Nisus Writer Express - Manual (Page 41)

Getting Started The Nisus Writer Express Menus (Edit Menu) 21
▸ Copy Character Attributes
Copies the font and other attribute information of selected text.
▸ Copy Ruler Copies the ruler information of selected text.
Paste
▸ Paste Inserts the contents of the current Clipboard into your document at
the insertion point.
▸ Swap Paste Swaps the current selection with the contents of the current
Clipboard.
▸ Paste Character Attributes
Pastes the font and other attribute information on the Clipboard
over selected text.
▸ Paste Ruler Pastes the ruler information on the Clipboard over selected text.
▸ Paste Text Only Pastes the text on the Clipboard so that it assumes surrounding
attributes.
Delete Deletes the current selection from your document. The deleted selection is not
stored on the Clipboard.
Select All Selects everything in the active window.
Complete Presents a “menuoid” that offers words that would complete the word you began to
type. Most useful by using its keyboard shortcut (initially set at
4 Ÿ ).
Expand Glossary
Expands Glossary abbreviations created by using the Glossary tools of the
QuickFix preference. This is especially useful for East Asian (ideographic)
languages that don’t have spaces between characters.
Convert Choose commands from the Convert submenu to quickly change the kind of
quotes and/or the case of text in a selection.
These commands are not to be confused with the commands with similar names
that appear in the Character Case submenu of the Format menu. The commands
here alter the actual Unicode values (in addition to the appearance) of the
characters. If you copy and/or paste the text only at a different location (either in
Nisus Writer Express or some other application) the underlying characters will not
change.
▸ Plain Quotes to Smart Quotes
Changes all quotes in the current selection to “Smart
Quotes” (sometimes called “curly” quotes).
▸ Smart Quotes to Plain Quotes
Changes all quotes in the current selection to "Plain
Quotes" (sometimes called "dumb" quotes).
▸ To lowercase Changes the current selection to all lowercase characters.
▸ To UPPERCASE Changes the current selection to all UPPERCASE characters.
▸ To Capitalized Makes the first letters of all words in the current selection
uppercase characters. If any uppercase characters appear in the
selection (and not at the beginning of words) Nisus Writer Express
makes these lowercase
▸ To Small Caps Changes the current selection so that all lowercase characters are
reduced by approximately 75 percent and then exchanged with their
equivalent uppercase characters.
▸ To Toggled Case Switches UPPERCASE characters in the current selection to
lowercase characters and lowercase to uppercase.
▸ To Unicode Code Points
Changes the character displayed to its appropriate value in the
Unicode codespace; that is, the range of integers from 0 to
10FFFF
16
.
▸ From Unicode Code Points
Changes the character displayed from its Unicode codespace; to its
appropriate linguistic glyph.
Sort Paragraphs
Choose commands from the Sort Paragraphs submenu to quickly change the
sequence of selected paragraphs. A paragraph is any text that ends with a Return
character.
▸ Ascending (A-Z) Changes the sequence so that selected paragraphs ascend from A -
Z and from 1 - “x”.
▸ Descending (Z-A) Changes the sequence so that selected paragraphs descend from Z -
A and from “x” - 1.