Description Screen - Paragraphs

Text in the Description screen can be arranged in separate paragraphs. A paragraph is a portion of text that is ended with a hard return. Every paragraph has a number of settings that can be modified, such as alignment, indentation, line spacing and pagination.

Note: You can create a hard return by pressing the ENTER key at the end of a text. To see the formatting symbols, click ¶ on the Description toolbar, or in the View menu Description Screen Options > Options > ¶ Show/Hide.

You can change paragraph settings as follows:

1. Place the cursor in the Description screen at the place you want to apply the settings, or select those paragraphs to which you want to apply new settings.
2. Choose Paragraph from the context menu.
   
   Note: Some of the paragraph settings can be adjusted on the Description toolbar (see Description Screen Toolbars). Whenever an option is also available on the toolbar, it will be indicated with a ‘*’ in the rest of this explanation.
   
3. The Paragraph window has two tabs:
   
   

   Indents and Spacing tab:

   
   
   You can change the following settings in the Indents and Spacing tab:
   
   - Alignment*; horizontal alignment of the paragraph/text.
   - Outline Level; The level of the Outline.
   - Indentation:

   1. Left and Right; indent the entire paragraph with a certain amount of centimetres from the left and/or the right.
   2. Special and By; Indent the first line of the paragraph from the left by a specific number of centimetres.

          - Spacing:

1. 1. Before and After; vertical free space (height in pts) before and after the paragraph.

   2. Line Spacing and At; relative distance between lines (single, 1.5 lines, double).

Line and Page Breaks tab:

You can change the following settings on the Line and Page Breaks tab:

1. Keep lines together; prevents (an automatic) page break in a paragraph.
2. Page break before; Inserts a page break before the selected paragraph.