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From: gdavis@primate.wisc.edu (Gary Davis)
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Subject: Re: Nisus 3.0
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Date: 8 Aug 90 05:29:41 GMT
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From article <25914@mimsy.umd.edu>, by spector@brillig.cs.umd.edu (Lee Spector):
> With Nisus 2.11 I'm using the Cross-Reference facility to do my citation
> management, and though I've just started with Nisus, I think it'll work
> pretty well.  Since Nisus has a nice built-in macro facility, I'm anticipating
> that I'll be able to fix things up if they don't work as I want them to...

There are many ways to do bibliographies in Nisus, though they may require some fiddling with GREP and macros (fun actually). I often just type in refs in
the text using a special character style, such as dotted underline, to
distinguish them. When I've finished the manuscript I can use macros to
collect all the refs into a bibliography. To print the manuscript I set
the special ref style back to plain text. As Lee says, it's possible
to use macros to do a lot of whatever reorganization or reformatting of
things may be necessary. 

I tried FullWrite once for bibliographies, but it's just too rigid to be
usable for me. The nice thing about Nisus is its flexibility.

> Nisus 2.11 came with an "Update Figures" macro which I haven't tried yet.
> Here's part of the description: "This macro will renumber the figures
> in your document.  The figure captions must match the following format 
> [stuff deleted...] Because the desk accessory Calculator is used to simulate 
> a sequence variable that starts at 1 and counts upward, this macro will not
> work under multifinder."
> 
> Now it seems kind of funky to me that they're using the Calculator DA in
> the macro, and the resulting interaction with multifinder is kind of
> strange.  However, if I'm reading the manual correctly (p.256) then you
> CAN make it work under multifinder by pressing Option at the proper time...

Starting with some revision of Nisus, I forget which, pressing Option
was no longer necessary. Nisus 3.0 has built in arithmetic capabilities,
so the Calculator DA is no longer necessary.

Gary Davis