Basics
Before you start creating or editing text, it is recommended that you familiarize yourself with the preferences for text and adapt them to your way of working.
To add text to an empty text frame or edit existing text, select the Tool Text content and click in the text frame. The text cursor is placed at the clicked position.
Views
For creating and editing texts you have the possibility to select different view modes. Click on an icon in the toolbar View to switch to the desired view.
View Toolbar: A: Script View, B: Galley View, C: Tile Horizontally, D: Page View
Script view: The text runs across the entire window width, only the paragraph formats are displayed, there is no line counting, thus no display of underset or overset.
Galley view: Checked out articles are opened in this view by default. This already takes into account the typeset width, which is defined by the frame or column width.
The serial line numbering, separately for each paragraph style, and the name of each paragraph style are shown in the line ruler to the left of the story text. You can hide or show the line ruler in the View menu.
The color in which the numbering of the body text is shown changes depending on how “full” the size of the text frame or link defined in the layout is.
Black = underset: The text frame or link is not quite full.
Green = full: The text fits perfectly into the text frame or link.
Red = overset: One or more characters do not fit into the text frame or link.
The exact number of lines is shown in the status bar at the bottom of the window, including the number of missing or excess lines.
Tile Horizontally: Simultaneously shows the galley and page views in a divided window.
Page View: Layout view with images.
Quotation marks, spelling and autocorrection
The settings and instructions for this can be found here.
Navigation within text
To place the cursor at a specific location in the text, click with the text tool selected. However, if you prefer to work with the keyboard, you can also navigate in the text using the arrow keys.
Following are the commands:
Arrow up |
moves the cursor one line up |
Arrow down |
moves the cursor one line down |
Arrow right |
moves the cursor one letter to the right |
Arrow left |
moves the cursor one letter to the left |
<Cmd>/<Ctrl> + Arrow right |
moves the cursor one word to the right |
<Cmd>/<Ctrl> + Arrow left |
moves the cursor one word to the left |
Pos 1 |
moves the cursor to the beginning of the line |
End |
moves the cursor to the end of the line |
<Cmd>/<Ctrl> + Pos 1 |
moves the cursor to the beginning of the text |
<Cmd>/<Ctrl> + End |
moves the cursor to the end of the text |
Selecting text
In order to perform certain text operations such as formatting, moving, copying or deleting text blocks, you must first select these text passages. To do this, click at the beginning of the text to be selected, hold down the left mouse button and move the cursor to the end of the text to be selected. Selected text is highlighted with the color selected in the preferences.
Sometimes it is difficult to select text passages in a very small text with the mouse. You can use the same commands for selecting as for moving in the text, you just have to press the <Shift> key additionally.
You can select a word by double-clicking on it. In the preferences, you can specify whether the following space is included in the selection. A triple click selects the paragraph.
Further selection options are provided by the context menu (right mouse button) or the menu item Edit > Select Text:
Context menu / Edit menu > Select Text
Text editing by drag and drop
If you activate this option in the preferences for text, selected texts can be moved and dropped with the mouse button pressed. The behavior of the program corresponds to the Cut and Paste functions.
If you hold down the <Cmd> or <Ctrl> key at the same time, the text is not moved but copied. The behavior of the program corresponds to the Copy and Paste functions.
Select the text passage you want to move.
Click in the selection and hold down the left mouse button.
Move the cursor to the place where the passage is to be inserted and release the mouse button. The passage is moved or copied.
The following operations are possible:
•Drag and drop within an article
•Drag and drop between different articles
•Drag and drop from an external program
•Drag and drop into an external program
If you enable the Insert text without style when using drag & drop option in the Preferences, moved texts will automatically take on the style of the target paragraph.
Autotext
Frequently used phrases or terms can be saved as text modules via this function and called up as required via their name. To save Autotext, proceed as follows:
Enter the text to be saved as autotext and select it.
In the menu, select the command Edit > Autotext...
In the following window, the selected text area is already entered in the lower field. Enter a name for the text module in the Name field and click the upper [Insert] button. The text module is saved and the window is closed.
The window Autotext
The saved text modules can be inserted into the text in two ways:
1.Place the cursor at the intended text position and select Edit > Autotext in the menu. Select the desired text module, then click the [Insert] button. The text module is inserted at the cursor position.
2.Enter the name of the text module at the designated position and select Edit > Replace Autotext in the menu. The text module is inserted at the cursor position, overwriting the name.
Find and replace
You can find a detailed description of this function here.
Loading text
The MarkStein Publisher offers the possibility to load externally stored texts. An overview of the numerous document formats that the program can process can be found here.
To do this, place the cursor at the intended position and select the Insert > Text... command in the menu. Select the desired text file in your file system and click the [Open] button.
Insert special characters
The Insert menu allows you to insert numerous special characters into the text that are difficult or impossible to reach using the keyboard.
The first four menu items Space, Line Break, Dashes and Quotation Marks can also be found in the context menu.
The menu Insert
Path text
Proceed as follows if you want to create a text that runs along a path:
Create the path using the Draw Bézier Line tool. The basics of how this tool works and how to use it can be found here.
The path intended for the text.
Select the object and open the properties window via the menu Object > Properties or with the key combination <Cmd>/<Ctrl> + <Shift> + I.
Switch to the Text tab and select the Type on path check box.
Confirm your settings by clicking the [OK] button. To enter the text, click on the path with the text content tool selected.
The Properties window, Text tab.
Effect: Rainbow aligns the characters along the path, Stair steps aligns the characters vertically.
Placement: Outside places the text above the path, Inside below.
The different effects and placements
X Offset: This value moves the text along the path, so it acts like an indent.
Y-Offset: This value regulates the distance of the text to the path.
Here, an X offset of 10 mm and a Y offset of 3 mm is entered.
In the properties window shown above, you can assign a background color to the path object in the Frame tab and specify the weight and color of the stroke in the Stroke tab.
