F12 Overlay Window (Larger Attribute Editing Window

Figure 9: “Attributes (F1)” in high view window layout (Ctrl+Alt+T) for an eleven-lingual AIDS terminology list [Data: © Department of Arts & Culture, South Africa]

Note that although the wide and high view window layouts were illustrated for the “Attributes (F1)” sub-window, these views are also available for all other sub-windows (F2 to F6).

F12 Overlay Window (Larger Attribute Editing Window)

In addition to the “wide” tools window layout, another option to gain more editing space for editing the content of text boxes is the F12 overlay window. While in an “Attributes (F1)” text box, pressing F12 will pop up a larger window for editing the given attribute. Once done, pressing F12 closes the window again. While the F12 window is open, you can select any “Attributes (F1)” window, and the F12 window will automatically switch to editing that attribute. This window also allows newline characters to be entered in a more intuitive way. The F12 window also works in various text edit boxes elsewhere in the software. (This can be useful particularly when editing certain types of text values, such as a Lua script.)