Annotate:
Annotate the currently selected text.
In order to select text, you must place
iSilo™ in select mode.
Note: The Annotate command is also available in the context
menu that appears immediately after you select text.
Select file dialog
If you have not yet associated an annotations file for the
document, then after invoking the Annotate command,
iSilo™ asks you to first select a file for the document's
annotations, which may be a new file or an existing annotations file.
In this case, you get the Select file dialog with a default name
for the annotations file and with a default location set to the same
location as the document. You can accept the default name and location
or enter a new name and/or select a different location. The
annotations file is separate from the document so that you can
copy it elsewhere, use it with the document on another platform
version of iSilo™, or provide it to another user
of the document, among other possible uses.
The default suggested name for the annotations file is the same
as the document file name, but with a .isa file name extension.
If you do not add a file name extension up to four characters,
iSilo™ automatically adds the .isa extension after
you press Done to the dialog.
After pressing Done in the Select file dialog, one of the
following cases will apply:
- The selected file does not exist: iSilo™ asks
you to confirm that you want to create the file. Press OK to create
the file and proceed with adding the first annotation to the file or press
Cancel to return to the Select File dialog to select a different file.
- The selected file exists but is not an annotations file:
iSilo™ informs you that the file is not an annotations
file and asks whether you want to overwrite the file. Press OK
to overwrite the file or press Cancel to cancel and return to the
document.
- The selected file exists and is an annotations file:
iSilo™ associates the annotations file with the document
so that any existing annotations in the file show in the document.
You then get the Annotation dialog to add the new annotation to the
existing annotations file.
Annotation dialog
The Annotation dialog provides the following three fields
for annotating text:
- Comment: Use this field to enter your comment for the
annotated text.
- Color: The annotated text can take one of the following
16 pre-defined colors:
- Yellow
- Fuchsia
- Red
- Maroon
- Purple
- Blue
- Navy
- Aqua
- Teal
- Lime
- Olive
- Green
- White
- Silver
- Gray
- Black
- Text: This field holds the actual selected text.
However, if the document text is protected from copying operations,
the field will be blank. You can modify the text in this field and also
use it as an additional field for commenting.
Press Cancel to not add the annotation and return to the document.
Press OK to add the annotation and return to the document.
The background of the annotated text appears in the selected annotation
color. When not in Select mode,
pressing the scroll key down with the cursor over any part of the
annotated text shows the comment for the annotation and the commands
View/Edit and Delete. Use View/Edit to modify
any of the comment, color, and text fields of the annotation.
Use Delete to delete the annotation with confirmation.
Only one annotation can occupy a given range of text. This means that
any portion of an existing annotation that overlaps the new annotation
range is removed from the existing annotation. If you add an
annotation that completely overlaps any existing annotation, that
existing annotation will be automatically deleted. If the new annotation
overlaps the middle of an existing annotation, the existing annotation
is automatically split into two annotations with identical comment,
color, and text fields.
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in the status bar
with a frame around it to indicate this.
You can exit select mode by selecting the command again, in which
case the icon disappears to indicate that you are no longer in select mode.
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does not appear on the status bar.
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status bar only if there is a previous location in the jump history.
Otherwise, the icon does not appear and the Back command is grayed
out in the menu.
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status bar only if there is a next location in the jump history.
Otherwise, the icon does not appear and the Forward command is grayed
out in the menu.
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then the icon does not appear on the status bar.
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then the icon does not appear on the status bar.
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