On 6/16/11, Nobumi Iyanaga wrote:

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>I don't understand what differences you find between the user-defined rulers and user-defined styles (which are in NWP).

There is no difference in function. The difference is that I knew how to export the data in NW Classic. :-) This was possible using the "RulerName" macro object. There may be an equivalent for paragraph styles in NW Pro -- but I haven't found it.

The problem for me with the transition to NW Pro is that I used NW Classic mostly as a text processor, not a word processor, and that meant that I had a very large collection of macros. It took me years to create those, and not only has the macro language changed, but even the GREP format has changed. Often that means that, to convert a macro, I have to take the REGEX strings in NW Classic, paste them into PowerFind Pro, convert them to PowerFind to know what they were, then recreate them in NW Pro. The languages are different enough that this is a difficult task.

>What you need, I think, is a plain text with style names and bold and italic tags.

Yes.

>I think this is not too difficult to do with the new NWP macro. I have not a ready macro for such a purpose, but a macro like Kino's "SelectByStyle.nwm" (<http://www2.odn.ne.jp/alt-quinon/files/NWPro/select/SelectByStyle_nwm.zip>) would help you very much to write a macro for your needs.
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>I use a similar macro to generate tex format files from a NWP files.

This sounds like it should help. Thank you -- I appreciate it.

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