Item | Description |
Type | Type of the piece of text |
| material (up to 20 characters). |
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Title | Title of the piece of text |
| material (up to 40 characters). |
| When no title is specified, the |
| first 40 characters of the text |
| will be the title. |
| You can identify pieces of |
| materials by the type and title. |
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Effect | Select the text display effect |
| from the following: |
| Constant: Displays stable text. |
| Blink: Displays blinking text. |
| Scroll: Makes text flow across |
| the display from right to left. |
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Scroll speed | Select the speed of text flow, |
| when you select “Scroll” for |
| “Effect.” |
| Note that the scroll speed |
| settings of |
| 1.0 and version 2.0 are |
| different. |
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Transparency | Select whether the background |
(Not selectable in this | color should be transparent or |
version) | not. |
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Base character color | The square shows the current |
| text color. To change it, click |
| [Change Character Color] and |
| select the desired color in the |
| Edit Colors dialog box. |
| To change the color of the text |
| that has already been typed in |
| the Edit Text dialog box, right- |
| click the text and select |
| [Change Character Color]. |
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Background color | The square shows the current |
| background color. To change it, |
| click [Change Background |
| Color] and select the desired |
| color in the Edit Colors dialog |
| box. |
| The background color cannot |
| be changed partially. |
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The Text Properties dialog box closes.
5 Select the desired font and character size with the Font and Font Size dialog boxes in the Edit Text dialog box.
6 Type the desired text.
You can also copy text from another application program such as a word processor, and paste it in the Edit Text dialog box by pressing the Ctrl+V keys. To import a text file, click [Read Text File] and specify the file.
7 Click [OK].
The newly created piece of text material appears in the Content Management window.
To change the color of the text
Whereas the base color of the text is selected by clicking [Change Character Color] in the Text Properties dialog box, the following procedure changes the color of a part or of the entire piece of text that has already been typed.
1 Select the text for which you want to change the color by dragging the mouse in the Edit Text dialog box, then
2 Select [Change Character Color] on the popup menu.
The Text Color Settings dialog box appears.
3 Select the desired color in the Text Color Settings dialog box, then click [OK].
Hint
You can replace a color displayed in the Text Color Settings dialog box with a new one by clicking [Change Color], then selecting the color in the Edit Colors dialog box.
To select a style for the text
1 The
2 Select the text to which you want to assign styles by dragging the mouse in the Edit Text dialog box, then
3 Click [Font Style] on the popup menu, then click the command corresponding to the desired style on the cascading menu.
To remove the specified style from the text, click the command corresponding to the style to be removed (it has a check mark) in the same way, or click [Regular].
Note
The
To modify text material
Operations Routine 4 Chapter
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