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<snip> Perhaps NWP could use one of these two strategies (apparently already is use by other word processors) to get around the limitation of the Apple Text Engine. This would be great, especially as the default new document in NWP is set to 'multiple' spacing and it does not seem possible to set a...

I on the other hand use Bookends, finding it very straightforward and intuitive. Some people seem to have some problem with the need to scan the RTF file to create the bibliography and turn the citations into whatever format an irritation compared with the way it's apparently done in Mellel, but I d...

@Elbrech, OP means a line, not a ruler. @wrbtu Where do you want your vertical rule? If it's in the gutter between columns, then when you set the document/section to 2 columns, immediately below is a check box for "Line Between Columns". If you want it at one of the margins, you could do t...

You won't necessarily have the problem in Word, Mellel, Papyrus or Mariner Write, or NeoOffice or OpenOffice because they use their own proprietary text engines to draw the pages on screen, whereas Nisus, TextEdit, Bean and a host of others are based on Apple's text engine, so will behave differentl...

I would say I'm as evangelical over Scrivener as Scott is over Nisus. I love Nisus too. As I've said on this or other threads, I did use Mellel for a long time and tried hard to convince myself that I liked and got on well with the interface, but the truth is I was never totally at ease in it. I als...

Thanks for the suggestions. Of course it is possible to make a graphic, but when you are fitting a document within a set number of pages, and shrink the graphic to save space, you also reduce the size of the figure legend (which is not what you would want to do - you may want to reduce the size of ...

NWP makes use of the OSX system spelling dictionaries, which are quite different than the old Classic dictionaries. While it might be possible for us to transfer/port them, it is unlikely. You would be better off installing one of the spelling dictionaries available for OSX. For example, the free A...

Thank you xiamenese, I played with if after you comments. This worked for me (almost like yours) 1. Preference / New file 2. Format tab 3. choose "normal" from "use style" 4. pick favorite font (it automatically applies to comments). Initially I made a mistake and didn't do #3 (...

Following on from the above, you can set a global comment style: 1: choose "Edit Nisus New File" from the preferences; 2: type in some text and add a comment to it; 3: go to Styles View and set the font, size, etc. as you wish; 4: return to Page View and delete all the text and the comment...

Hi counterpt, You can set the comment style in each document individually but not as a global preference. 1) By default the comments should be in the font set as the default font in Nisus New File, so if you have that set to Times Roman, they will be in Times Roman, not TNR. 2) If you want to change...

One of the major limitations of NWP for my academic/grant writing is the apparent inability to provide a legend for graphics. One suggestion I tried was entering the graphic into a table, and then using a table box for the figure legend. This seems to work well - except that it does not seem possib...

Hear! Hear! I too started with Mellel before I found the predecessor to Nisus. I had a particular deal-breaker problem with Mellel, which meant that I didn't bother to upgrade about a year ago ... I was no longer using it anyway. Nisus pre-1 was the answer to my problem, and I've used Nisus ever sin...

Avery Mac Label Expert is available for free. It can handle the tedious task of creating and formatting text for printing sticky labels. There is a a well written user manual and templates. Hi there, I brought the Avery Mac Label Expert software, it was ok but i wouldn't say it was brilliant. It's ...

I looked at the 1.0.1 update stats and didn't see if it addressed this issue; does it? I'm ready for my final version of my Dissertation to go out but I can't use Pro easily if not fixed. For the Draft versions I printed those pages separately and then hand-inserted them. The other issue is it does...

I'm all for lightening the burden on this Martin guy :P We'll definitely see about getting the forum to accept attachments. The repository idea is nice as well, but I'm not sure allowing anyone to upload whatever they feel like without some kind of management on our part is for the best. I see that...