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Boy, you've put your finger on one of Nisus' macro language sore spots :( Unfortunately, as you note, there are no convenient commands for controlling attributes; Attributes objects are (apparently) immutable, and controlling formatting all has to be done via menu commands. Given that the best way t...

dshan wrote: Oh Geoff, have I got the site for you!:

MacOS 7.0.1 in your browser

Fantastic!

Maybe an option to save macros as text might be a simpler solution? (For some cases at least?)

I was talking of standard Nisus macros, with the ending .nwm Well me too. You can try the following little experiment. Save a .nwm macro as text . Then replace the .txt extension with .nwm. You will now find that you can read the macro in the finder no problem. And the macro still runs. Now try the...

Thanks, Philip, for your macro solution! Though, really, my request should have been for an style option Display as Title Case. That's easy to change. Open the capitalization macro and replace the lines that change the case. I was thinking of doing it that way, but… well, I was in a hurry :) Title ...

I'll say that I never noticed this before, but it seems to be due to whether the file is saved as plain text or not. Obviously perl macros are plain text, so you can see their code, and for a nisus macro it wouldn't matter if it is plain text or not (unless there are some attribute sensitive find st...

Here's my attempt at a macro to do this. Note that the package includes two macros. One is used to adjust the exempted words, but it shouldn't need to be run in general, and in fact, the main capitalization macro will call it the first time. After that you only need to run that macro, if you want to...

sebwin wrote:Edit:
…only that Table Cell Shading attributes are dropped.
…and the padding.
nag, nag.

Well, tell that to Nisus-soft. Yes, why can't we have macro control of cell shading?

I don't usually cross-post, but I thought there might be people who don't usually look in the macro forum, but might nevertheless be interested in such a thing. Below is a macro that will flip a table's rows and columns. It works for tables with different numbers of rows and columns, and it also wor...

Thanks Eric. The problem seems to be that Nisus treats the rows of a default table as having a height of 0. In such cases the layout engine seems to adjust the height as necessary. But my macro sets the dimensions (the width of the new table) according to that number. So you end up with a 0 width ta...

NWP 2.0.5 introduced a number of new features for dealing with tables in macros. The following macro takes advantage of these features to improve on previous macros. This macro will flip a table's rows and columns. It works for tables with different numbers of rows and columns, and it also works wit...

In an earlier thread we discussed the issue of Paragraph End Notes, i.e., notes that display immediately at the end of the paragraph. In Nisus the way to do this is to set one's endnotes to display per section, and then use section breaks (same page) for every paragraph that needs them. The macro ap...

Is it possible for you to use a character style to mark these special characters? (The main drawback is that you may already be using character styles for something else that needs to be applied to such characters…)

Try selecting the whole document, and setting the margin in the margin palette (by number).

One other thing, Philip. The macro adds the new character style, but does the macro tell NWP to make that style have a font size of 10? It works perfectly that way, but I don't see that specified anywhere. So where's the 10-pt size coming from? Of course I wanted the <<>> stuff to be 2 points small...