The QuickFix preference of Nisus Writer Pro can fix your typos as you type, it can turn on or off “Smart Punctuation” (including curly quotes) and it can automatically superscript ordinal numbers. Other common terms for QuickFix are text substitution, autocomplete and abbreviation expander.

You can have many different glossaries for different collections of abbreviations related to specific tasks. Note that in this context, “open” really means load (place its contents in the active memory of the computer).

QuickFix entries are per-language, they are stored along with all other Nisus Writer Pro language settings. You can edit this list in the Languages preferences.

This changes “1st, 2nd, etc.” to “1^st, 2^nd, etc.” as you type.

Any of these characters always signals the end of a sentence:

◦ line break

◦ exclamation point

◦ question mark

◦ horizontal ellipsis (U+2026)

◦ ideographic full stop (U+3002)

◦ halfwidth ideographic full stop (U+FF61)

1. Type the “typo” in the left column.

2. Type the correction in the right column.

► To modify an existing correction,

1. Double-click the right (correction) portion of the item in the list.

2. Type what you want it to “correct” to.

3. Click your pointer elsewhere.

☞ Be careful, as pressing ⏎ causes the next item in the list to be selected for editing.

The bottom portion of the QuickFix preferences are language independent (unless you designate otherwise in the System Preferences).

You can use the Nisus Writer Pro Glossaries to save time. A glossary contains abbreviations of many more characters than the simple replacements of a QuickFix typo. When you expand an glossary abbreviation, its entry replaces the abbreviation you typed. Glossary entries can contain both graphics and text.

You can have many different glossaries for different collections of abbreviations related to specific tasks.

3. Double-click the name of the file in the list area on the left and give the new glossary file a unique name.

A Nisus Writer Pro Glossary document window opens. All the tools available in any other Nisus Writer Pro document are available in this document as well.

At the top of the document the following text appears, explaining how to add glossary entries:

6. Press ⇥ or ⏎.

Nisus Writer Pro makes any file of a type “.ngloss” inside this folder available to use the next time you restart the application.

Your Glossary files names appear at the bottom of the Glossary submenu and the glossary abbreviations appear as a submenu of those.

2. Select a Glossary file to edit.

A Nisus Writer Pro Glossary document window opens. All the tools available in any other Nisus Writer Pro document are available in this document as well.

5. Press ⇥ or ⏎.

10. Save and close the file.

2. Click the checkbox to the left of the glossary’s file name.

You might have glossary abbreviations that you use infrequently enough that you forget how to type them. In such circumstances you can choose them directly from the Glossary submenu.

☞ While typing an abbreviation in the Find & Replace dialog will not cause the abbreviation to expand, you can enter an abbreviation directly into the Find & Replace dialog directly using the menu command.

3. An alert appears asking you to confirm that you want to delete the file: “The file will be moved to the trash immediately. This action cannot be undone.”