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These worked for me as advertised! Thank you a lot. I did have some peculiar results, however. I inserted Drop Caps in 11 paragraphs in a document, one every two pages or so. the last one, I started getting spinning rainbows that lasted 30 seconds or so. Then, with the document sitting idle (at leas...

I'm still looking for a really good solution to formatting a Drop Cap. I've looked at one solution I found in another thread, offering two styles, one for the paragraph, one for the Character to become a drop cap. It results in a drop cap, sorta, that sits on the same baseline and extends above the ...

Here is the source of the runaway macro. It must contain a bug, but I don't know Perl much. How can I fix it? #Nisus Macro Block #source front selection #destination front selection #End Nisus Macro Block use strict; binmode(STDIN, ":utf8"); binmode(STDOUT, ":utf8"); my $text; while (my $line = <STD...

I just executed a macro from the Macro menu. It has been running for nearly an hour!In the status bar at the bottom of the screen, I see this: "Running Macro 'Form Paragraphs.pl'". I am unable to run any other macros. If I try, a dialog comes up asking if I want to continue the running macro or stop...

I'm upset to see that this thread's last post was in 2012! I hope the idea has not died. I know you must be extremely busy now, having taken over the "Take Control" empire entirely. :P I have been using Nisus Writer Pro now for several years, and write probably about a dozen pages in it every week. ...

That may be the best computer book I have encountered, and it really made my life better. Yes, "The Nisus Way" is one of those books Agreed! I was really bummed when Nisus took so long to migrate to OSX in any meaningful way, and lamented the disconnect with the OS 9 version that meant your book di...

Again, thanks, Philip. You continue to offer me extremely useful and helpful examples. To explain my needs a bit more clearly: Yes, I am trying to determine the reference for a short section of selected text in a larger document. Think of the Bible. Suppose I did a search on the words, "For God so l...

Philip, thanks for the tip. I'll try it out. I don't know if I can describe in full what I'm trying to do; it's complex. An overview: I have a book-length document that is divided as follows: Chapters<Sections<Paragraphs<Sentences. The chapters are numbered with Arabic numbers; the sections with Rom...

I have a Powerfind Pro macro that includes code to match all text up to a certain string. This works fine unless there is a footnote reference in the text, at which time the match fails. If I delete the footnote reference (and footnote itself, of course), the match succeeds. Is there any way to incl...

That helped tremendously! I'm well on the way to doing what I want. I've already expanded on the macro with two additional searches, including one with a named subtext in the found string...That was a pleasant find in the macro manual, which isn't exactly an easy read!

Thanks so very much, Philip! I will definitely give this a shot as soon as I can. Your example helps so much to point me in the right direction...

First, me: I am fair-to-middling in AppleScript (although not scripting Nisus Writer Pro), and a total neophyte with Nisus macros. I have a rather complex AppleScript I've been using in BBEdit that I am attempting to replicate in Nisus Writer Pro. I've begun using AppleScript, and have gotten to thi...

I can't understand why Nisus has not produced a version for IPad! The demand has been high for years.

I'm quite disappointed that no one from Nisus has chimed in with a solution, a partial solution, or at least a "Sorry, no way to do that yet." Of course, Anne, I know about saving to PDF via the Print dialog. The File menu "Save as PDF" just avoids the step of having to select the PDF popup in the P...

I've discovered I can at least cause NWE to save as PDF by using the "Do Menu Macro" command and giving it the string "Save as PDF". The drawback is that I cannot give an argument such as the name of the file or the folder to use in saving, so the dialog box appears asking for a file name and locati...