Nisus Writer Express - Manual (Page 250)

230 Setting Preferences
WYSIWYG Font Menu
You can make the Font menu WYSIWYG.
Nisus Writer Express can display your Font menu (and the Family portion of the Character palette
when it is expanded) so that each font’s name appears in that font.
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Displaying your fonts WYSIWYG can cause Nisus Writer Express to respond sluggishly.
▶ Check Font menu shows previews in the Appearance preferences dialog and choose the size
you want them to appear in from the accompanying pop-up menu.
You can have the menu (and the palette) appear in any of four sizes:
• small size
• medium size
• large size
• huge size
Figure 196
The Family portion of the Character palette showing fonts WYSIWYG in various sizes
Determine the Color of Various Aspects of Your Nisus Writer Express
Working Environment
Nisus Writer Express can “colorize” a wide variety of aspects of your working environment as well as
highlight text marked for a wide variety of “markers” you might add to your text. It can distinguish:
• Automatic Text
those bits of text that Nisus Writer Express stores as “variables” and updates, either
automatically or on command
• Automatic Numbers
such as those items inserted from the Automatic Number submenu of the Insert menu
• Indexes
any of the indexes you have inserted in the document using Insert Index… from the Index
submenu of the Insert menu
• List items
any bullets, numbers or other text that appear when you insert a list in your document
using the List button or the Lists submenu of the Format menu
• Merge Placeholders
any symbols that appear when you insert a merge placeholder in your document using any
one of the commands from the Merge Placeholder submenu of the Insert menu