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Parts of an EasiWriter document

EasiWriter documents are displayed as a sequence of pages. Each page contains an area for the main text body and can contain areas for headers and footers.

The page size used can be varied, and can be set from the printer driver's Icon bar menu. The typing area can be varied by choosing Page setup... from the Misc menu. Left and right pages can have the same margins or can be mirrored. Page breaks are calculated automatically as you type.

Paragraphs

At its simplest an EasiWriter document consists of a series of paragraphs, each of which is terminated by pressing Return.

Structures

EasiWriter documents consist of a series of structures which can be comprised of more than one element such as a table which has several cells or a section which can have a heading and several paragraphs. EasiWriter supports the following structures:

Structures are discussed more fully in the next section.

Headers and footers

Headers and footers are special parts of a document which are repeated on each page. Their content can be different for left-hand and right-hand pages. Headers and footers can contain:

Headers and footers can be made to appear:

If the contents header or footer is deeper than the allocated space a warning dialogue will appear.

See Chapter Two Using EasiWriter for further details.

Spacing

EasiWriter allows very fine adjustments to be made to the spacing between lines of text and between paragraphs and structures in increments of points (approximately 1/72 inch).

Line spacing is measured from the bottom of one line of text to the bottom of the following line (baseline to baseline).

Space before and space after refers to the additional space between paragraphs and structures. It is possible to specify the separation before and after headings, paragraphs, sections, lists etc.

Emphasis

Any portion of text (including a single character) can be selected and be given emphasis in any font, style or size.

Emphasis can be used to:


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