Not being a Nisus Writer (Classic) user, I'm not sure what the catalog and NC's file clerk are. So at the risk of being repetitious, let me add that some kind of find feature built into the document manager, something that could search for text in documents stored in the document manager, would be ...
Charles Hi Matze: This is a part of NWE. Just select some text and drag it. Then hold down the option key. You will see the cursor change to one with a "plus" in it to tell you this will copy. -Charles the cursor changes to a plus, but when I drag the rectangular selection appears. i can not drag th...
Hi Charles, how do you like the idea of a "get back"-button? I often want to check if I have written something. I do a find, eventually find what I was looking for and want to keep on writing where I have stopped, when I started the find. If I had a "get back" button in the F/R window I could jump t...
Hi Matze: Perl was chosen for NWE for a number of reasons. The biggest two were its very power text processing capabilities and its popularity. The idea was that a person could more easily find documentation on this language than any home-grown language we could come up with. I am not at all a prog...
Hello! I find Perl not at all usable for me, too much. And the menu commands are not enough to create sth more advanced. I am curious to know why Perl is the macro-language for NWE. I can remember, that some years ago Nisus has asked NW-users to vote for a macrolanguage: did Perl really win this ele...
What I miss most is: Multiple character shortcuts. Any chance to get this feature back? We do have this on our list, but don't expect it soon because it is somewhat difficult to do on OS X and there are other things we need to focus on (like a bullets and numbering, right to left, and a graphics la...
Hello Charles, thank you for your reply! We current do support charactes/words/paragraphs for selected text. Just select some text and look at the Stats palette. Great! Seems to me, that I have to explore NWE more seriously before complaining ;-) How do you use the sentence and line counts? Are thes...