Nisus Writer Express - Manual (Page 55)

Creating Documents
Now that you’ve had a grand tour and a brief description of the menu commands of the Nisus Writer
Express working environment you are ready to begin creating and editing your documents.
This is the major portion of the documentation. It describes all the tools you need to create basic
printable documents.
Writing and Editing 35
Formatting Documents 59
Setting Up a Document’s Page 93
Headers and Footers 115
Graphics 125
Book Tools 131
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Writing and Editing
This portion of the manual introduces you to Nisus Writer Express and shows you basic word
processing tasks. Review the information here to get a feel for the application and how easy it is to
learn and use. The sections include
Entering (Typing) Text 35
Writing in Multiple Languages 36
Selecting Text 43
Copying Text 44
Drag and Drop 45
Cutting Text 45
Pasting Text 46
Moving, Deleting, and Replacing Text 46
Using the Clipboards 46
Copying and Pasting Styled Text 48
Creating Lists 48
Recovering from Mistakes 55
Saving files 56
Entering (Typing) Text
At first blush, the Macintosh seems a lot like a typewriter (if you can remember what that was) 1 . It
has a keyboard that looks pretty much like that of a typewriter and it enables you to put letters
together to put words on paper. However, there the metaphor ends.
On a computer you type letters and spaces, numbers and punctuation marks, combining them into
recognizable, meaningful configurations. The keyboard sends electronic signals to the central
processing unit (CPU) which then sends the signals further on to become images that appear in
thousands of points of light on the monitor in front of you.
• When you type, words that do not fit on one line, automatically “wrap” to the beginning of the
next line.
• Press < only to begin a new paragraph, not when you come to the end of a line.
• Indent the beginnings of your paragraphs using the tools on the ruler (as explained in
“Structuring paragraphs” beginning on page 61). Do not press
@ or the Spacebar.
For detailed information that explains how fonts work and how Nisus Writer Express displays your
text on opening a file see Appendix II - Displaying Fonts and Text on page 264.
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1 Certain aspects of the typewriter still affect the way we do and conceive of word processing. For more information
see the article in the Wikipedia: <
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typewriter>.