Multiline Text

Multiline text can be created using the following automenu option within the Text command:

Multiline text may contain any number of lines and any number of characters within the line. When inputting the text content, press <Enter> to add a new paragraph or <Shift>+<Enter> to adding a new line.

Multiline text always lays within a single bounding rectangle. Size of a rectangle is not fixed. It expands or shrinks depending on the size of text content. When adding the content to a current line, the rectangle expands horizontally, when adding new lines - vertically. The direction of expansion or shrinkage depends on the selected position of text in relation to its anchor point.

The content of multiline text can be inputted directly on a drawing page/active WP or in the text editor.

Font parameters may be defined individually for each character. Paragraph parameters may be defined individually for each paragraph.

Creating a multiline text

Upon selecting a multiline text option in the automenu of the Text command, you need to define an anchor point in one of the ways described in the Position and Orientation of Text section.

Upon defining an anchor point, the creation of text gets finished and the system switches to the text content editing mode. A bounding rectangle with text cursor appears on a drawing page/active WP. The displayed size of the bounding rectangle is bigger than its actual size, due to offsets set in document parameters (Document Parameters > Page > View > Text frame size). Then you may additionally move or rotate the text using manipulators, customize the text position in relation to its anchor point and start inputting the text content. For the most part, the text content is inputted using the keyboard. Optionally, you may insert various elements into text using the automenu or the contextual menu of text content.

 

When editing content of a multiline text, following options are available in the automenu:

As you finished inputting the content and customizing the parameters of the current text, press , <Ctrl>+<Enter> or . In result, editing of the current text gets finished and the system proceeds to creating a next text.

If after creating a text you finish its editing without inputting any content, then the system asks the question:

Answering No deletes the empty text object.

Answering Yes keeps the empty text object. You can edit it later.

If you edit an already created empty text and leave it empty again, the question doesn't appear.