Enhanced "Copy Formatted" command for Nisus Writer Pro

[Philologist]

I have Nisus Writer Pro as word processor in Bookends' Preferences. When I select one or more references in Bookends and then execute "Copy Formatted" from the Edit menu, formatted references are automatically entered into an open Nisus document. This is great. However, if there is *no* open Nisus document available, Bookends will

[1] copy selected references into the Clipboard
[2] switch to Nisus Writer Pro, and—because no open Nisus document is available—
[3] beep

I assume this is the intended behavior, but I wonder if it would be possible to enhance step [2] to call for the state of a Nisus document, i.e. find out whether an open Nisus document is available or not. If no document is available, a new document should be created instead of just beeping. This would make the "Copy Formatted" command much more effective.

Here is a Nisus macro that checks whether a document is open or not. Let's give it the name "Make sure there is an active Nisus document available".

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$doc = Document.active
$hasDoc = Defined $doc
If ! $hasDoc
	New
End

This macro could be called from Bookends with AppleScript:

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tell application "Nisus Writer Pro"
	Do Menu Macro with macro "Make sure there is an active Nisus document available"
end tell

[Jon]

In my case (NWP 2.1.6), if you close the NWP document and in Bookends do Command-K, when the switch occurs NWP opens a new document. Then a Command-V is all you need to do.

Jon
Sonny Software

[Philologist]

In Nisus' Preferences > General > Application there is an option to determine what the application should do on activation (Do nothing, Create a new document, etc.). If the option "Create a new document" is selected, then a new document is indeed created as you say, but a beep is still played. I'm curious, do you also hear the beep, or is it just me?

Thank you for looking into this.

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[Jon]

Yes, it beeps because Bookends doesn't get a confirmation that the Paste event was handled by NWP, and it's letting you know.

Jon
Sonny Software