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The card editor

The card editor is divided into several tabbed windows, each containing controls for editing information on the currently focussed card.

Description

Enter scene or other notes here. The text will be shown in the card on the storylines window as you type.

Content

This window can contain any prose or dialogue you have for this card, as it will appear in your story. If writing dialogue, you can format your dialogue in a specific way that will be recognised by StoryLines.

[FADE IN:]

John:

And I said to Fiona, this really will not do.

Tim:

  (wincing)
What did Fiona say to that?

> John pours himself another cup of tea.

John:

Absolutely nothing.

        [CUT TO:]

* Another scene
During editing, you can (optionally) have StoryLines colour the different elements as you type. This highlighting can be customized from the Content Highlighting Settings Dialog. The highlighting facility is currently only available under Windows.

During report generation, the elements of this text will be formatted using the appopriate paragraph styles, which will be preserved when exporting to word processor files.

Setting

This window contains controls for editing information about the setting for this card's scene. The controls are Location (Interior/Exterior/Unknown), Time (Day/Night/Unknown), and Location details (an arbitrary string).

Annotation

Notes about this card that do not belong in the main description. For example you might want to jot down some research related to this scene. Cards that have annotations are shown in the storylines window with a yellow top-right corner.