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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. 

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

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

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The text HUD lets you change the font, size, and whether the type is bold, italic, underlined, or struck through. For now, this applies to all text in a frame. 

Current text behavior is somewhat odd: there's no cursor, and the text insertion point is always at the end of text. You can use BACKSPACE to delete text. This will change in future iterations of Sophie.