Next you are going to copy a picture into the document and also import some text. You will learn how to:
Draw files, Sprites, JPEGs (RISC OS 3.6 on), Edit files and 1st Word Plus documents can all be incorporated into an EasiWriter document. EasiWriter can also read HTML, Word 6, 7, 8 and 9 (Office 2000) documents as well as import RTF documents.
EasiWriter has three ways of including pictures into a document:
In all cases the picture can be scaled and cropped.
You are going to add a bar graph to the document which will have a caption, so a Figure is the most suitable structure to use.
A Figure is a picture with a caption attached to it. By making it a structure EasiWriter knows that both the picture and its caption must stay together and not be split across columns or page breaks. A graph has been saved in the Tutorial directory which you are going to incorporate into an EasiWriter figure.
Next open a display on the directory containing the bar chart.
You can now move a copy of the bar chart draw file into the picture frame.
A copy of the bar graph will be inserted into the picture frame.
Figure captions can be placed above, below, to the left or to the right of the picture and can be moved at any time by selecting the figure and clicking Select on the Style button in the top right of the button bar or by choosing Change from the Format menu.
Before modifying a figure you must first select it.
The figure will become highlighted and the Style indicator at the top right of the window will change to Figure style.
All structures have format attributes which can be modified and, if required, saved for future use. The actual attributes that can be changed vary depending on what type of structure is selected. Lists, for example, can have a different bullet character. Figures on the other hand can have a different caption position.
The caption will have moved to the right of the picture and will have been reformatted.
The appearance of this figure can be improved by adjusting the positions of the picture and text.
When the figure is selected the ruler shows you the margin positions for both the picture and its caption. You are going to move the picture's right hand margin marker and both the captions' markers to the left.
Markers on the ruler can be moved one at a time, or you can move all or some of the markers at the same time.
All three markers will have moved to the left.
At the moment both the picture and caption are centre aligned. Next you are going to align the picture to the right and its caption to the left.
The final change to be made is to move the caption down. This can be done using the Spacing command.
The spacing command can be used on any structure to change the space before and after it. Where appropriate it can also be used to change the spacing between lines of text.
The caption will move down.
Text written by 1st Word Plus, Edit or other applications that can write text files, can be copied into EasiWriter. You are going to create a new section and then import some text into it.
The caret will move to the next line ready to start a section heading.
Next you need to bring the 'Tutorial' directory to the front.
The text will be inserted into the project document at the caret position, the first paragraph will have become the section heading.
Next you are going to close the document and save the changes.
In this exercise you have learnt how to: