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by adryan
2022-12-02 16:59:41
Forum: Nisus Writer Pro
Topic: Internal 'sidebar'
Replies: 2
Views: 885

Re: Internal 'sidebar'

G'day, tedg et al You can do this using Text Boxes. Tools > Insert Shape > Text Box Text outside the box can be positioned using the Shape Wrap Palette. Or you might create a new Section that includes the Text Box and adjust the page margins (Margins Palette) especially to suit that Section. Note th...
by adryan
2022-11-19 15:09:06
Forum: Nisus Writer Pro Macros
Topic: Macro to insert inputted string before digit(s):digit(s)
Replies: 6
Views: 2344

Re: Macro to insert inputted string before digit(s):digit(s)

G’day, NisusUser et al Thanks for clarifying that. Here’s a Macro that I hope does the trick for you. Insert Book Designation.nwm It assumes that the selection includes the (soft or hard) return immediately preceding the first verse reference you wish to amplify. It also assumes you want a space bet...
by adryan
2022-11-19 14:45:30
Forum: Nisus Writer Pro Macros
Topic: Macro to insert inputted string before digit(s):digit(s)
Replies: 6
Views: 2344

Re: Macro to insert inputted string before digit(s):digit(s)

G'day, NisusUser et al There is a big problem here, in that the second verse reference in your example (viz, "10:15") is not preceded by either a paragraph return or a soft return, and yet it seems from the transformed text you cite that you still wanted it preceded by your chosen text str...
by adryan
2022-11-16 23:12:29
Forum: Nisus Writer Pro Macros
Topic: Help with Macro sentence spacing
Replies: 8
Views: 2571

Re: Help with Macro sentence spacing

G'day, Philip et al Mark is quite right when he says we really need to see the Macro that Julie used. Pending such enlightenment, and perhaps more out of pursuit of the intellectual exercise than anything, I still think it likely that she failed to insert the footnote reference immediately after the...
by adryan
2022-11-16 04:38:39
Forum: Nisus Writer Pro Macros
Topic: Help with Macro sentence spacing
Replies: 8
Views: 2571

Re: Help with Macro sentence spacing

G'day, Mark et al Just so. I usually have Show Invisibles activated all the time, and it is quite irritating to see all the extraneous junk people have in their text. Leading and trailing paragraph spaces are very common. One has to be a little bit careful about replacing each string of spaces with ...
by adryan
2022-11-15 22:38:03
Forum: Nisus Writer Pro Macros
Topic: Help with Macro sentence spacing
Replies: 8
Views: 2571

Re: Help with Macro sentence spacing

G'day, Julie et al Double spacing after concluding sentence punctuation was common practice in the days of typewriters because they used monospaced fonts. Although there are some computer fonts that are monospaced (eg, Courier), most are proportional and with them it's best to use single spacing and...
by adryan
2022-11-04 02:46:12
Forum: Nisus Writer Pro Macros
Topic: Loop through open documents
Replies: 3
Views: 1832

Re: Loop through open documents

G'day, Ted et al Regular visitors will know that I have only rudimentary knowledge of the Nisus Macro Language, but I felt sure the answer would lie in at least one of the supplied Macros. And indeed there is a snippet of code for looping through all open documents in the Macro titled "Save All...
by adryan
2022-10-15 15:21:21
Forum: Nisus Writer Pro
Topic: Word Wrap and Plain-Text Paste
Replies: 5
Views: 1508

Re: Word Wrap and Plain-Text Paste

G'day, Mark, Al et al No, it doesn't. And I think the reason this thing persists with Al's pasting is that it is a No Break Space (U+00A0) which is treated pretty much like any other character and not part of formatting per se . All occurrences can easily be replaced with ordinary Spaces using Find ...
by adryan
2022-10-13 03:41:27
Forum: Other Nisus Products
Topic: what is the real extension of old Nisus Writer 6.5 ?
Replies: 7
Views: 2681

Re: what is the real extension of old Nisus Writer 6.5 ?

G'day, JD et al The file extension is probably just hidden. Click on the file to select it in the Finder, then File > Get Info. About halfway down the columnar window that opens, you should see a section titled "Name & Extension". That should provide the information you want, as well a...
by adryan
2022-10-06 03:58:27
Forum: The Blank Page
Topic: Reliability of SSDs & other types of storage
Replies: 2
Views: 1939

Re: Reliability of SSDs & other types of storage

G'day, David et al Once upon a time there was a powerful civilization devoted to securing bliss in an afterlife and apprising future generations of how they came to achieve it. Among their number was a young genius who, among other things, constructed a prototype quantum computer which not only tran...
by adryan
2022-10-05 04:05:41
Forum: Nisus Writer Pro
Topic: Align tables
Replies: 5
Views: 1306

Re: Align tables

G'day, Geoff et al As far as I can see, there is nothing in the NWP documentation that specifically describes what sort of object Tables are. They don't function in quite the same way as most Shapes do. In a way, they seem to be akin to a single-character paragraph. The only way I could think of to ...
by adryan
2022-09-29 03:50:43
Forum: Nisus Writer Pro
Topic: Closing Quotation Marks
Replies: 6
Views: 1299

Re: Closing Quotation Marks

G'day, Ulrich et al You attached a PNG file rather than a text file. I opened it in Preview and was then able to extract the text and paste it into an NWP document. There appears to be a paragraph return immediately preceding the closing quotation mark following "mein Kind?". This would ex...
by adryan
2022-08-23 22:14:01
Forum: Nisus Writer Pro
Topic: Your settings could not be loaded / saved
Replies: 9
Views: 1809

Re: Your settings could not be loaded / saved

G’day, cchapin et al Experiences such as these must be incredibly disheartening, especially with a new computer. Sometimes a carefully-worded Internet search can return results that indicate that others have had the same problem and perhaps even offer a solution. It may be that taking the computer t...
by adryan
2022-08-19 05:41:09
Forum: Nisus Writer Pro
Topic: Result message after Find & Replace
Replies: 1
Views: 697

Re: Result message after Find & Replace

G'day, Xuanying et al

You're probably right. To be consistently pedantic, though, the message would have to cater for various possibilities with "Replace & Find", such as "Replaced 1 occurrence, found no other occurrences".

Cheers,
Adrian
by adryan
2022-08-07 03:05:59
Forum: Nisus Writer Pro Macros
Topic: Replace character style
Replies: 16
Views: 5789

Re: Replace character style

G'day, Tacitus et al The easiest way to do this is to use the Find/Replace mechanism and Macroize it. The resultant expression will look like this if you use PowerFind Pro:– Find and Replace ".+", @Text<\0>, 'EsauU' The ".+" (without the quotation marks) is the Find expression an...