This file can be printed and used as a script in conjunction with the on-screen text. Please note that all the graphics contained in the text body of this document are character graphics on the text layer. You can edit them by double-clicking on them after first clicking to select them. At the end of this document (below the line marked Play Area) the graphics are on the Graphics Sheets. These can be edited only by switching to the Graphics Sheets (click the graphics icon on the top of the vertical scroll bar). Please also note that the display of page breaks has been turned off in this document. To turn them on use the Pagination command from the Display submenu of the Tools menu.
While on the text layer (which is where you are) you can type and edit text. But you can also paste, re-size, crop and move character graphics.
To move the ball below, to another line of text you should cut and re-paste it on a new line in the same way you would do it with a character. Once a character graphic is pasted on a line of text it can only be moved along and up and down relative to that line.
To re-size or crop the ball, you must select it with one click. Once the ball is selected, you can re-size it using the handles at the corners of the displayed rectangle that look like this: If you hold the shift key pressed down, you will re-size proportionately. To crop the Character Graphic use the more rounded handles which are in the center of each side of the displayed rectangle. Pressing the Shift key while double clicking on the selected ball will return it to its original shape.
Try moving this ball:
Now about regular text.
Click the Show Master Ruler icon near the top of the vertical scroll bar: . The Master Ruler will appear. In the upper left corner of the Master Ruler you will see these icons: They are used to turn the Paragraph Ruler and Header/Footer display on and off. When both the Paragraph Ruler Icons ( ) and the Header/Footer Icons ( ) are displayed the Show Header/Rulers Icon will be highlighted like this:
Try turning the display on and then off again by clicking on this icon which is on the Master Ruler:. The ruler Icons will appear in the left Margin. Paragraph Ruler Icons usually indicate where a formatting change (such as line spacing, auto-indent, or tabs) has occurred. The Master Ruler will display the attributes of the paragraph containing the Insertion point or if a Paragraph Ruler Icon is selected, the attributes of that ruler Icon.
For example to change the line spacing of this paragraph, place the insertion point anywhere in this paragraph and then find the Line Spacing Icon on the Master Ruler. The Line Spacing Icon looks like this: By clicking twice where it says Auto then on the box with the lines until the 2 appears in the number box so that the icon looks like this: you will have made this paragraph double spaced. It is that easy. Another way to alter this paragraph would be to select the Ruler Icon (which is to the left of the first line of this paragraph. If you cannot see a Ruler Icon, click on this icon on the Master Ruler: .)
You will notice that the Master Ruler for the above paragraph has now changed.
Changing all copies of a ruler at once and thus all paragraphs governed by those identical rulers is as simple as changing a single paragraph. Select the ruler you wish to change. Hold down the Command Key while making the desired changes on the Master Ruler. In this way all identical rulers will be changed.
To change a set of dissimilar rulers, select the paragraphs you wish to change, then make the change to the Master Ruler. The changes will affect only the selected paragraphs.
The Right Line Wrap icon () indicates where lines of text will wrap onto a new line. To adjust this position, click on and drag the Right Line Wrap icon () to the left. (Moving the icon into the grey region is not possible. The grey region represents the page margin limits. To expand the margin limits you must choose Layout Page… and then drag the margin limits on the layout display. To extend them to their maximum possible values choose Expand Margins from the Layout menu in Layout Page.)
The same can be done with the Left Line Wrap. However the indent Icon () will be on top of the Left Line Wrap Icon so the two together will look more like this: . The two icons can be separated by dragging. The Line Wrap Icon indicates where each wrapped line will begin. The Indent Icon () indicates where each new Paragraph will start. In other words, every time the Return Key is used, a new paragraph line will start at the location represented by the Indent Icon. These two icons can be moved independently to allow both indents and outdents (hanging indents).
Tabs. There are four different kinds of tabs in Nisus. They are as follows;
Left Justified Tab:
Center Justified Tab:
Right Justified Tab:
Decimal Justified Tab:
To set one of these tabs simply click and drag the tab from the Tab Well to the desired position on the ruler. To remove a tab drag it off the ruler and it will disappear. Each one of these tabs can have a leader. To choose a leader double click on the tab icon.
This is just a basic explanation of the Icons on the Master Ruler. For more information see the file “Info on ¶ & Rulers” supplied with this demo.
In order to start playing with the Graphics Sheets you must click on the Graphics Palette icon. It looks like this: and is located on the top part of the vertical scroll bar. Alternatively you can choose the Graphics Palette command from the Display submenu which is under the Tools menu.
Click on the Graphics Palette Icon, which will bring the Graphics Palette to the top of the page. Your I-beam () will now become a pointer . The pointer allows you to select various graphics tools as well as graphic objects in your document. To select one of the numbered objects at the end of this document, first change to the Graphics Sheets then either click on any black portion of the object, or enclose it in a Dotted Selection Rectangle by clicking and dragging the pointer. Any object wholly contained in the Selection Rectangle will be selected. (Using the Option key while clicking and dragging will select any object merely touched by the Selection Rectangle.)
To select multiple objects use the Shift key while selecting objects. An object is selected when little black boxes, like this: (called Handles) appear at the four corners of the object. To re-size an object drag its handles. You can move the object by clicking on any black part of the object and dragging it.
Try putting the circle at the end of this document into the square and then re-size the triangle to fit it into the circle. To jump to the end of the document you can press the Option key and double click on the word PlayArea, or use the Marker PlayArea (on the Jump To submenu of the Tools menu). The markers can only be used on the text layer.
In order to fill a particular object with a pattern, the object or graphic must be selected. Therefore to fill the circle with checkers, select the circle, and then click on the checkered pattern which is on the pattern palette. When you click on the pattern, this Icon: changes to this: The arrow indicates that the inside of the selected object will be filled with the chosen pattern. Clicking on the above icon will change the Fill Pattern Selector Icon from this: to this: which indicates that the object Lines will be black or any other chosen pattern These icons will affect only selected objects.
Thickness or the weight of the object lines is adjusted using this icon:. Clicking on the horizontal line segments in the icon above will make the icon look like this: and will change a selected object from this: to this:.
Select all the objects in the Play Area and choose Group from the Graphics menu. Multiple objects that are grouped are treated as if they were in fact a single object. Of course you can Ungroup objects that were previously Grouped. In fact you can Undo, everything that you have done, thus far. Try it. Just select Undo from the Edit menu. See just how forgiving Nisus can be.
Drag object 1 out of the play area and place it into this text. Now click on the Text Wrap menu. It looks like this: A menu with two commands will pop down. Chose the Text Wrap On command. The icon will look like this:. To make an object transparent, click on the Opaque/Transparent menu: on the Graphics Palette and choose Transparent. Then it will look like this:. To select an object that is transparent, you must click on the object line itself. Merely clicking inside the object will not select it, as it is empty. If there is a pattern inside the object, you may click on any black part of the object.
On the Graphics Sheets you can have two overlapping objects. Using the Send To Back or Bring To Front the overlapping objects can be arranged in any way you want. All these commands are under the Graphics menu which appears at the right side of the screen when the Graphics Palette is selected.
Bring To Front and Send To Back are also handy when trying to select a small object which is covered by a larger object. The larger object can be sent back leaving the smaller object on top to be easily selected.
Try typing some text on the Graphics sheets. To do this click on this: icon. Click on the screen where you would like some text. A text box like this: will appear. Just type in your text. The text box will "grow" as you type. After you finish typing you can select the Pointer once again to re-size the Text window.
This concludes the basic tour of the Nisus Graphics Palette.
