Putting it all together 421 – Nisus Writer Pro User Manual

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Determine What QuickFix Fixes

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Various QuickFixes

385

Enter smart quotes as you type

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Superscript ordinals as you type

386

Capitalize the first word of sentences as you type

386

Fix typos as you type

386

Add or subtract, or modify a “typo” that gets fixed

387

Working with Glossaries

387

Create a new Glossary

387

Add or remove an entry to or from a Nisus Writer

Pro Glossary file

388

Activate a Nisus Writer Pro Glossary file

388

Enable automatic expansion of Nisus Writer Pro

Glossary file abbreviations

388

Create a new glossary abbreviation, or edit an

existing abbreviation in an existing Glossary

389

Import a Nisus Writer Classic Glossary file

389

Delete a Nisus Writer Pro Glossary file

389

Advanced Preferences

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Load import files when Nisus Writer Pro starts 389

Choose which import files are used for different

file formats

389

Customize Your Toolbar

391

Change the Display of the Toolbar

391

Add your own custom Toolbar item

391

Remove your own custom Toolbar item

393

Create Your Own Group of Palettes for the

Tooldrawer

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Save Preferences

395

Return All Preferences to Their Original

(Shipped) Settings

395

Macros, Skimming the Surface

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About Macros

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Use existing macro files and their commands 397

Running Macros

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Open (“load”) a macro file

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Run a macro

398

Stop a macro

398

Editing Macros

398

Edit a macro

398

Rename a macro

398

Saving a Macro

398

Deleting Macros

398

Remove a macro file from the menu

398

Delete a macro

398

Undoing a Macro

399

Working with Macro Files

399

Before Creating a Macro

399

Typing Menu Commands

399

Create a new macro file

399

Save the current macro file under a different name

399

Case sensitivity in Menu Command Dialect

macros

399

A simple “to do” list

399

Writing an invalid command in a macro

400

Working with Menu Commands

400

Looping and Accessing Other Macros

400

Call one macro from another

400

Macros, the Deeper Workings

401

The Nisus Writer Pro Macro Language

401

Old and New Macros

401

Menu Command Dialect

401

Using menu commands

402

Using parameters with menu commands

402

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Examples

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Variables

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Flow of control

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Conditional branches

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Looping command

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Comparison warning

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Document operations

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Environment properties

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Macro document values

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Current document values

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Current Nisus Writer application values

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Current System version

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Current Home folder

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Modifying text

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Changing the selection

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Clipboards

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User interaction

408

Find and replace

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The list of find options

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Embedding Perl

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Useful blocks for data entry

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Advanced macro notes

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Included macros

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Writing Perl Scripts

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The recommended way, to structure Perl Macros

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Learn more about Perl

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Components of a Perl script header

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#nisus macro block

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#source ( front | next | none | clipboard)

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#destination ( front | next | none | clipboard | new)

[replace]

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#(send text as rtf | send rtf | rtf | text as rtf)

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#before execution

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#after execution

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#end nisus macro block

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Writing AppleScripts

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Integrate AppleScript with Nisus Writer Pro 418

Write AppleScripts for use in Nisus Writer Pro 418

Have AppleScripts open a new file

418

Have AppleScript open a file and perform some

tasks

418

See a list of all the AppleScripts commands that

Nisus Writer Pro recognizes

418

Get/set text

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Examples

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Do Menu Macro

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Examples

419

Other examples

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Putting It All Together

421

Nisus Writer Pro and the Community of

Connected Applications

421

The Services Menu

421

Using LinkBack

421

What applications support LinkBack

422

Goals and non-goals

422

How you might use LinkBack

422

Use LinkBack with a drawing application

422

Nisus Writer Pro and the Internet

422

Insert a Link to a Location on the World Wide

Web

422

Open a Document on the Web

422

Copy a Link to a Document on the Web

422

Remove an Inserted Link

423

Edit an Inserted Link

423

Save a Nisus Writer Pro Document as an HTML

Document

423

Edit an HTML Document in Nisus Writer Pro

423

Handling Communications

423

Email your Nisus Writer Pro files

423

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