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Mouse Editing

Editing with the mouse is a very simple, but slow process. Usually, you will mix it with one of the two others. You can do the following :

Setting a cursor position

To set the current cursor position, simply click on the hieroglyphic panel.

Selecting a zone

The selection stands between the cursor, and what is called the mark. The whole selection is drawn in light blue. Some operations are possible only if a zone of text is selected.

To select a zone of text, you can use a number of ways :

Adding a sign chosen from a menu

The hieroglyphs menu gives access to the signs of the standard Gardiner list. Simply select a sign, and it will be added at the cursor position.

Grouping signs

This is done using the "Text manipulation" menu. You can group signs into vertical or horizontal groups, by selecting the signs (or cadrats), and choosing either "group horizontal" or "group vertical". Note that you can break the groups with the menu "explode group". All kinds of groups can be "exploded".

"Group Horizontal" has the keyboard shortcut "Ctrl-h"

"Group Vertical" has the keyboard shortcut "Ctrl-g"

Ligatures

JSesh knows a number of "special groups".

Editing groups

When you meet a very specific group, one-of-a-kind type, in which you want to place the signs exactly where you want, you can select the edit group menu entry. The edited group will be either the selected group, if there is a selection (overlined in blue), or the last group before the cursor, if there is no selection.

It will open the following window :

group editor

You will be able to move the signs, to scale them, and to rotate them. Note that scaling and rotations are triggered by two buttons. To move a sign, click on it and drag it where you want. To rotate or scale it, click and drag one of the small red boxes around the currently selected sign.

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Last modified: Tue May 3 13:27:10 CEST 2005