printing Comments in Nisus Pro

[seastar584]

How do I print the marginal Comments I insert in Nisus Pro? Thx in advance.

[martin]

There's currently no way to print comments out in the margin of the document. The best you can do is to copy all the comments and paste them into a separate document for printing. Copying all the comments at once will also copy the meta-data (eg: author name). Here's how to do it:

1. Place the selection/caret inside any comment.
2. Select All once, to select all text inside the comment.
3. Select All again, which now expands the selection to all comments in the document.
4. Copy the selection.
5. Create a new document and paste the comments. They should appear with the comment's date and author.

[ptram]

Hi Martin,

Your hint shows how well this feature was designed. There is also a macro to do this (I have it in my Macro menu, but I don't know if it is an official one or an addition).

I would like to have a macro that converts comments to footnotes/endonotes, with custom markers to avoid any interfence with real notes. Is it something that can be done? (I'm sorry I'm not able to do it myself).

Paolo

[martin]

Hello Paolo,

I would like to have a macro that converts comments to footnotes/endonotes, with custom markers to avoid any interfence with real notes. Is it something that can be done?

I'm afraid at this time there's no way to do such a conversion. The problem is that the macro language doesn't provide enough information about the comments in the document. This is something we'd like to enhance, so perhaps in the future your macro might be possible.

[martin]

I should clarify that when I said that there's "no way" to do the conversion, I meant that there's no way to do it using only the macro language. Were one very determined, it's possible to parse/rearrange the raw RTF that NWP outputs so as to convert comments into footnotes. However, it would be a complicated, messy business and not recommended.

[xiamenese]

Paolo, as you're a Scrivener user, you could do as KB suggested to another user ... import the file into Scrivener, where the comments will be annotations, then change them to footnotes in Scrivener — though that might be arduous as I don't know if you could do it globally — and re-export.

Mark

[phspaelti]

I'm not sure why Martin is so quick to dismiss a macro solution. The following is a 'quick and dirty' macro that would seem to do the job, but it has not been really battle tested. Use at your own risk (Place the cursor at the top of your file to start.)

Code: Select all

$selRange = TextSelection.activeRange
:Insert:Comments:Go to Next Comment
$newSelRange = TextSelection.activeRange
while $selRange != $newSelRange
	Copy
	:Insert:Comments:Remove Comments in Selection
	# go to end of current selection
	$selRange = TextSelection.activeRange
	$newSelRange = Range.new $selRange.bound, 0
	TextSelection.setActiveRange $newSelRange
	:Insert:Footnote
	Paste
	Go to Note Text
	$selRange = TextSelection.activeRange
	:Insert:Comments:Go to Next Comment
	$newSelRange = TextSelection.activeRange
End

[NisusUser]

There is a way to print comments from within NWP. Please see https://www.nisus.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12647.