Hi Paula, There is a Nisus Writer Pro User Guide in PDF format that you can download from the Nisus Pro web site. First, I'll give you the instructions for creating a numbered list, which is one of the topics covered in the user guide under the chapter on "Creating Documents" under "Writing and Editing" on the subject of "Creating Lists" (page 41).
First of all, I prefer to work in "Draft View" mode when composing documents. This gives you access to all pages in your document at once in the edit area, while the default document mode you'll have when you start up Nisus Writer Pro from a new installation will be "Page View", where you edit one page at a time. If you have added headers and footers to the page that you want to check, you may want to switch to "Page View" mode to view these, or to view your document page by page. You can change this from the "View" menu on your Nisus Writer Pro menu bar, just as you can select a list format from the "Format" menu on the menu bar. However, in practice, any item that you access frequently, including the view options and list formatting options, will be found on your application's toolbar, and it will be simplest to navigate to the toolbar options to make these changes. Use the Mac keyboard shortcut of Control-F5 to move to and from the toolbar of the application. For example, if you want to change your document view to "Draft View", press Control-F5. The first elements in the toolbar will be 3 radio buttons that let you choose between "Draft View", "Page View", and "Style Sheet", with your default set to the second radio button. You can navigate to the first radio button and press it (VO-Space) to change to "Draft View". To create a numbered list continue to navigate through the toolbar to the "List" button and click with VO-Shift-Space to bring up the menu options, then arrow down to "Number List" and either press "Return" or "VO-Space" to exit the menu and get returned to the text area. If you are going to be working extensively in the application and frequently returning to specific controls, you might set a hotspot for a specific control in the toolbar. You will also be able to change the list format to "Letter List" and increase or decrease the list level from the "List" button in the toolbar. A better way to ensure that new documents that you create open in draft view mode by default is to set this up in your Nisus Writer Pro preferences. Press Command+comma to bring up the preferences menu. Control-F5 to move to the preferences toolbar and navigate to the "New File" button and press it (VO-Space). On the "New File" pane, navigate to the "View" tab and press (VO-Space) to select it. On the View tab, navigate to the pop up menu button for View and change it from "Page View" to "Draft View". You can also change the units used by the ruler from the pop up menu default of "Centimeters" to "Inches", or your preferred units. Press Command-W to close your preferences window when done. To download the PDF user guide, go to the Nisus Writer Pro web page: http://www.nisus.com/pro/ Use item chooser menu (VO-I) to look for the "Download PDF User Guide" link on the page, then VO-Space on the link to download the guide. Same instructions apply for getting the Nisus Writer Express user guide, except the web page is: http://nisus.com/Express/ The Pro guide file you download will be named "NWP-help.zip", and will show up in your Safari downloads window if you press Command-Option-l to bring up your downloads window. Navigate to the downloaded file and interact. This will be a group with 4 elements. Then navigate to the "icon" and VO-Space to open and expand the zipped file. If I switch applications to Finder with Command-tab, the file "Nisus Writer Pro 2.0 User Guide.pdf" will be highlighted. You can read the PDF file in Preview or Skim, if you prefer to get this free app from: http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/ HTH. Cheers, Esther On 8 May 2013, at 12:27, Paula Hobley wrote: > Hi there > > I have purchased Nisus Writer Pro. I was trying to create numbered lists, so > 1, 2, 3, etc, and under some of those options, there are A, B, C etc. I was > wondering, could somebody please tell me how to do this as I can't figure it > out. Alternatively, is there a document anywhere that gives hints on working > with this program with Voice Over? > > Thanks for any help with this > > Paula > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
