [^abc] 322 [[^abc]||[\n]] 322 26, 26, 66, 106, 130, 221, 249, 271, 318, 322, 328, 387, 412 ‐ 435 ‑ 435 ‒ 435 – 435 — 435 ― 435 ⁓ 435 , 46 != 404 ? 323 ?? 323 ?) 320 » 16 ( 318, 320, 320, 323–324 (?: 320, 323 (”)(\.|,) 324 ([;])(["”]) 323 (["”])([.,]) 323 ) 46, 318, 320, 323–324 [ 319, 322 [^!-~] 322 [^] -PAGE[^∑] 322 ["“].
488 Add Add Add Add Add Add Add Add Add Add Add Add Add Group 63–65 Item 391 Link to Bookmark… 225 Link to File… 2, 225, 440 Link… 440 Macro to Menu from File… 398 Macro to Menu From File… 458 new entries and remove stale entries -PAGEor Remove Blank Lines 415 Pasted Styles 107 pasted styles to the destination document 118, 367 styles to a new style collection 108 styles to an existing style collection 111 Add Tab Stop… 86, 450 Add to Document Manager 61, 109, 431 Add to Favorites 445 Additional Index As…
Indexes 489 Blue 450–451, 458–458 Blur 179 bold 239–240 Bold 18, 99, 119, 283, 363, 400–402, 406, 445 Bookends 251–254 Bookmark 222–223, 234, 440 Bookmark As… 440 Bookmark Name 217 Bookmark… 440 Bookmarked 380 Bookmarked (autoname) 380 Bookmarked Text 223, 234 Bookmarks 217, 220–-PAGE-, 440 Bottom 128, 180, 193, 199, 452 Bottom Edge 288 Bottom of Page 192 Box (Checked) ჲ -PAGEBox (Xed) ჳ -PAGEBox -PAGEBrace Pair 456 Bracket Pair 456 Bring All to Front 459 Bring to Font 157 Bring to Front 456, 177, 455 Br
490 Commands & Screen Messages Custom Property 439 Customizable Color 381 Customizable Colors 373–374, 376 Customize Special Characters… 25–26, 436 Customize Toolbar… 391, 441 Cut 39–40, 144, 215, 230, 245, 432 Cyan 450–451, 458–458 Cyrillic 370 Cyrillic (ISO 8859-5) 370 Czech/Slovak 386 D Dagger † 436 Dark Blue 458–451, 458–458 Dark Gray 458–451, 458–458 Dark Green 458–451, 458–458 Dark Red 458–451, 458–458 Dashed(---) -PAGE-, -PAGE-, -PAGEDashes and Hyphens 24, 268, 435 date and time 118 Date and Time
Indexes 491 122–123, 125–126, 143, 251, 270–271, 352, 355–356, 359, 361, 363, 368, 371, 391, 393, 399, 423–425, 429–430, 439, 461 File Format 116, 123, 316, 355, 399, 423 File Formats 370 File Name 65, 439 File name template 357 File Name with Extension 439 File Path 439 File Size 65 File Size (in Bytes) 439 File Size (in Kilobytes) 439 File Size (in Megabytes) 439 File Size, largest first 66 File Size, smallest first 66 File Type 65 Filename 69 Find 57, 253, 278, 292–293, 303–304, 315, 415, 434 Find & re
492 Commands & Screen Messages Horizontal 161, 289 Horizontal Offset 363 Horizontal Ruler 11, 441 HTML 54, 423, 430 huge size 377 Hungarian 386 Hyperlink 225, 440 Hyperlink to target when saved as PDF.
Indexes 493 Invisibles 373, 380 Invisibles & Guides 373–374, -PAGEInvisibles color 373 InYijingHexagramSymbols 309 InYiRadicals 309 InYiSyllables 309 Is Exactly 66 italic 239–240 Italic 18, 99, 119, 283, 363, 445 J Japanese 370, 473 Japanese (EUC) 370 Japanese (ISO 2022-JP) 370 Japanese (Shift-JIS) 370 Japanese (Windows, DOS) 370 Job Title 354 Join Files 415 Justified 199–200, 452 Justify Fully Arabic 415 Justify Fully Arabic (remove kashidas) 415 Justify Fully English 415 Justify Fully English (remove s
494 Commands & Screen Messages Name Ascending (A-Z) 66 Name Descending (Z-A) 66 Name Suffix 354 Name Title 354 Natural Writing Direction 448 Navigator 217, 220, 228, 441 Navigator Background 379 Navigator pane font 377 New 1, 71, 73, 115, 122–123, 143, 232, 248, 371, 382, 430 New New New New New Character Style… 443 Clipboard… 435 Document 262 Document With Selection 421, 429 File 102, 120–121, 123, 283, 371, New New New New New New New Glossary 387 List Style… 450 Macro 399, 458 Palette Group… 393 Pa
Indexes 495 Play a sound whenever a file is saved 368 plus 27, 65 Plus 227, 227–26, 63, 66, 227, 103, 130, 227, 249, 271, 337, 387 Plus/Minus 436 Point Dagesh Or Mapiq 436 Point Meteg 436 Point Rafe 436 Point Shin Dot 436 Point Sin Dot 436 Points (pt) 185, 88, 118, 185, 185, 441 Position on page of ¶ 149, 156 Position on Page of ¶ 174 Position on Ruler 180, 88 Pound 435 PowerFind 298–299, 304, 313, 315, 318, 414 PowerFind Browser 304 PowerFind Bubbles 378 PowerFind Commands 303–304 PowerFind Pro (regex)
496 Commands & Screen Messages Ruler Units 185, 88, 185, 185 Rulers 11, 381, -PAGERun Macro From File… 458 Run Selection As Macro 458 Run together all topic sub-entries on the same line.
