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Welcome to the Spoken Tutorial on “Text tool features” using Inkscape.

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In this tutorial we will learn about

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Manual kerning

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Spell checking

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Super-script

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Sub-script

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To record this tutorial, I am using

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Ubuntu Linux 12.04 OS

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Inkscape version 0.48.4

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I will be recording this tutorial in maximum resolution mode. This is to accommodate all the tools that will be demonstrated.

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Let us open Inkscape.

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Earlier in the series, we learnt to create and format text using the Text tool.

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Now, we will learn some important features of the Text tool. Click on it

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Let us start with Manual kerning.

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Horizontal kerning, Vertical shift and Character rotation are called manual kerns.

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Type the word “Spoken”.

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Keep the cursor after the alphabet “S”.

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Horizontal kerning adds space after the selected letter.

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Click on the up and down arrows to increase or decrease the space between the letters “S” and “p”.

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Notice that the space is introduced only between the letters “S” and “p”.

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Let me keep the Horizontal kerning parameter as 3.

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The next icon, i.e. Vertical shift, shifts the letters after the selected letter, up or down.

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Click on the up and down arrows.

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Observe the letters after the cursor have shifted up and down.

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Keep this parameter as 15.

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Next, we will rotate our characters using Character rotation.

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This icon rotates only a single character which is right after the cursor.

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So, place the cursor before the letter “e”.

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Click on the up and down arrows of Character rotation and observe that the letter “e” rotates.

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To apply the kerns to more than one character, select the characters first then give the values.

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Let me select the letters “p” and “o” and give Horizontal kerning parameter as 5

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Vertical shift parameter as 10 and

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Character rotation parameter as 20.

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Observe the changes.

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To remove the kerns, go to Text menu.

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Click on Remove Manual Kerns.

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Manual Kerns can be used only in Regular text.

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In Flowed text, these options will be disabled.

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To check, create a text box.

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Observe the Manual kerns options are now disabled.

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Press Ctrl + Z to undo this action.

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Next we will learn about Spell check feature.

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To explain the Spell check feature, I will copy text from LibreOffice writer that I had saved already.

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Press Ctrl + A to select the entire text and then press Ctrl + C to copy it.

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Now come back to Inkscape.

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Click on the canvas and press Ctrl + V to paste the text.

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Go to Text menu and click on Check Spelling option.

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A new dialog box appears.

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All text is checked, regardless of whether it is selected or not.

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When a suspect word is found, it will be highlighted with a red box and the cursor will be placed before the text.

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A list of suggestions appears for the word “http”.

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Since the spelling is correct we will add this word to the dictionary.

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To do so, click on Add to Dictionary button.

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This will cause the spell checker to accept the word as correctly spelled always.

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Next, the word “tutorial” is highlighted.

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Since the spelling is wrong, select the correct word from the suggestion list, which is “tutorial”.

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Now click on “Accept” button.

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If you click on Ignore, all other similarly spelled words in the document will get ignored.

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If you click on Ignore once, the word will get ignored only once i.e first time only.

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If you want to stop the spell-checking process, click on Stop.

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We can restart the process by clicking the Start button.

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Spell checking will begin with the text at the top-right and work down the canvas.

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Let us close this dialog box now and keep this text aside.

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Next, we will learn to write Superscript and Subscript.

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Type the mathematical formula (a+b)2 = a2+b2+2ab.(a + b whole square is equal to a sqaure plus b square plus 2ab  )

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We have to change the number 2 as square in three places.

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Select the first 2. Go to Tool controls bar. Click on Toggle Superscript icon.

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In a similar way, change the remaining 2s.

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Next, we will write a chemical formula using subscript.

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So, type “H2SO4”.

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Here 2 and 4 should be written as subscripts.

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First select 2. Go to Tool controls bar and click on Toggle Subscript icon.

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In a similar way change the 4.

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Let us summarize.

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In this tutorial we have learnt

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Manual kerning

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Spell checking

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Super-script

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Sub-script

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Here are 2 assignments for you

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Write the text “How are you” and change the font size to 75

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Keep the cursor next to “w”. Change Horizontal kerning parameter to -20.

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Select the words “are”. Change the Vertical shift parameter to 40.

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Select the words “you”. Change the Character rotation parameter to -30.

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Write the following formulae using Sub-script and Super-script options

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Silver sulfate - Ag₂SO₄2.

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a2−b2=(a−b)(a+b)

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Your completed assignment should look like this.

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The video available at the following link summarizes the Spoken Tutorial project. Pls watch it.

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For more details, please write to us.

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Spoken Tutorial Project is supported by the NMEICT, MHRD, Government of India.

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More information on this Mission is available at this link.

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We have come to the end of this tutorial.

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This is Arthi and Priya from IIT Bombay, signing off. Thanks for joining.