Nisus Writer Express - Manual (Page 229)

Polishing & Managing Documents 209
For example in the font Apple Chancery, the letters “f” followed by “i” and “f” followed by “l” appear
differently depending on whether or not ligatures are turned on or off.
Without ligatures turned on the letters are separated:
f
[space]
i
, or without the space:
fi
f
[space]
l
, or without the space:
fl
With ligatures turned on the two characters appear as one glyph. Note how the crossbar of the
“f” continues to the “i” and the top of the “f” appears a bit lower and touches the top of the “l”:
fi fl
Each font handles these phenomena in its own way.
1. Select the text you wish to change.
2. Choose Use Default or Use All from the Ligature submenu of the Format menu.
Prevent letter pairs from using ligatures
1. Select the text you wish to change.
2. Choose Use None from the Ligature submenu of the Format menu.
Cause letter pairs to display closer together or further apart
1. Select the text you wish to change.
2. Choose Tighten to squeeze text together, or Loosen to spread text further apart, from the Kern
submenu of the Format menu.
Prevent letter pairs from displaying closer together or further apart
1. Select the text you wish to change.
2. Choose Use None from the Kern submenu of the Format menu.
Color text
1. Select the text you wish to color.
2. Choose the color you want from the Text Color submenu of the Format menu.
If one of those colors does not match your desired palette:
3. Choose Show Text Colors from the Format menu.
4. Use the various options to have your text display in the color you want.
5. Close the Colors panel.
▶ The easiest way to change colored text back to black is to choose Remove Color from the menu
that pops up from the Color Tag on the Statusbar.
Figure 181
The Color Tag and its menu
Highlight text
You can “highlight” sections of your text as with a “highlighting” marker pen as illustrated in Figure
57 on page 73.
1. Select the text you wish to highlight.
2. Click the Highlight button.