Indexes Sign Takhallus 435 Simplified Chinese 370 Simplified Chinese (Windows, DOS) 370 Single 18, 93, 446–447, 449 Single Guillemet (Left Pointing) ‹ -PAGESingle Guillemet (Right Pointing) › -PAGESingle Plain Quote ' 436 Single Smart Quote (Close) ’ 436 Single Smart Quote (High Reversed 9) ‛ 436 Single Smart Quote (Low 9) ‚ 436 Single Smart Quote (Open) ‘ 436 Single Space Lines 449 Size 57, 92–93, 119, 446 Size Scaling 362 Skip This Version 429 Small Caps 18 small size 377 Smart fade out inactive changes
498 Commands & Screen Messages Update page numbers 230 Update Selected Stale Content 143, 270, 455 [[:upper:]] 321 Uppercase Alphabetical (A,B,C,D) 46 Uppercase Roman (I,II,III,IV) 46 Uppercase{} 313 UppercaseLetter 304, 321 Use All 284, 447 Use Default -PAGE-, 447 Use Default Baseline -PAGEUse Existing Styles 107 Use existing styles in the destination document 118, 367 Use Facing Pages -PAGE-, 137–138 Use None 284, 447–448, 450 Use paragraph style 247 Use Selected Shape Appearance As Default 157, 184, 4
Index of Figures and Tables The “0 or 1” PowerFind expression Figure 337 ---------------- 307 The “+” (plus) portion of the Languages Preferences Figure 28 ------------------- 29 The “1+” PowerFind expression Figure 339 ---------------- 307 The Accept Tracked Changes alert Figure 379 ---------------- 344 The Add Bookmark As sheet Figure 249 ---------------- 217 The Add Custom Toolbar Item dialog with a custom icon added on the right edge Figure 418 ---------------- 390 The Add License dialog Figure 7 -----
500 Index of Figures and Tables Comments of multiple authors displayed Figure 363 ---------------- 330 The Comments Options dialog Figure 361 ---------------- 329 Comments with text and graphic minimal opacity and Comments pane on the right Figure 366 ---------------- 333 The Configure Indexes dialog Figure 276 ---------------- 246 The Configure Indexes dialog with a new index style Figure 277 ---------------- 248 The Configure TOCs dialog Figure 262 ---------------- 231 The Configure TOCs dialog reconfig
Indexes 501 Floating image text wrap options Table 5 -------------------- 160 A font file icon Figure 97 ------------------- 90 The Font panel Figure 131 ---------------- 119 The “font substitution” alert Figure 96 ------------------- 90 The Footnote area of the Style Sheet in its shipped state Figure 218 ---------------- 192 The Footnote tag pop-up menu Figure 216 ---------------- 191 The Format portion of the New File preferences pane Figure 130 ---------------- 119 Full Screen view in a “retro” look Fi
502 Index of Figures and Tables The Macroize sheet in the Find/Replace window Figure 329 ---------------- 300 The “margins beyond the printer limits” dialog Figure 395 ---------------- 357 The Margins palette showing the header and footer heights and insets for the current section of this document Figure 145 ---------------- 128 The Margins palette showing the margins for the shipped Nisus New File Figure 144 ---------------- 128 Match the secondary font’s size to that of the primary font Figure 29 ------
Indexes 503 The Paragraph Shading palette Figure 313 ---------------- 289 A paragraph with a 5 pt border (yellow of Highlight color HTML EBFF64) & shading (yellow of background color HTML FFFF00; pattern set to 45% shading) padding set to 6 pt all around ........................................................ Figure 316 ---------------- 290 A paragraph with a border line thickness set to 5; (yellow of Highlight color HTML EBFF64) padding set to 6 pt all around, but no shading ............................
504 Index of Figures and Tables Setting the background and foreground colors Table 22 ------------------ 214 Setting the line Between Paragraphs Figure 312 ---------------- 288 Setting the margins visually Figure 143 ---------------- 127 The Shape Anchor: on the left, at the beginning of the paragraph and, to its right, at the end Figure 178 ---------------- 157 The Shape Bounding Box with shapes selected and text wrapped around the bounding box, wherever it is transparent, then text behind shape ........
Indexes 505 The Thickness pop-up menu of the Table Cell Borders palette Figure 244 ---------------- 212 Three change annotations showing text changes with the Reject button highlighted Figure 380 ---------------- 345 Tiger Keyboard Viewer of the U.S. Extended keyboard after pressing 4 Figure 434 ---------------- 465 Tiger Keyboard Viewer of the U.S.
