Using AppleScripts you can create little “stand alone” applications that you can use to take information from one “scriptable” program and manipulate it in a second one before passing it on to yet another. You can also create little applications that you can share with other Nisus Writer Pro users.
AppleScripts are made up of AppleEvents. An AppleEvent is a single command such as Copy or Print; analogous to a Nisus Writer Pro macro command. Therefore, an AppleScript (an accumulation of AppleEvents written to perform an action) is analogous to a Nisus Writer Pro macro. There are several levels of AppleEvent support an application can have.
Nisus Writer Pro supports some of these.
Nisus Writer Pro is Scriptable. That is, using the Script Editor application, to do any of the required suite of AppleEvents such as Open - a document, Print - a document, Quit - the application, Run - the application. Nisus Writer Pro also supports part of the Text Suite and the “Do Menu Macro” command.
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