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by xiamenese
2008-07-03 15:40:40
Forum: Nisus Writer Pro
Topic: Documents how to add and delete pages ?
Replies: 3
Views: 5150

Re: Documents how to add and delete pages ?

Turn on "Show Invisibles" in the View menu, and you will see that that empty page in fact contains at least one blank line ... you will see the end-of-paragraph mark(s). Just place your cursor immediately before the last of these and press the delete key the number of times until it goes b...
by xiamenese
2008-07-02 17:14:28
Forum: Nisus Writer Pro
Topic: Using umlauts with Chinese
Replies: 6
Views: 7811

Re: Using umlauts with Chinese

Thank you, xiamenese, that solves my problem perfectly. I wouldn't have thought to try 'v' otherwise. :) (Other than that, though, I haven't had any problems.) Glad to have helped. But I do seriously recommend you give QIM a try ... you can use it for free, but paying the USD20 brings you benefits ...
by xiamenese
2008-07-01 05:27:39
Forum: Nisus Writer Pro
Topic: Using umlauts with Chinese
Replies: 6
Views: 7811

Re: Using umlauts with Chinese

Standard pinyin, for ü vowels type v, ie lü enter as lv. lv = 绿 lu = 路 QED :wink: Mark Further suggestion added later: have a look at QIM with QIT. Much better than the Apple input system; works better, customisable, switching between simplified and traditional characters done within QIM, no need to...
by xiamenese
2008-06-30 05:52:35
Forum: Nisus Writer Pro
Topic: Disappearing images
Replies: 5
Views: 6410

Re: Disappearing images

Well I figured out what happened. Somehow the file was saved in the old RTF format. Apparently as long as I didn't exit from Nisus Writer the images were displayed but when I exited, the file was written without the images. How the file type changed I have no idea! After some searching in the docs ...
by xiamenese
2008-06-18 16:49:45
Forum: Nisus Writer Pro
Topic: Does this program read MS Word 1997 for IBM?
Replies: 5
Views: 5971

Re: Does this program read MS Word 1997 for IBM?

Yes, Word 95 and Excel 95 docs -- I was still getting files produced on those particular disaster areas very recently -- are always a problem. They are the prime reason why I still keep a copy of MacLink Plus around ... to handle legacy stuff like that.

Mark
by xiamenese
2008-06-15 00:17:03
Forum: Nisus Writer Pro
Topic: Borders?
Replies: 13
Views: 12578

Re: Borders?

Or put in a blank line, put a tab at the right margin, double click the tab set it to "right tab" and choose "Underline" as the leader ... you have a range of line formats to choose from. Then simply type a tab character in that paragraph.

Mark
by xiamenese
2008-06-14 04:45:13
Forum: Nisus Writer Pro
Topic: FAQs ...
Replies: 3
Views: 4598

FAQs ...

Martin, I'm putting this here 'cos I don't know where else to signal this. I noticed there was a new posting in the Nisus Writer Pro FAQ forum, so I went to have a look. What happened? A message saying "You do not have the permissions to enter this forum" ... ??? Can't read the FAQs in an ...
by xiamenese
2008-06-11 21:39:17
Forum: Nisus Writer Pro
Topic: Inverted quotes
Replies: 27
Views: 26060

Re: Inverted quotes

Then I'm stumped. I would still put my bet on the keyboard or keyboard software, though it's curious that it apparently only does it in NWP. Are you sure it doesn't happen in TextEdit, Bean or any of the other apps based on the Apple Text Engine (Word uses Microsoft's own proprietary text engine)? A...
by xiamenese
2008-06-11 07:38:15
Forum: Nisus Writer Pro
Topic: Inverted quotes
Replies: 27
Views: 26060

Re: Inverted quotes

I'm one who jumped, so I've been on 10.5, 10.5.1, 10.5.2 and 10.5.3 and I've never seen anything like that. I've just thought ... I don't think you've said what hardware you are using. You haven't had a "coffee moment" with your keyboard have you? The only other thing I can think of is tha...
by xiamenese
2008-06-10 08:38:48
Forum: Nisus Writer Pro
Topic: Inverted quotes
Replies: 27
Views: 26060

Re: Inverted quotes

Hmm ... by keyboard shortcut manager I meant anything like Quickeys, or Typeit4me, anything like that. As another possibility, when you're typing at speed, do you find you occasionally put a space after a word, a comma or other punctuation mark without thinking about it, and then put in the quote ma...
by xiamenese
2008-06-10 06:31:20
Forum: Nisus Writer Pro
Topic: Inverted quotes
Replies: 27
Views: 26060

Re: Inverted quotes

Looking at the example in your post, I thought you had a space between the comma and the ‘ but when I copied and pasted that stretch it seems not. 1) Does this also happen with double quotes? 2) How are you entering your quotes? With the ordinary key ' or with Alt-] and Shift-Alt-] ? 3) Have you don...
by xiamenese
2008-06-08 17:02:07
Forum: Nisus Writer Pro
Topic: superscript, subscript, and line spacing
Replies: 20
Views: 20646

Re: superscript, subscript, and line spacing

Mmm ... I don't care how Nisus chooses to achieve it either. If they find a way of associating super- and subscript calls to Unicode code points, that's great, or if they give us a way we can set a custom raised or lowered baseline on super- and subscripts as they have done with the Note Reference c...
by xiamenese
2008-06-08 00:27:59
Forum: Nisus Writer Pro
Topic: superscript, subscript, and line spacing
Replies: 20
Views: 20646

Re: superscript, subscript, and line spacing

Actually, I'm with you all the way. It would be wonderful if one didn't have to find work-arounds, but I'm not sure I've ever met an app where I haven't had to find one at some time or other. As I said in an earlier post, I think it would be great if Nisus can find a way of providing us with a way o...
by xiamenese
2008-06-07 18:15:29
Forum: Nisus Writer Pro
Topic: superscript, subscript, and line spacing
Replies: 20
Views: 20646

Re: superscript, subscript, and line spacing

I take your point fully about Fixed spacing then causing problems in other situations, like table-cells for graphics. In your position, I would use an alternative work-around which would be to leave the Normal style with Multiple spacing and create a new style called something like Body Text with Fi...
by xiamenese
2008-06-07 06:28:57
Forum: Nisus Writer Pro
Topic: Good-bye AW6
Replies: 13
Views: 14667

Re: Good-bye AW6

<snip> shades... I'm going to download Scrivener and give it a try. Great application ... doesn't suit everyone, but it's a great writing environment and it works very well with Scrivener and NWP. <snip> Mark... We will evaluate Bookends. Do you currently live in Xiamen? Lots of history with respec...