Text tool
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Use this tool for creating text frames. It also activates the text
mode. If you want to create a text frame, select this tool to create a
new frame in the document.
When you have selected an already existing text frame (with the
Selection tool) and then clicked on the frame using the Text tool, the
text frame's mode will change into text mode. This means you can edit
text, add or change text rulers and text styles, text fields etc.
If you move the mouse cursor in text mode over a frame which is
not a text frame, the mouse cursor changes into a converter mouse
cursor.
If you click on the 'other frame' now, it will be converted into a
text frame. The frame will keep its assigned shape, which offers
various design possibilities.
- Text ruler
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Above each text frame a text ruler is shown which is similar to
the one e.g. TextEdit uses. When you move the text cursor through a
text which uses more than one text ruler, the text ruler view above
the frame will be updated automatically to always show the currently
valid text ruler.
You can choose in the upper left area of the text ruler which text
ruler (from the Text Ruler inspector) should be used for the frame or
the selected text section.
In the upper right area of the text ruler you see various supported
tab stops. At the moment iCalamus supports the following types of tab
stops:
- Left tab stop
- Center tab stop
- Right tab stop
- Decimal tab stop
Simply drag these tab stops to the text ruler. While dragging, the
current position will be shown in a tooltip. You can easily remove tab
stops from a ruler again by dragging them out of the ruler with the
mouse.
In the left and right edges of the text ruler you see some elements,
which define the left border, left indent and right border.
All settings which can be made directly in the text ruler with the
mouse, can be defined numerically directly in the Text Ruler
inspector, where you can manage the various text rulers global for the
current document. Name, copy, delete them in the Inspector, etc.
