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- 2004-11-14 11:00:27
- Forum: Nisus Writer Express
- Topic: Macro for e-mail style quotes
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7059
Just download SmartWrap http://www.selznick.com/products/smartwrap/mac/index.htm . I tried to write my own Perl macro, but this little program is so good and so flexible, it made more sense to spend the $18 on it. What the company's website doesn't tell you is that, once you've installed SmartWrap, ...
- 2004-11-14 10:42:46
- Forum: Nisus Writer Express
- Topic: inserting date/time
- Replies: 9
- Views: 8428
The Nisus-supplied macro pastes an ugly, unformatted date/time. Here's a little Perl script I wrote that formats it better. Modify to your heart's content: #Nisus Macro Block #destination clipboard #source none #Before Execution #Clipboard 1 #After Execution #Paste #Clipboard 0 #End Nisus Macro Bloc...
- 2004-11-14 09:18:52
- Forum: Nisus Writer Express
- Topic: Questions from a newbie
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6594
- 2004-11-14 08:48:02
- Forum: Nisus Writer Express
- Topic: Import WordPerfect lines
- Replies: 16
- Views: 11513
All I wanted to do was turn --- into -------------------------------------------- or ___ into __________________________________, but neither worked. That's the problem. Every time you type Return, QuickFix interprets the characters just to the left, and expands them. If you expand multiple dashes ...
- 2004-09-26 15:51:17
- Forum: Nisus Writer Express
- Topic: Zapf and Other DingBats
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4663
I think I like this system better. If I am writing something and I need a greek letter but there are no greek letters in the font I am currently using do I really want those greek letters to be labeled as being in a different style? If I change my document from Geneva to Times, do I really want to ...
- 2004-09-24 19:25:56
- Forum: Nisus Writer Express
- Topic: Zapf and Other DingBats
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4663
Zapf and Other DingBats
Nisus Writer’s handling of dingbat fonts (for example, Zapf Dingbats) is frustrating and inconsistent. Some OS X applications display dingbats, others don’t. According to Apple KnowledgeIndex Articles 106731 and 151626: “In a Unicode system, the special characters in the Symbol and Zapf Dingbats fon...
- 2004-09-24 19:22:44
- Forum: Nisus Writer Express
- Topic: Anomalies regarding spaces
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3699
Also, every operation involving Paste (or drag-and-drop or a macro script) adds a space to the end of the text--even if the text stands alone, with no surrounding text. This throws off alignment and requires the user to do a lot of annoying deleting. This is not an imposition of OS X, because other ...
- 2004-09-21 19:52:17
- Forum: Nisus Writer Express
- Topic: Style Sheets very buggy
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2777
Style Sheets very buggy
(1) Type a few paragraphs in any document. Apply List style to some paragraphs. Switch to Style Sheet view and add a tab stop to List style. Switch back to Page View, and click in any paragraph with List style. --The tab stops have not changed! Now apply List style to a paragraph that did not alread...
- 2004-04-27 22:50:24
- Forum: Nisus Writer Express
- Topic: RTF text to real RTF
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6149
charles wrote: >that you even HAD raw RTF to show like that! Where did it come from? I've written an OS X Applescript to take scraps of text (written in NWX or dragged and dropped or clipped or whatever) and concatenate them into a single NWX document. All the text appears fine after import, but RTF...
- 2004-04-27 10:07:04
- Forum: Nisus Writer Express
- Topic: RTF text to real RTF
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6149
- 2004-04-26 11:49:30
- Forum: Nisus Writer Express
- Topic: RTF text to real RTF
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6149
RTF text to real RTF
I have a text document displaying RTF codes. How do I force Nisus Writer Express to display it as RTF (interpreting all the code)? For example, paste the text below into a new NWX document. Save it as an RTF document, complete with .RTF extension. Close it and double-click on it. It still opens as t...
- 2004-03-07 21:15:16
- Forum: Nisus Writer Express
- Topic: Nisus Macro vs Applescript
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3939
Nisus Macro vs Applescript
I'm seeking an example of something that can be accomplished with a Nisus Menu Macro that cannot be accomplished with an Applescript. AppleScript can set the point size of text, tell Nisus Writer Express to open a new document, paste, etc. So what can AppleScript NOT do that requires a Nisus Menu Ma...