Nisus Writer Pro User Manual

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Tools menu

The Nisus Writer Pro Menus

highlighted (in the text), and will be inserted when you choose
Insert TOC. The active Table of Contents is the one to which text
will be included when you choose one of the various levels of the
submenu Include in TOC.

Index

Choose commands from the Index submenu to mark text for, and to create an
index of and for your document. Indexing is explained in detail beginning on page
238.

Index

Marks the selected text for inclusion in an index.

Index As…

Presents a dialog enabling you to index the selected text (or all
expressions that match it) as a different term.

Additional Index As…

Allows you to add an additional “Index As” reference to selected text.

Index Using Word List…

Presents a dialog enabling you to open a “word list” file. Nisus
Writer Pro then uses the terms of the word list to search your
document. When items in the word list are found every occurrence
is marked for the index.

Remove Indexing

Removes the selected text from inclusion in the index

Insert Index…

Presents a dialog enabling you to determine which index to display
and in how many columns. It then places the generated index at the
location of the insertion point.

Rebuild Index

Regenerates the index adding text newly marked for the index.

Configure Index Styles…

Presents a dialog enabling you to determine the attributes of your
Index.

Default Index

The command checked beneath Configure Index Styles… indicates
the name of the current Index among those that exist in the
document. This is the Index that is active, highlighted (in the text),
and the one that will be inserted when you choose Insert Index….
The active Index is also the one to which text will be included when
you choose Index, Index As…, Additional Index As… or Index
Using Word List…
.

Bibliography

Choose commands from the Bibliography submenu to manage the bibliographical
references for your document. These tools are explained in detail beginning on
page 251.

Activate Bookends

Brings Bookends to the font, making it the active application.

Find Reference…

Brings Bookends to the font and presents a dialog enabling you to
search your Bookends database for any particular reference.

Insert Citation

Enters the Bookends citation in your document at the insertion
point location.

Insert Bibliography Placeholder

Much like insert Index and insert Table of Contents, this
command inserts a “placeholder” where the bibliography generated
by Scan Document will be placed.

Scan Document

Looks inside the document text for plain text citations, enclosed in
{curly braces}, and replaces them with special formatted references,
eg: “(1)” or “(Barnes)”. It also generates a bibliography that matches
each such numeric reference to the citation. If no placeholder exists
(see Insert Bibliography Placeholder, the bibliography will be put
at the end of the file.

Unscan Document

Replaces any special numeric bibliographic references, inserted by
Scan Document with plain text citations enclosed in curly braces. It
also removes the generated bibliography from the document.

Automatic Content

Choose commands from the Automatic Content submenu to control the

way in which automatic content (cross-references, automatic numbers, date and
time variables, as well as various document properties appear in your document.

Update All Stale Content

In order to save your computer’s processor from constantly
recounting the number of words, etc. Nisus Writer Pro permits
“automatic content” to become “stale”. This command forces the
application to update all that information.

Update Selected Stale Content

In order to save your computer’s processor from constantly
recounting the number of words, etc. Nisus Writer Pro permits

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