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From: pollock@screamer.csee.usf.edu (Wayne Pollock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Nisus Questions
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Date: 4 Oct 90 20:49:37 GMT
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After playing with the demo of Nisus, I feel certain that by designing styles
in layers (just as you do in Word; style X is Normal+<stuff>, style Y is
X+stuff, etc.), then apply the styles in sequence.  You don't have to do this
manualy either - make a macro to apply the styles in order and call it
something like "personal letter style".  Then to globally change something,
such as font A into font B, do a simple find&replace operation.  To globably
change one entire style with another is also possible, I'm certain, with
marcos (but may not be trivial).

I have two basic questions after playing with the demo.  Inserted graphics can
be made to be fixed on the page (under the text, or over the text, but not
XOR), to float with the paragraph (the graphic is a fixed distance from the
upper left corner of the paragraph), but apparently not to float (or flow)
with the text.  So any change to the style or text or margins of the paragraph
cause the graphic to be misplaced.  How does one get graphics to float with
the text?

The second question is about secioning the document.  Is it possible to have
two columns for part of the document and one column for the rest?  I'm
thinking of business letters' hearders, with my name and address in the upper
right of the page, and the recipient's name and address in the upper left.
While I suppose I could make my return address a graphic, fixed to the page, I
often change this around (never mind why!) so I would prefer text.  There
would be other uses for sectioning a document too.

Wayne Pollock (The MAD Scientist)
Internet:	pollock@screamer.csee.usf.edu