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G'day, Martin et al

Thanks for that, Martin.

No, I tried the inline button, but it would only place the image at the beginning or the end of the posting.

But at least it’s there now for people to comment on.

Cheers,
Adrian

G’day, Martin et al Sorry about the image’s failing to display. It did when I originally posted it. I have had a lot of difficulty trying to re-post it now. Hard to get it to appear only once, and in the correct position. I tried drag-and-drop, inline button, img tag, URL with and without attachment...

G'day, Martin et al Thanks for considering this, Martin. I had thought of having the Find/Replace window move out of the way of the found term, but things might get too distracting when (for example) rapidly repeating “Find Next” in some situations. Autoscrolling might work, but problems will arise ...

G’day, all I often find that the Find/Replace window obscures the view of a found result in the original document, necessitating movement and/or resizing of the Find/Replace window or of the actual document window. It’s a nuisance. It occurs to me that a relatively simple solution (at least, I hope ...

G’day, all For those (like myself) who may baulk at using the full Macro Language for such things, an easy and straightforward way to preserve selections during complicated Find/Replace operations is to use one or more Clipboards. Select your chunk of text (eg, tab-delimited columns) in the original...

G’day, janeverly et al

I can confirm your observed behavior. It appears to be a bug.

Cheers,
Adrian

G’day, Þorvarður et al I see that you are using the “S” option in the expectation that (as the Macro Language Reference implies) you will have something selected that the Sort command can work with. That doesn’t work for me, so I don’t know whether that’s a Nisus bug or just something I don’t unders...

G’day, wF et al And when you’ve finished all your sorting, you can, if you wish, reinstate the “Scene” appellation. On occasions, it can be useful to employ a little sorting trick that Nisus Writer makes very easy. The idea is to permute the order of substrings in a string, perform the sorting opera...

G’day, Kadah et al The following menu command may help in some cases:– Table > Sizing > Fit to Contents To the best of my knowledge, Tables as a whole can extend over more than one page, but individual rows cannot. Things you might try, in order to shoehorn a slab of text into a particular cell, inc...

G’day, seraphim et al A macro is a chunk of code that is executed like any other command in NWP’s hierarchical menu system. You generally call a macro from the Macro menu in the top menu bar of Nisus Writer Pro. Macros are available application-wide and not properties of individual documents per se....

G’day, seraphim, Þorvarður et al When performing Replace operations on multiple instances of an expression, it is crucial to know your document well, lest you end up replacing things inadvertently. In the present case, for example, Þorvarður’s solution will insert unwanted spaces in expressions such...

G’day, all First, if it absolutely has to be a black-bordered transparent box that is a widely accepted practice somewhere, I’d suggest investigating how others (with other word processors or desktop publishing software) go about it. That might offer some clue as to what one could do with Nisus Writ...

G’day, all Sad to relegate the deceased to a footnote, but…. Other ideas include:– (1) highlighting (2) raising or lowering the baseline (according to one’s religious persuasion perhaps) (3) conjoining an appropriate emoticon or pictograph (4) following the name with the conventional “ (d.)” (5) usi...

G’day, levelbest et al As you have discovered, drag-and-drop does not work, at least when you drag a PDF document directly into the usual workspace of a Nisus Writer document. However, if you first insert a Text Box (eg, from the Shapes Palette) into your Nisus Writer document, it is possible to dra...

G’day, Cliff et al I think these sound like two different problems. Since upgrading to Mojave, I have noticed frequent (but unpredictable) annoying intervals of keyboard unresponsiveness; however, it is not confined to Nisus Writer. The period of unresponsiveness resolves itself within (say) 5 secon...