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by xiamenese
2008-12-13 21:33:31
Forum: Nisus Writer Pro
Topic: Customising Superscript and Subscript
Replies: 13
Views: 15579

Re: Customising Superscript and Subscript

Geoff, I think this is down to Apple and their text engine. So here is my latest guess/kludge, but it is possible to modify the "Note Reference" character style to lower the baseline, and presumably the font size could be adjusted by setting a different standard font size on which it is ba...
by xiamenese
2008-12-10 17:22:59
Forum: Nisus Writer Pro
Topic: Underlining still needs to be fixed
Replies: 7
Views: 7475

Re: Underlining still needs to be fixed

Geoff, Putting forward yet another kludge: if you know you are going to have to underline a word or two in a given document, and you want the extra spacing, could you not simply raise the baseline on the whole of your paragraph, adding in a little extra line height if strictly necessary. Then you ha...
by xiamenese
2008-11-17 21:24:41
Forum: Nisus Writer Pro
Topic: Slower than Molasses In January
Replies: 23
Views: 31140

Re: Slower than Molasses In January

The .doc importer does take quite some time to load. It's an unfortunate characteristic of OpenOffice, which our importer is based off of, that we can't do much about. However, OpenOffice just released a new version, which we are looking to move to. Hopefully that can help in this regard. One thing...
by xiamenese
2008-11-16 05:47:38
Forum: Nisus Writer Pro
Topic: Double spacing in NWP
Replies: 10
Views: 12815

Re: Double spacing in NWP

Don't mention it ... it's a pleasure to be able to help. Mark Edited in later: After a brief experimentation, and much as I hate to say it, it looks as if Pages adds the space below the line. Am I surprised? No ... Pages uses its own text engine, not the Apple text engine behind TextEdit and many th...
by xiamenese
2008-11-14 17:12:46
Forum: Nisus Writer Pro
Topic: Double spacing in NWP
Replies: 10
Views: 12815

Re: Double spacing in NWP

But am I not right in thinking that the "Points after" is paragraph spacing, so won't give double line spacing, which is the thing the OP needs? If that is the case, single line spacing +12 after won't give the same result.

Mark
by xiamenese
2008-11-13 00:51:52
Forum: Nisus Writer Pro
Topic: Double spacing in NWP
Replies: 10
Views: 12815

Re: Double spacing in NWP

In contrast to most word processors, NWP, when set to 2x line spacing, places the empty line space above the characters instead of below it. I'm wondering two things: 1) Is there a particular reason that it works this way? 2) Is it possible to change it? (If I want the margin measurement to be the ...
by xiamenese
2008-11-02 21:29:10
Forum: Nisus Writer Express
Topic: Word documents. Grrr!
Replies: 15
Views: 29102

Re: Word documents. Grrr!

I have those three too, and was going to recommend either OpenOffice or NeoOffice. I prefer the UI of OpenOffice, but find that in many things NeoOffice performs better, though that's subjective, except for one point. I do a lot of sending files backwards and forwards to colleagues using Chinese Wor...
by xiamenese
2008-10-30 06:05:54
Forum: Nisus Writer Pro
Topic: Using linkback with Intaglio
Replies: 8
Views: 9601

Re: Using linkback with Intaglio

I too asked the developer of Tables to include LinkBack right from the off and I'm really pleased that he's finally doing it. Yes v 1.5 is still in Beta, but I have found it very stable for all my needs. I think the problem with that from the point of view of an NWP user is that -- as far as I know ...
by xiamenese
2008-08-13 01:21:15
Forum: Nisus Writer Pro
Topic: Can text be wrapped around a table?
Replies: 3
Views: 4835

Re: Can text be wrapped around a table?

Thanks. Maybe it can be put into the next version? Lots of requests in there for this and floating text-boxes generally. If you have an app like OmniGraffle that supports LinkBack, I'd produce your table in that, insert it as a graphic with a caption if necessary, and then if you need to edit it, L...
by xiamenese
2008-08-06 14:01:56
Forum: Nisus Writer Express
Topic: Word documents. Grrr!
Replies: 15
Views: 29102

Re: Word documents. Grrr!

Heatherkay, There is an issue with some versions of Office which nothing but Office will open directly. I'm continually having problems with Windows/Office 97 and 98 ... I have to run them through MacLink Plus! It includes Excel files. Which version of Word was your file produced on? Do you know? Mark
by xiamenese
2008-07-31 08:04:38
Forum: Nisus Writer Pro
Topic: Text Colour Shortcut
Replies: 3
Views: 4906

Re: Text Colour Shortcut

jennydiski wrote:Thank you for the idiot proof reply. Life just got easier.

Jenny
Make your life even easier Jenny ... also set up a short-cut for black so you can go back without having to mess around. I use Cmd-RR and Cmd-BB.

:)

Mark
by xiamenese
2008-07-22 03:23:21
Forum: Nisus Writer Pro
Topic: NWP Like App for Windows?
Replies: 19
Views: 26547

Re: NWP Like App for Windows?

Mariner seem to have been moving into the Windows world too, unless I'm much mistaken. Have they ported Write?

Mark
by xiamenese
2008-07-18 17:27:55
Forum: Nisus Writer Pro
Topic: Stock templates?
Replies: 2
Views: 3791

Re: Stock templates?

In the meantime, it's pretty easy to build your own templates. The only thing that's missing is an "Open from Template" menu. I use the Document Manager as a workaround for this as I the only other files that go in there are temporary saves; but I would like a menu for the purpose. And I g...
by xiamenese
2008-07-17 21:23:02
Forum: Nisus Writer Express
Topic: Edit Line Wraps and Indent
Replies: 3
Views: 8327

Re: Edit Line Wraps and Indent

Yes, this happens all the time in tab-placement, for instance. You're talking about 1/100 of an inch, which would just about need someone with a magnifying-glass to detect. I use generally use centimetres as my measure for a number of reasons, and can get a similar rounding problem, but .01 cm is sm...
by xiamenese
2008-07-10 17:07:20
Forum: Nisus Writer Pro
Topic: Desired NWP1.2 Features
Replies: 109
Views: 128495

Re: Desired NWP1.2 Features

@scottwhitlock: You can already do this ... the sidebar is customisable, and any palette can be dragged onto the desktop. I have Character, Paragraph, Lists and Image permanently on the desktop, and the sidebar open with Styles, Language and Statistics showing. The other things which I use less ofte...