Hello Žorvaršur Davķšsson,
Sorry, I misunderstood "using text selection." I am only a rudimentary user of NWP and do not know how to make macros.
(I am an admirer of Conrad's work, however.)
Michael M. Cass
OS X 10.6.2
MacBook Pro
On 14 Mar 2010, at 6:40 PM, Žorvaršur Davķšsson wrote:
> On 14.03.2010, at 21:36, Michael Cass wrote:
>
>> Make the selection in your document. Then Nisus Writer Pro > Services > New Nisus Document with Selection. (...)
>>
>>> How can I save a document on the desktop with a macro using a text selection from the document?
>
>
> Hello Michael,
>
> this is something different. What I wanted to do was NOT to make a new document from a selection but to *save* the document using a selection in the document. Let me explain
>
> 1) I copy , for example, a long text from a web page using Safari
> 2) then I switch to NWP, create a new document and paste the text
> 3) If I now press Command + S the first few words in the document will be suggested as a title. Now suppose I don't want the first few words to be used as a title but words that are somewhere else in the document. So I select those words, and now I need a macro that can use the selection and save the document *automatically* using the selection as title. Most people would just select the text, then press Command + S and finally manually paste the text into the "Save As" field. What I want to do is to skip the last step!
>
> Example:
>
> I paste this text into NWP
>
> --BEGINN OF TEXT
> original name Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, English novelist and short-story writer of Polish descent, whose works include the novels Lord Jim (1900), Nostromo (1904), and The Secret Agent (1907) and the short story Heart of Darkness (1902). During his lifetime Conrad was admired for the richness of his prose and his renderings of dangerous life at sea and in exotic places.
> --END OF TEXT
>
> I want to select the word (or name) "Conrad", press a menu key and automatically save the document with the title "Conrad".
>
>
> Žorvaršur
> OS X 10.4.11
> Power Mac G4
>
> P.S. Since we are at it, any Joseph Conrad fans here?
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