Basic Drawing - 10

Editing Text.-

When some text has been included in a drawing and, afterwards, it is needed to modify it, the process is very similar to the first variation of including text:

The text object should be selected clicking on its support line. The mouse cursor moved to the extreme right white point. When done, the point will change to green and the line to purple. At the same time, the text of the object will appear on the text field window with the cursor at its end.

In this situation, using the keyboard, the text can be corrected, modified or changed in its totality. Once done, just moving the mouse cursor will made appear the new text over the support line. Finally, clicking anywhere outside the text object, will deselect it and the new text will remain.

For including not horizontal text, just working with the support line as a standard line, it will be possible to change its inclination, rotate it, scale it (scaling the text) and so on.

It is also possible to change the size of the fonts using the “Scale” button/item on the menu Text.

To change the fonts, once selected the object, the button/item with the name “Font” should be used.

To write math text everything should be writing as in standard latex. If the “big math characters” are wanted, the instruction “\displaystyle” should be the first in the text included. Otherwise, including the text between “$” signs will be enough.

Finally, it should be mentioned that using other fonts than the “computer modern” it will not be possible to write math text, nor to include accents on the normal text.


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Madrid, January 2006