User interaction for text editing

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User interaction for text editing

The Text and Frame Handles viewpreferences panels contain a series of options to determine the behavior and handling

of (text)frames when editing stories. 

 

Text View Preferences panel:

  • Select Text of new frames : enables editing mode when a new frame is created

  • Use text cursor by default : switches to text-editing tool when hovering over a text frame

  • Render texts during manual resize/move actions

  • Show Hidden Characters : shows hidden story editor characters

  • Show Missing Characters (Font) : indicates where missing font characters are placed

  • Create Bullet Lists :

  • Superscript Ordinals

  • View source on variable frames : shows source text of variables

  • Show tab ruler : shows inline text tab ruler above frame

  • Default placeholder text : standard Lorem ipsum for dummy text

  • Apply placeholder on new frames : fills new text frames with placeholder text


Frame handles View preferences panel:

  • Arrow key increments : incremental stepsize when using the arrow keys to move frames

  • Show move handle : shows the move handle at the top left frame corner, click on it to move the frame.

  • Show move handle during text edit : shows the move handle when in text editing mode.

  • Transparent selection : selects underlying object when clicking an empty area of an object above it