Nisus Writer Express - Manual (Page 276)

256 Nisus Writer Express and the Community of Connected Applications
• To provide this functionality though underlying technology that is simple to use and requires
minimal changes in an existing Cocoa-based application.
The goal of LinkBack is not to provide for in-application editing of data from another application.
For example, LinkBack does not provide for a graphics application to do graphics editing in a word
processor.
How you might use LinkBack
A user scenario that depicts how we envision LinkBack being used follows.
Use LinkBack with a drawing application
1. Create a new image for your research paper with a graphics tool.
2. Paste the image into a Nisus Writer Express document.
3. You decide you need to change the drawing in your Nisus Writer Express drawing.
4. Double-click the image in Nisus Writer Express.
The original application opens and displays the image.
5. Make your changes and choose Save in the drawing application
This updates the image in Nisus Writer Express.
Nisus Writer Express and the World Wide Web
You can insert “clickable” links to URLs on the Internet using Nisus Writer Express.
Insert a link to a location on the World Wide Web
1. Type the text you wish to have appear in your document.
2. Select that text.
3. Choose Hyperlink… from the Insert menu.
4. Type the URL to which you want to have the text refer.
You can paste in a URL you copied from a Web browser (if you have it in another of the Nisus
Writer Express Clipboards).
5. Click Insert.
Edit an inserted link
1. Press 6.
2. Point your insertion point to the hyperlinked text and click your mouse button.
3. Choose Edit Link… from the contextual menu that appears.
4. Modify the URL to which you want to have the text refer.
You can paste in a URL you copied from a Web browser (if you have it in one of the Nisus Writer
Express Clipboards).
5. Click OK.
Remove an inserted link
1. Press 6.
2. Point your insertion point to the hyperlinked text and click your mouse button.
3. Choose Remove Link from the contextual menu that appears.
Save a Nisus Writer Express document as an HTML document
1. Edit your document as you would ordinarily.
2. Use the Styles supplied in the Nisus New File that comes with Nisus Writer Express to format
your text.
These styles are designed to convert to standard HTML attributes.
3. Choose Save As… from the File menu of Nisus Writer Express.
4. Give your file the name you want it to have and navigate to the folder where you want to save it.
5. In the Save As dialog choose HTML from the File Format pop-up menu in the lower portion of
the dialog.
6. Click Save.
Edit an HTML document in Nisus Writer Express
Ordinarily, when you double-click an HTML document your preferred Web browser opens it. If,
however, you drag the HTML file onto the Nisus Writer Express icon in the Dock, Nisus Writer