Bottom Line
These are NisusWriter macros, and OneClick palettes to support them. They require NW 5.X. An earlier version worked on 4.X, but that has been long discarded.
I originally wrote them as a front end of a three legged project to create a robust authoring environment. The other two legs would be export to FrameMaker, and the big challenge: a novel marker support strategy. The markers would support FrameMaker markers. These were then printed from Frame as books, and exported via XML WebWorks Publisher to the web.
But I have since migrated from Frame for much work and use these generally for all my writing.
Installing these guys takes energy, and they only support the style in which I write. So I suggest that you browse these documents to see if they'll be useful to you. If you look at nothing else, look at the Word to NisusMacros comparison.
This is a work in progress. Contact me for the lastest, or to report how you use them.
What They Do
Every paragraph has a named style and a preceding character graphic. Every emphasis style is named. These are leveraged to support outlining. The use is as an authoring environment: one would want to change the styles and remove character graphics in a finished document. This is easy.
There are three basic controls:
Tab/Shift Tab
These promote and demote headers. (And also the "narrative outline" as described in another chapter.)
Option DoubleClick Text
This collapses text, leaving headers, and expands text if it is collapsed. What the rules are depend on where the cursor is.
Option Control
Opens a popup menu under the cursor which provides advanced features.
WYSIWYG
The idea is that you do not work in WYSIWYG mode. You work in a mode which is friendliest to your creation, and which exports to layout mode.
