Nisus Writer Pro - Manual (Page 307)

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• TextEdit (and possibly other Apple RTF capable applications) only recognize Background Colors
and ignores Highlight colors in RTF as well as Paragraph Borders and Paragraph Shading.
• Predefined Highlight colors in Nisus Writer Pro can be customized by the user.
• Microsoft Word 2004 does not allow arbitrary highlight colors. If a user chooses a non-standard
color Word will show the “closest” color of those (16 illustrated in Figure 310) it allows.
Figure 310
Highlight color palette in Microsoft Word 2004
Use Paragraph Borders and Paragraph Shading to set off your text and
create “screens”
Every now and then you may need to have a bit of text stand out from the rest. One way is to use a
“block-quote” paragraph style and create a “screen” using the Paragraph Borders and Paragraph
Shading palettes. While this was possible using the floating images in earlier versions of Nisus
Writer Pro the Paragraph Borders and Paragraph Shading palettes make this much easier and offer
greater control as well as, perhaps, greater versatility.
You can use the Paragraph Borders and Paragraph Shading palettes independently, but together
they offer better results. Similarly, you can use their attributes as part a paragraph style in the
style sheet of any document.
Draw a border around paragraphs
1. Select the paragraph(s) around which you wish to draw a border.
Figure 311
The Paragraph Borders palette
2. In the Paragraph Borders palette, illustrated in Figure 311, click the Edges to modify in the
section at the top of the palette
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The edges that will be modified by subsequent actions (for example changing their color) are only
those represented by buttons that are selected (turned on: appear blue). The first two buttons
Deselect All and Select All work to change the other buttons.