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- 2005-07-25 20:01:08
- Forum: Nisus Writer Express
- Topic: Macros in 2.5
- Replies: 21
- Views: 26108
Macros in 2.5
Just out of curiosity, have there been any changes to the macro capability in 2.5? I know in an earlier message, it was suggested that you want to make it work with all shell languages (Ruby, Python, etc.) as well as expanding the AppleScript dictionary. As I recall, the Perl macros didn't work comp...
- 2005-03-03 11:19:24
- Forum: Nisus Writer Express
- Topic: The best word processor on the market:
- Replies: 16
- Views: 20860
I'll be faintly contarian here and suggest not changing that behavior. :) The Home and End keys have historically always moved to the top and bottom of the document without moving the cursor position on the Mac, and while I know that's weird to people moving over from the PC, I've realized it's rath...
- 2005-02-12 18:40:49
- Forum: Nisus Writer Express
- Topic: The best word processor on the market:
- Replies: 16
- Views: 20860
Well, there's a program I use sometimes in conjunction with Express, called Hog Bay Notebook. It's sold as an outliner, but it's actually much more than that. Notebook's text editing features are essentially the same as Apple's TextEdit -- nothing extraordinary, but you get some nice basics for styl...
- 2005-02-10 16:45:21
- Forum: Nisus Writer Express
- Topic: The best word processor on the market:
- Replies: 16
- Views: 20860
Hm. Isn't it normal for Mac applications to use Home/End to just scroll to the top and bottom of the document without moving the cursor, and Option-Up/Option-Down to move the cursor there, too? I think those keys are used for by-paragraph movement, though, aren't they. I mildly miss having the abili...
- 2004-11-22 00:59:21
- Forum: Nisus Writer Express
- Topic: Style Issue
- Replies: 16
- Views: 22435
- 2004-11-22 00:24:16
- Forum: Nisus Writer Express
- Topic: Style Issue
- Replies: 16
- Views: 22435
- 2004-11-21 19:36:35
- Forum: Nisus Writer Express
- Topic: Style Issue
- Replies: 16
- Views: 22435
While I'm normally reticent to recommend X11-based software, if you're the sort who can deal with it, do take a look at Gnumeric as a free alternative to Excel. It's really surprisingly good. Mesa is pretty powerful, but it has a lot of usability quirks which are increasingly driving me nuts--things...
- 2004-11-14 22:49:51
- Forum: Nisus Writer Express
- Topic: TextExtras
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3850
TextExtras
TextExtras is a little freeware widget I found that adds some interesting features to any Cocoa text application, and it appears to work with Nisus Writer 2.1 just fine. (Add the requisite "this may crash your computer, destroy your hard drive and empty your cat's litter box over your dining ro...
- 2004-11-08 22:31:25
- Forum: Nisus Writer Express
- Topic: Suggestions: What would get me to leave Word...
- Replies: 6
- Views: 8961
- 2004-11-07 21:50:23
- Forum: Nisus Writer Express
- Topic: Check spelling as you type bug?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 9045
- 2004-10-30 00:19:47
- Forum: Nisus Writer Express
- Topic: New User Needing More Speed
- Replies: 7
- Views: 9017
I just did a little test with one of the longest documents I have (actually, that document repeated four times to make it longer!). According to the stats panel, it's 61,648 words, and in 12-point double-spaced Courier, is 360 pages. Scrolling this document from beginning to end took 3 minutes and 5...
- 2004-10-29 12:38:56
- Forum: Nisus Writer Express
- Topic: New User Needing More Speed
- Replies: 7
- Views: 9017
- 2004-10-28 22:49:28
- Forum: Nisus Writer Express
- Topic: Setting automatic indent after paragraph.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4509
You just do this by using the ruler. Drag the top half of the left margin pointer to where you want the first-line indent to be, or double-click the pointer to set it by numeric measurement. I don't know what you mean by the preference, exactly, but if you want that to be the default for paragraphs,...
- 2004-10-26 23:37:56
- Forum: Nisus Writer Express
- Topic: Suggestions: What would get me to leave Word...
- Replies: 6
- Views: 8961
While I'm sure you're probably working on some kind of internal outliner, have you considered adding OPML support along with that? Once NWX has the concept of outline levels, it'd be very easy to support that kind of import, which would work with most outliner programs -- and unless you got into som...
- 2004-10-05 22:16:13
- Forum: Nisus Writer Express
- Topic: No (easy) way to straighten quotes?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5529
No, I didn't, and I'm slightly sheepish that that works -- although I'd really like to have a menu command to do that (or do its reverse), or be able to write a macro. Otherwise, straightening quotes is a four-step process, or perhaps two-step if you use regular expressions. The question about wheth...