Hello All,

Best season greetings to all of you! I wish you a very happy  
Christmas and a peaceful, happy and fruitful new year!

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Hello Kino,

Thank you for your new macro. Although I don't understand well what  
is the point of your macro (I have never made an index with NWP...),  
I guess that your macro has *also* some "educational" purpose, in the  
sense that it can probably be a prototype for many macros of the same  
kind. So I would like to ask you to explain us the meaning of your  
macro lines, to instruct us about the macro language.

I think that the new Nisus macro language (which is now not so  
new...) is a very powerful tool offered to users, but its usefulness  
remains very limited, because it appears to many of us excessively  
difficult to understand. The lack of an easy tutorial is a very  
important shortcoming in NWP as a product. It would seem to me that  
your macro(s) can be very good model(s) to begin to understand better  
this macro language, and a guide to try to write ourselves macros  
which we would need (even if in fact, it is difficult to do that...)

It seems to me that your macro parses the entire texts of a document  
looking for a specific attribute (the existence of a link in this  
case), making a "list" of all the instances of texts with a link,  
then goes through it from the end to the beginning, inserting after  
each instance a text consisting of the "prefix" plus the link text  
plus the "postfix". Is this right?

Can I ask you to add comments to your macro lines, so that we would  
be able to understand a little better their meaning; then perhaps I  
would ask you more questions about some of the points which will be  
more difficult to understand, etc.

Thank you very much in advance.

Best regard,

Nobumi Iyanaga
Tokyo,
Japan