Open automatically saved and closed files, What gets saved with a file – Nisus Writer Express User Manual

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Customizing & Automating Solutions

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From the Plain text encoding pop-up menu of the File Formats portion of the Saving
preferences, choose either

International formats: Automatic; UTF-8 (recommended), UTF-16, ASCII;

Mac OS Only formats: Arabic, Central European, Cyrillic, Greek, Japanese, Hebrew,
Icelandic, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Western (Mac OS
Roman)
;

Windows Only formats: Central European (Windows Latin 2), Japanese (Windows, DOS),
Korean (Windows, DOS), Latin-US (DOS), Simplified Chinese (Windows, DOS),
Traditional Chinese (Windows, DOS) Western (Windows Latin 1);

ISO Standards formats: Central European (ISO Latin 2), Central European (ISO Latin 4),
Cyrillic (ISO 8859-5), Greek (ISO 8859-7), Japanese (ISO 2022-JP), Turkish (ISO Latin
5)
, Western (ISO Latin 1), Western (ISO Latin 3);

Other formats: Japanese (EUC), Japanese (Shift-JIS), Western (NeXTStep).

You can override this preference when you save a file if you choose Save As….

Save files automatically and never see the Save As dialog, unless you choose it

from the menu

1.

Choose Preferences… from the Nisus Writer Express menu.

2.

Check General at the top of the dialog as illustrated in Figure 81 on page 95.

3.

Check “Autosave every X minutes.”

4.

Check “Keep new documents in the document manager without asking me.”

Nisus Writer Express will create a title for your document based on the first few words of the
document. When you close the window Nisus Writer Express will not ask if you want to save the file,
but, will close the file and save any changes made as it stores the file in the Document Manager.
In addition, you can explicitly save your files by choosing Save As… from the File menu. This
enables you to save your file in a variety of formats and encodings. For normal use UTF-8
encoding

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is recommended.

For more information about saving files see “Saving files” on page 56.

You can open the Document Manager at any time by choosing Document Manager from the Window
menu.

Open automatically saved and closed files

1.

Choose Document Manager from the Window menu.

2.

Select the file you want to open from the list.

3.

Click Open.

You can have the Document Manager sort your files, in descending or ascending order, by name, date
created or modified, or by size. When you select a file, the Document Manager displays a preview of
the file.

What gets saved with a file

Aside from all the contents of your file, Nisus Writer Express also saves the following so that it
opens with

window size

window location

show invisibles (on or off)

show page guides (on or off)

units (if you had changed them from the New File setting)

document view (Draft View, Page View, etc.)

selection or insertion point position

whether or not the Navigator is open

The Toolbar appears or not according to how you had set the most recently opened window. The
Tooldrawer appears or not based on what you choose in the preferences as explained on page 97.

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8-bit UCS/Unicode Transformation Format

<http://unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html#2>, <http://

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8>

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