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Mmm ... I don't care how Nisus chooses to achieve it either. If they find a way of associating super- and subscript calls to Unicode code points, that's great, or if they give us a way we can set a custom raised or lowered baseline on super- and subscripts as they have done with the Note Reference c...

Actually, I'm with you all the way. It would be wonderful if one didn't have to find work-arounds, but I'm not sure I've ever met an app where I haven't had to find one at some time or other. As I said in an earlier post, I think it would be great if Nisus can find a way of providing us with a way o...

I take your point fully about Fixed spacing then causing problems in other situations, like table-cells for graphics. In your position, I would use an alternative work-around which would be to leave the Normal style with Multiple spacing and create a new style called something like Body Text with Fi...

<snip> shades... I'm going to download Scrivener and give it a try. Great application ... doesn't suit everyone, but it's a great writing environment and it works very well with Scrivener and NWP. <snip> Mark... We will evaluate Bookends. Do you currently live in Xiamen? Lots of history with respec...

<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...