Hello Kino and others,

On May 20, 2011, at 4:05 AM, Kino wrote:

> And Nobumi will be pleased to find "Defining New Commands" (i.e.  
> subroutine or function) in NWP macro reference.

Yes, I found it, and I am very pleased! -- although I am not yet good  
enough in macros to make use of this feature. I would like to try  
though.

And I saw that it is now possible, among other things, to manipulate  
comments from within macros. This is something I wanted since long  
time: I am not sure if this is possible, but perhaps with this  
feature, it would be possible to "embed" macros in specific locations  
of a documents, just as we used to be able to do in Classic Nisus  
macros, using the "Invisible characters". You would select some  
portion of a document to which a comment is attached, and choose a  
macro manu (in Classic Nisus Writer I assigned "Option + Click" to  
this macro menu, which was extremely convenient...!); this would read  
the contents of the attached comment, and execute it as a macro. -- I  
used to use Invisible Characters in Classic Nisus Writer to do this  
kind of thing. I used these "invisible macros" almost always to make  
links inside other documents, and jump to specific locations inside  
these documents. Do you think such macro would be possible...? Of  
course I am aware of the virtual danger in making such "invisible  
embedded macros", but I think the advantage is important.

Some minor things that I still don't find in NWP 2.0:
1. the possibility of putting footnote/endnotes inside tables (when I  
convert MS Word documents which have these notes inside tables, this  
is very confusing, and complicated...);
2. the possibility of making tables larger than a page. Perhaps I am  
wrong, but it seems to me that this is currently not possible. For  
example, I have a rather long text, in its original language, and in  
its translation, and I would like to present the original text and  
the translation side by side, in a table of two columns. This is  
possible if the text can be shown in one page, but if it is longer,  
we have to make another table in a new page, etc., and this is very  
inconvenient... Again, MS Word is able to do this.

And two *major* improvement that we, Japanese (or Chinese, etc.) need  
desperately as soon as possible:
1. the possibility of vertical writing;
2. the possibility of putting "rubis" (glosses...).

Best regard,

Nobumi Iyanaga
Tokyo,
Japan