Nisus Writer Pro - Manual (Page 408)

388 Determine What QuickFix Fixes Setting Preferences
Figure 415
Glossary files location
Nisus Writer Pro makes any file of a type “.ngloss” inside this folder available to use the next
time you restart the application.
Add or remove an entry to or from a Nisus Writer Pro Glossary file
1. Choose the menu command Nisus Writer Pro > Preferences… and click QuickFix at the top of
the Preferences dialog.
2. Select a Glossary file to edit.
3. 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.
4. Type the characters you want to use (something you’ll easily remember) as the abbreviation.
5. Press
@ or < .
6. Type (or paste) the full text to which you want that abbreviation to expand.
7. Choose the menu command Insert > Glossary Entry Break.
8. Repeat steps 4 through 7 as needed.
Or, if you want to remove an entry, delete everything between one Glossary entry break and the
next.
9. Choose the menu command Insert > Glossary Entry Break so that the file is ready to receive
new abbreviations at some later date.
10. Save and close the file.
Activate a Nisus Writer Pro Glossary file
1. Choose the menu command Nisus Writer Pro > Preferences… and click QuickFix at the top of
the Preferences dialog.
2. Click the check box to the left of the glossary’s file name.
If you leave the file checked when you quit Nisus Writer Pro, it will be available to you the next
time you restart the application.
Enable automatic expansion of Nisus Writer Pro Glossary file abbreviations
1. Choose the menu command Nisus Writer Pro > Preferences… and click QuickFix at the top of
the Preferences dialog.
2. Check Expand glossary entries as you type at the bottom of the Glossary Files list.
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For East Asian and other languages that do not use spaces you can trigger a glossary abbreviation’s
expansion by assigning a keyboard shortcut to the command Expand Glossary on the Edit menu as
explained in “Assign Menu Keys to Menu Commands” on page 383.