Nisus Writer Express - Manual (Page 60)

40 Writing and Editing
• Language pop-up menu in the Language palette of the Tooldrawer
Figure 21
The Language pop-up menu in the Language palette (shows the Thesaurus when a word is spelled correctly)
• Language submenu of the Format menu.
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For quick access to any of your languages you can assign a keyboard shortcut as explained in
“Assign Menu Keys to Menu Commands” on page 235.
Write in a different language (to switch languages)
1. Make sure that you have set your International System Preferences and your Nisus Writer
Express Language Preferences as indicated in Appendix III - “Set up language support on your
Macintosh” on page 270 and “Set up language support in Nisus Writer Express” on page 36.
2. Choose the language you want to type in from the Language palette (or the Language button on
the Toolbar at the top of the window, or the Language submenu of the Format menu, or from
the Language Tag on the Statusbar at the bottom of the document window).
3. Begin typing.
Enter right to left text in your document
Once you have set your Nisus Writer Express Languages preference appropriately (as explained in
“Set up language support in Nisus Writer Express” on page 36), typing in right to left (or
“Bidirectional”) languages (such as Arabic, Hebrew, Ladino, Pashtun, Persian, Urdu, or Yiddish) is
the same as in any other language.
However, in order to get you started quickly the following information deals with matters explained
in more detail later in the documentation.
1. Choose the language you want to type in from the Language palette (or the Language button on
the Toolbar at the top of the window, or the Language submenu of the Format menu, or from
the Language Tag at the bottom of the document window).
If this is a new document that has no text in it, a dialog appears asking if you want the
document to be primarily right to left.