5. Working with Text
This section of the documentation explains how text works in Sophie books. In this release of Sophie, text editing is limited; in future releases, more functionality will be added. The way text works now is not necessarily the way it will work in the future.
For now, a text frame is added to a Sophie page by using Insert > Text. This will insert a new 280 x 210 pixel text frame.
You'll note that there's a special halo visible, the text halo:
If you click on this, you can open the text HUD, which looks like this:
The text HUD lets you change the font, size, and whether the type is bold, italic, underlined, or struck through. For now, this applies to all text in a frame.
Current text behavior is somewhat odd: there's no cursor, and the text insertion point is always at the end of text. You can use BACKSPACE to delete text. This will change in future iterations of Sophie.
Cutting, copying, and pasting is currently implemented in a provisional way: if you have the cursor inserted in a text frame and press control-c, the entire text of the frame will be copied. (Control-x will cut the entire copy of the frame.) Pressing control-v will paste whatever's on the clipboard into the current frame; however, this may not always work for text copied from outside of Sophie.
