Nisus Writer Express - Manual (Page 258)

238 Setting Preferences
You should edit this file to contain a list of glossary entries. Each entry should be separated
from the others by a glossary break (use the menu Insert > Glossary Entry Break). Each
entry consists of an abbreviation and an expansion. The expansion is separated from the
abbreviation by either a tab or newline character.
6. Type the characters you want to use (something you’ll easily remember) as the abbreviation.
7. Press @ or <.
8. Type (or paste) the full text to which you want that abbreviation to expand.
9. Choose Glossary Entry Break from the Insert menu.
10. Repeat steps 6 through 9 as needed.
11. Save and close the file.
Glossary abbreviations and expansions are stored in a special file on your hard drive located in
the Glossaries folder of the Nisus Writer folder in your User’s Application Support folder:
<~/Library/Application Support/Nisus Writer/Glossaries>
Figure 203
Glossary files location
Nisus Writer Express makes any file of a type “.ngloss” inside this folder available to use the
next time you restart the application.
Add/remove an entry to or from a Nisus Writer Express Glossary file
1. Choose Preferences… from the Nisus Writer Express menu.
2. Click QuickFix at the top of the Preferences dialog.
3. Select a Glossary file to edit.
4. Click Edit Glossary.
A Nisus Writer Express Glossary document window opens. All the tools available in any other
Nisus Writer Express document are available in this document as well.
5. Type the characters you want to use (something you’ll easily remember) as the abbreviation.
6. Press @ or <.
7. Type (or paste) the full text to which you want that abbreviation to expand.
8. Choose Glossary Entry Break from the Insert menu.
9. Repeat steps 5 through 8 as needed.
Or, if you want to remove an entry, delete everything between one Glossary entry break and the
next.
10. Save and close the file.