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- 2024-05-17 14:46:53
- Forum: Nisus Writer Pro Macros
- Topic: Setting margins and page size of open document
- Replies: 3
- Views: 65
Re: Setting margins and page size of open document
G'day, Victor, Philip et al While there appear to be no commands in the Macro Language to achieve this, it may just be possible to have a Macro run AppleScript code that uses System Events to access and modify elements of the Page Setup dialog (for paper size) and the Margins Palette. Once you have ...
- 2024-05-06 18:50:05
- Forum: Nisus Writer Pro
- Topic: Hyphenation of words within quotation marks
- Replies: 5
- Views: 548
Re: Hyphenation of words within quotation marks
G'day, Xuanying et al Hyphenation is a fraught subject, exacerbated by our general preference in the post-typewriter era for fully-justified text. The larger the font size and the shorter the distance between the text margins, the greater is the probability of finding unsightly "white space&quo...
- 2024-05-03 13:19:53
- Forum: Nisus Writer Pro
- Topic: Main window looks strange
- Replies: 2
- Views: 195
Re: Main window looks strange
G'day, Auerhahn et al
What you're seeing is now the normal appearance. Not all of us are happy with it (myself included), so Martin says that users in future may be given a choice.
viewtopic.php?p=39022
Cheers,
Adrian
What you're seeing is now the normal appearance. Not all of us are happy with it (myself included), so Martin says that users in future may be given a choice.
viewtopic.php?p=39022
Cheers,
Adrian
- 2024-05-01 18:13:16
- Forum: Nisus Writer Pro
- Topic: Hyphenation of words within quotation marks
- Replies: 5
- Views: 548
Re: Hyphenation of words within quotation marks
G'day, Xuanying et al I don't think it's so much a question of where the quotation marks are, as it is of how the particular font handles the associated kerning. I performed the following experiment: I created two paragraphs, one with your text with the opening quotation mark and the other with your...
- 2024-04-11 04:44:51
- Forum: Nisus Writer Pro
- Topic: FR: make Unicode U+202F visible in Nisus Writer Pro
- Replies: 6
- Views: 805
Re: FR: make Unicode U+202F visible in Nisus Writer Pro
G'day, Eric et al Or you could use a similar technique, but without involving the neighbors, to find all occurrences of the special character and then color them, with either a background color or a highlight color. This could be done using the Replace mechanism if desired. If you prefer a monochrom...
- 2024-04-10 13:32:43
- Forum: Nisus Writer Pro
- Topic: FR: make Unicode U+202F visible in Nisus Writer Pro
- Replies: 6
- Views: 805
Re: FR: make Unicode U+202F visible in Nisus Writer Pro
G'day, Eric et al Pending that frabjous day, you can use the expression ".\U202F." (without the quotes) in the Find field of PowerFind Pro to locate instances of the character (sandwiched between its two neighboring characters) in your document. You can use a combining diacritical (such as...
- 2024-03-27 03:20:37
- Forum: Nisus Writer Pro Macros
- Topic: Document assembly
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1380
Re: Document assembly
G'day, Philip et al My cautionary remarks were meant to cover all automated gender changes, not just those using the Merge mechanism. The grammatical nuances will have to be considered at some stage, as indeed you have done in your choice of placeholders in your example document. Merge has other use...
- 2024-03-26 17:26:15
- Forum: Nisus Writer Pro Macros
- Topic: Document assembly
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1380
Re: Document assembly
G'day, all A brief note on automating gender changes might not go astray here. A problem arises because of ambiguity regarding the words "his" and "her". The same word could represent a possessive adjective or a possessive noun, and both parts of speech could occur in the same do...
- 2024-02-24 20:44:04
- Forum: Nisus Writer Pro
- Topic: Assign keyboard shortcut to non-standard highlight color?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1010
Re: Assign keyboard shortcut to non-standard highlight color?
G'day, Eric et al FFD700 star, Eric! It might be as well to remind/inform people also of the Digital Color Meter application in the Utilities folder. This allows you to get color code values for any color displayed on your screen, without having to extract the information from a screenshot. Cheers, ...
- 2024-02-19 13:46:19
- Forum: Nisus Writer Pro
- Topic: Assign keyboard shortcut to non-standard highlight color?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1010
Re: Assign keyboard shortcut to non-standard highlight color?
G'day, Eric et al
Sorry, I missed that it was the highlight coloring you wanted.
For those interested, the options are:–
Set Text Color
Set Background Color
Set Highlight Color
Set Underline Color
Set Strikethrough Color
Cheers,
Adrian
Sorry, I missed that it was the highlight coloring you wanted.
For those interested, the options are:–
Set Text Color
Set Background Color
Set Highlight Color
Set Underline Color
Set Strikethrough Color
Cheers,
Adrian
- 2024-02-19 12:28:07
- Forum: Nisus Writer Pro
- Topic: Assign keyboard shortcut to non-standard highlight color?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1010
Re: Assign keyboard shortcut to non-standard highlight color?
G'day, Eric et al
Create a Macro with the following commands and assign it a Keyboard Shortcut:–
Cheers,
Adrian
Create a Macro with the following commands and assign it a Keyboard Shortcut:–
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$tangerine = Color.newWithHexTriplet 'FF9300'
Set Text Color $tangerine
Adrian
- 2024-02-18 20:18:08
- Forum: Nisus Writer Pro
- Topic: Feature request: copy-paste (drag & drop) of short formatted text
- Replies: 1
- Views: 635
Re: Feature request: copy-paste (drag & drop) of short formatted text
G'day, Philip et al Sounds like a good idea. One way of doing it would be to do an ordinary Copy, position the insertion point at the desired Paste location, and then (instead of using one of the usual Paste variants) invoke a Macro such as this:– Copy Paragraph Formatting Paste Paste Paragraph Form...
- 2024-02-15 01:58:16
- Forum: Nisus Writer Pro
- Topic: drag and drop
- Replies: 4
- Views: 754
Re: drag and drop
G'day, ngazidja et al I'm glad the problem seems to be resolved. You say that TextEdit and Preview quit automatically when they have no windows open. This is the expected behavior of some things, such as System Information and System Settings (or its previous incarnation as System Preferences), but ...
- 2024-02-14 15:20:42
- Forum: Nisus Writer Pro
- Topic: drag and drop
- Replies: 4
- Views: 754
Re: drag and drop
G'day, ngazidja et al
I've just had to get the display replaced on my M1 MBP and the machine came back upgraded to Ventura.
Drag and drop to a different location within a Nisus document or to a Finder location (as a text clipping) works for me in NWP 3.4.
Cheers,
Adrian
I've just had to get the display replaced on my M1 MBP and the machine came back upgraded to Ventura.
Drag and drop to a different location within a Nisus document or to a Finder location (as a text clipping) works for me in NWP 3.4.
Cheers,
Adrian
- 2024-01-15 05:47:42
- Forum: The Blank Page
- Topic: +++ sigh +++
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1972
Re: +++ sigh +++
G'day, Philip et al Welcome to the clinic. No need to apologize. We've all been there. On the off chance that your question is not entirely rhetorical, perhaps I can be of some assistance. Once upon a time there was a Big Bang. A curious feature of this event was that insufficient light was generate...