Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of ITERATION_10/Release/UserDocumentation/05_WorkingWithText

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07/14/09 00:00:31 (16 years ago)

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danvisel

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+= 5. Working with Text =
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+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.
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+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. 
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+  [[Image(source:/branches/private/danvisel/sophie2-platform/doc/userdoc-images/RELEASE_9/TextFrameWithHalos.png)]]
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+You'll note that there's a special halo visible, the '''text halo'':
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+  [[Image(source:/branches/private/danvisel/sophie2-platform/doc/userdoc-images/RELEASE_9/TextHalo.png)]]
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+If you click on this, you can open the '''text HUD''', which looks like this:
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+  [[Image(source:/branches/private/danvisel/sophie2-platform/doc/userdoc-images/RELEASE_9/TextHUD.png)]]
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+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. 
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+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.
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+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.