Apple 2 manual Simple Input Line, 7How an unlabeled text-input line works

C H A P T E R 6

Data Input

■Editing Let users edit text—select, delete, copy-and-paste, duplicate, and move.

■Formatting Let users format individual words and characters in several different fonts, styles, and sizes.

Where there is space to write paragraphs of text (not just single lines), the text input elements also have these capabilities:

■Word wrap Re-form lines of text as a user writes additional words, adjusting spaces between words and wrapping words from the end of a full line to the beginning of the next line without breaking in the middle of the word.

■Paragraph resizing Automatically lengthen or shorten a paragraph as a user adds or deletes words from it, and allow a user to select and manually resize paragraphs.

■Side-by-side paragraphs Create a new paragraph alongside an existing one when a user writes words far away from the existing paragraph.

Almost all of these capabilities apply both to recognized text and to ink text. The exception: Users cannot correct ink text, since it has not been recognized. (Users can edit ink text, however.)

Simple Input Line

A simple input line consists of a dotted line to write on, as shown in

Figure 6-7.

Figure 6-7How an unlabeled text-input line works

User writes above dotted line

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