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Editing Tags

To edit a tag in your document, just click it. A dialog with the tag's settings pops up. Edit the settings, and then click Done (or click outside the pop-up dialog).

To remove a tag from a document, click the Delete Tag button in its pop-up dialog. You can also place the insertion point after the tag marker in the text and press the Delete key.

Global and local tags

You can add tags that affect all the text that follows. These are known as global tags. You can also add two-part tags that consist of a start and end marker and only affect the text that is found between these two markers. These are local tags. Global and local tags can be told apart by their markers.

Global tag Global tag. Affects all the text that follows it until another tag of the same type appears.
Local tag - Start Local tag. Start marker. Text is affected starting from this point up to the tag's end marker.
Local tag - Start Local tag. End marker. Signals the end of the effect that began with the corresponding start marker.

If there is no selected text in your document, a global tag is added. To change this tag to a local one, select the Local change option. The tag will split into start and end markers. You can now drag the markers to the places you want in the text.

Adding a global tag

If your document has selected text, a local tag is added. Start and end markers are automatically placed at the beginning and at the end of the selected fragment when you click a tag in the Tags pane.

Adding a local tag

Nesting Tags

You can add tags so that their effects overlap and combine. For example, you can make your computer start reading text in a "narrator's" voice, and then introduce two different voices to imitate a dialogue, increase the speech rate and volume as if the speakers were arguing, and then return to the calm voice of the narrative. This requires enclosing tags with other tags; in other words, "nesting" them. A tag placed between another tag's start and end markers does not cancel the effect of those markers. Rather, it adds its own effect. If two tags of the same kind overlap (two "Volume" tags, for example), the effect of the tag that comes later in the text overrides the effect of the earlier tag's start marker.

The following example should help you to understand how tag nesting works: Imagine you see something like this in a GhostReader Plus window. What effects will the tags have?

Example of nesting
  1. A global language tag starts GhostReader Plus reading narrative text in the default voice that you have set for U.S. English.
  2. A nested local tag changes the voice to one that you have chosen for a character's direct speech. After this tag is closed (with an end marker), the text is read in the default voice again.
  3. The reading voice changes to the character's voice again, and then back to the default voice after the tag is closed.

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