Nisus Writer Express - Manual (Page 245)

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Choose Various Display Options for Your Documents
Nisus Writer Express has a wide variety of options that affect the display of your working
environment. Some of these have been described elsewhere in the documentation. For a quick
review and details on how to use those not explained elsewhere, they are collected here. You can set
most of these display options in the Appearance Preferences of Nisus Writer Express.
Figure 190
The Appearance Preferences pane
Some of these options take effect on new documents as explained in “Set “defaults” for new files” on
page 95. These include Invisibles and Page Guides. Other options are applied immediately and
affect all documents.
Invisibles
Turn on or off “Invisibles” to have Nisus Writer Express display or hide “formatting” characters.
▶ Check Show invisibles (tabs, newlines, page breaks, etc.) to either display of invisibles in all
new documents.
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At any time, you can choose Show Invisibles from the View menu to display
• Dots for spaces
• Tildes ~ for non-breaking spaces ( 4 spacebar)
• Little boxes for the ideograph space (used in East-Asian languages),
Unicode U+3000
• Vertical bar with arrows for reverse direction markers for bidirectional text
• Arrows where tabs occur (left to right and right to left, depending on the direction of the text)
• Paragraph symbols at the end of paragraphs (left to right and right to left, depending on the
direction of the text)
• “Turn around arrows” where soft returns appear (left to right and right to left, depending on the
direction of the text)