Nisus Writer Pro - Manual (Page 407)

Customizing & Automating Solutions 387
Add or subtract, or modify a “typo” that gets fixed
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Click the Plus (+) button to add a typo.
1. Type the “typo” in the left column.
2. Type the correction in the right column.
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Select a “typo” to remove from the correcting list and the Minus (-) button to remove it.
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To modify an existing correction,
1. Double-click the right (correction) portion of the item in the list.
2. Type what you want it to “correct” to.
3. Click your pointer elsewhere.
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Be careful, as pressing T causes the next item in the list to be selected for editing.
Working with Glossaries
You can use the Glossaries to save time. A glossary contains abbreviations of many more characters
than the simple replacements of a QuickFix typo. When you expand an glossary abbreviation, its
entry replaces the abbreviation you typed. Glossary entries can contain both graphics and text.
You can have many different glossaries for different collections of abbreviations related to specific
tasks.
Create a new Glossary
1. Choose the menu command command Nisus Writer Pro > Preferences… and click QuickFix at
the top of the Preferences dialog.
2. Click New Glossary in the upper right area of the QuickFix portion of the Preferences dialog.
This creates an empty New Glossary file.
3. Double-click the name of the file in the list area on the left and give the new glossary file a
unique name.
4. Click Edit Glossary.
A Nisus Writer Pro Glossary document window opens. All the tools available in any other Nisus
Writer Pro document are available in this document as well.
At the top of the document the following text appears, explaining how to add glossary entries:
You should edit this file to contain a list of glossary entries. Each entry should be separated
from the others by a glossary break. Choose the menu command Insert > Glossary Entry
Break. Each entry consists of an abbreviation and an expansion. The expansion is
separated from the abbreviation by either a tab or newline character.
5. Type the characters you want to use (something you’ll easily remember) as the abbreviation.
6. Press
@ or < .
7. Type (or paste) the full text to which you want that abbreviation to expand.
8. Choose the menu command Insert > Glossary Entry Break.
9. Repeat steps 5 through 8 as needed.
10. Save and close the file.
Glossary abbreviations and expansions are stored in a special file on your hard drive located in
the Glossaries folder of the Nisus Writer folder in your User’s Application Support folder:
~/Library/Application Support/Nisus Writer/Glossaries