On 6/27/03, Geoffrey Heard wrote: >At 10:11 PM +0900 26/6/03, Mark Smith wrote: >>In the latest Nisus newsletter, they state: > >>Now if only Nisus could implement user- >>defined styles, even if it is via macros rather than "real" styles, I >>would be in seventh heaven. > >Mark, do you mean the kind of thing (or a variation on that) which we have in NW 6.5, >or which is available in Weird or AW or whatever? I would think these were a given, >frankly. No WP can operate without them. But if you mean something different, can you >elicidate?
He means the greatest word processing feature since cut-and-paste, the style SHEET. A "package." So, for example, you can (in classic NisusWriter) create a style called, for instance, block quote. This might be "Helvetica bold 12 point red, spell checking turned off, using the ruler named 'left and right indented .3 and aligned left.'" All these at one menu pull instead of the six or eight it would otherwise take -- and if you decide that you want all block quotes in Times instead of Helvetica, you change one definition, and ALL block quotes turn from Helvetica to Times. I also consider this a necessary feature. Editors *have to* have it. And kludges won't do; just a macro to assign all these features is insufficient. They must be an actual editable entity. This is because I am an editor, and I get many articles from contributors with garbage formatting, and I have to conform them to my appearance guidelines. Only style sheets -- exportable style sheets -- make this possible. For me, the absence of style sheets is a dealbreaker. I can't even serious *test* NEx, because I can't use the results for anything. -- Bob Waltz [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The one thing we learn from history -- is that no one ever learns from history." --------------------------------------------------- The Nisus Interactive List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Searchable archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/nisus-interactive%40nisus.com/ To unsubscribe from this list please send a message with "unsubscribe nisus-interactive" in the body of the email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
