Nisus Writer Pro - Manual (Page 150)

130 Set the Number of Columns Setting Up a Document’s Page
Set the Number of Columns
Nisus Writer Pro can display your text in columns. All of Nisus Writer Pro’ columns are what are
known as “snaking columns.” This means that the column text continues from the bottom of one
column to the top of the next (i.e. not “independent”).
Columns are set on a per-section basis. The Nisus New File is a one-column document. Each
section of a document can have only one column format. Therefore, if you want a document that
begins with one column then has two columns and at the end has one column once again, your
document must have three sections.
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Columns only display in Page View, not Draft View, Full Screen, or Style Sheet view.
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The Columns palette
1. Open the Columns palette.
2. Type the number of columns you want your document, or section, to have in the Columns field
at the top and press T , or, click the Minus (-) button or the Plus (+) button to decrease or
increase the number of columns.
Set column line
Nisus Writer Pro can draw a line between your columns.
1. Open the Columns palette.
2. Click Line Between Columns.
Set column and gutter width
Nisus Writer Pro allows you to set a different column width as well as gutter width between each
column.
1. Click the forward or backward button to decide which column you want to modify.
The number of the column appears at the top of the bottom half of the Columns palette. This is
not the column in which your insertion point appears.
2. Click the up-pointing or down-pointing triangle in the “stepper” to the right of Width or Gutter
to increase or decrease those settings accordingly.