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= 5. Working with Text =

This section of the documentation explains how text works in Sophie books. In this release of Sophie, text editing is limited; in future releases, more functionality will be added. The way text works now is not necessarily the way it will work in the future.

For now, a text frame is added to a Sophie page by using '''Insert > Text'''. This will insert a new 280 x 210 pixel text frame. 

  [[Image(source:/branches/private/danvisel/sophie2-platform/doc/userdoc-images/RELEASE_9/TextFrameWithHalos.png)]]

You'll note that there's a special halo visible, the '''text halo'':

  [[Image(source:/branches/private/danvisel/sophie2-platform/doc/userdoc-images/RELEASE_9/TextHalo.png)]]

If you click on this, you can open the '''text HUD''', which looks like this:

  [[Image(source:/branches/private/danvisel/sophie2-platform/doc/userdoc-images/RELEASE_9/TextHUD.png)]]

Text editing functionality does exist internally in Sophie 2; it's been disabled for this release, and will return shortly. You can download [wiki:Download/Pre-alpha_3 Release 2] if you're interested in seeing Sophie's text-handling abilities in action.