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 Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 12:25 am Post subject: HandFormat button - show spaced text, like poetry or columns |
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Button name: HandFormat
Button feature or effect: Let's you position text and images with your spacebar. With HandFormat, text and images show in your published page just the way you formatted. It's useful for different page layouts, such as poetry, data in columns or any text you need displayed uniquely spaced, . (Without using the HandFormat feature, spaced out text automatically has spaces stripped out.)..
Two things you can do:
Decorative layout done using the HandFormat button:
Data arranged in columns done with HandFormat:
| Quote: | Why do you need HandFormat? Normally, if you try to format text by hand on a page, by using the space bar to position text or an image, when you save that text, all of the first spaces on lines are stripped away. Multiple spaces inside of lines are reduced to a single space. Like this:
Of course, there are command (buttons) that will center things or make them go flush right. And there are ways to do some advanced table coding (programming, really) to achieve special layouts, but HandFormat is for occasions when you need to easily position text exactly the way you want. |
With the "HandFormat" button text will show in the book exactly in the "layout" that you created.
How to use it: Prepare the text in the way you want it to look. Then highlight it and click the "HandFormat" button.
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<pre style="font-family: arial;">
Dozens of cars and a few trucks
filling
the graveled parking lot.
Light beaming from large plate glass
windows...neatly framed
indications of
lively activity within,<pre>
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If you wish to show data in columns you have to remove the font style from the code (so it is just <pre>) so it looks like this:
Note: With columned data presentations you are limiited to using bold or italic for any special font formatting. One further guideline with data in columns is to postiion the beginning code (<pre>) and any format code like bold <b>on a lines by themselves
What you Can and Can't do:
You can:
1. Format all or part of your text in a different font or size.
2. Use Bold and italic.
3. Use the Heading button.
4. Insert images (be sure you know their size in relation to the page).
5. Space letters and words with as many spaces as you wish.
6. Have leading spaces on any line as many as you wish.
You can't:
1.You can't type long lines wider than your page width. HandFormat turns off "wrap."
2. You can't Use the font style with data in columns.
3. You can't use features like Thumb, or Center or Right. (this is "Hand" formatting).
Advanced things you can do with HandFormat
A.. You can use the font command inside of your HandFormat text to do different effects,
B . You can have images positioned with the space bar (be sure they are small enough for the page).
Here is an example of using the font command inside of HandFormat:
| Quote: | | Note: With HandFormat, you should experiment to discover it's limitations and you will quickly discover how to use it to best advantage. |
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