Nisus Writer Pro - Manual (Page 113)

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You can set the size to decimal fractions as well as whole numbers.
Increase or decrease the size of characters by a specific amount
1. Select the text you want to have a different size.
2. Choose Increase By… or Decrease By… from the menu Format > Size.
3. Type the number for the amount you want the size to change.
4. Click OK.
Change the attributes of characters
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Whenever you change the attributes of characters in your text from its underlying style as set in your
Nisus New File or an applied style sheet, as explained in “Formatting Documents Using Style Sheets”
on page 95, the , the Font/Character Attributes Tag appears on the Statusbar at the bottom of your
document window. This is considered a “manual override” of the formatting of your document, as
explained in detail on page 93.
1. Select the text you want to have a different attribute.
2. Choose the attribute you want from the Format menu.
The selected text appears with the chosen attribute.
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For more information about special attributes in Nisus Writer Pro see page 283.
Change the attributes of characters using the “Dropper”
1. Select the text with the attributes you wish to apply elsewhere.
Figure 101
The Dropper with nothing in it (before clicking in text), then with something in it (after clicking in text)
2. Click the Dropper on the Toolbar.
The dropper has “absorbed” the attributes. You are now in attribute duplication mode.
3. While the Dropper is “full”, click and drag your pointer to select the text to which you want to
apply the attributes.
4. Repeat step 3 until you no longer want to duplicate attributes.
5. Click anywhere in your text, or click the dropper button.
You have now left the attribute duplication mode.
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The Dropper “absorbs” and “drops” highlight color and any attributes of Styles (though not the Styles
themselves). The underling Style remains but the new attributes have been laid “on top of” the Style;
they “override” the Style.
Manually overriding formatting
All the above sections from “Change the font of characters” on page 91 through “Change the
attributes of characters using the “Dropper”” refer to the act of manually overriding the formatting
of your document. Manual formatting is any formatting (attributes) applied to text directly, not
through Styles. Applying a Heading 1 paragraph style may change the text’s font and size, but that
is not manual formatting. That is formatting by way of Styles. On the other hand, if you select some
text and change the Font, Face, Size or Color using the Character palette, that is manual
formatting.
The Font Tag (the little black underlined “a” icon on the Statusbar) represents all manual font-
like formatting applied to the selection. When you choose Select All command from the Font Tag’s
menu, it selects only all text in the document that has all of the manual formatting applied. What
the font tag selects will depend on where the selection rests in your document.
Example 1
You may have some text in your document where only the Normal style is applied. If you select that
text, the font tag won’t appear at all, because there is no manual formatting applied.
Example 2
If you again select that text where only the Normal style is applied, and then add an Underline by
choosing the menu command Format > Underline > Single, the Font Tag will appear. The text now