Nisus Writer Pro - Manual (Page 309)

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8. Click the Color Picker tool and choose a color from the Colors panel as illustrated in Figure 132
on page 120.
9. In the Padding portion of the palette, set the amount of space you want between your text and
the border. You can set the Horizontal (the space to the right and left) and Vertical (the space
above and below) padding.
a.
Click the “steppers” to increase or decrease the amount of horizontal and/or vertical
padding.
or
b. Select the contents of either the Horizontal and/or Vertical fields.
c.
Enter the value you want.
d. Press T to confirm your choice.
!
Any vertical changes made here can override the Before and After settings of the Paragraph
palette as explained in “Set spacing between paragraphs” on page 83.
!
You can use negative values in the horizontal borders (on the sides), though not on the
vertical borders (top and bottom).
!
If a bordered paragraph spreads over a page break, Nisus Writer Pro does not put a horizontal
line either at the bottom of the initial page nor at the top of the succeeding page, indicating
that the paragraph continues.
Create a screen behind paragraphs
1. Select the paragraph(s) behind which you wish to have shading appear.
Figure 313
The Paragraph Shading palette
2. Choose the pattern you want from the Pattern pop-up menu in the Paragraph Shading palette
illustrated in Figure 313.
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A paragraph with a Pattern set to None can have no color.
The options available here are the same as those for table cells as explained in “Determine the
pattern of cells” on page 213 and “Set the color of the foreground and background of a cell pattern“
on page 214.
The padding set in the Paragraph Borders palette determines the padding of the shading, whether
or not a border line appears.
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 graphics tools 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 versatility.
Figure 314
A paragraph with a border line thickness set to 5; (yellow of Highlight color HTML EBFF64) padding set to 6 pt all around, but
no shading
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 graphics tools 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 versatility.
Figure 315
A paragraph with no border, but shading (yellow of Background color HTML FFFF00; pattern set to 45% shading) padding set
to 6 pt all around
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 graphics tools in earlier versions of