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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...

rmark wrote: In the new, ...free update (2.1): applying a paragraph style no longer removes character formatting.

Yes, but, unfortunately, applying a character style still removes all formatting from the selected text. This makes it impossible to apply a color as a style.

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

(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...

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...

This is truly weird. I never would have figured it out myself. Thanks, Charles.

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...

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...