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You can subscribe to formatted text which has been published by a Sahafi document. You can also subscribe to unformatted ASCII text which has been published by another application supporting Publish/Subscribe.
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Create a text chain by creating text blocks and linking them with the linking tool.
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Select an insertion point anywhere in the text chain.
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Choose Subscribe To from the Edit menu. A dialog box lists the editions available to subscribe to. You can switch drives and open folders to locate other editions.
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Select the edition you want to subscribe to and click Subscribe.The formatted text in the edition flows into the current text chain. The original content of the chain is completely replaced by the formatted text from the edition. All the text blocks in the chain are displayed with a thick dark-gray border to indicate that the current chain is a subscriber. This border is only visible when the text chain has been activated for editing with the I-beam tool. As a default, a subscriber text chain is updated whenever the edition subscribed to has been changed.
To only get new edition data when you want, click in the subscriber's text chain with the I-beam tool, choose Subscriber Options from the Edit menu, and click Get Edition Manually.
To receive new editions manually, click in the subscriber's text chain with the I-beam tool, choose Subscriber Options from the Edit menu, and click Get Edition Now.
To open the document which created the text you are subscribing to, click in the subscriber's text chain with the I-beam tool, choose Subscriber Options from the Edit menu, and click Open Publisher.
You may not edit or format text in a text chain which is a subscriber. To edit the text in a subscriber text chain you must make it no longer a subscriber.
To make a text chain no longer a subscriber, click in the subscriber's text chain with the I-beam tool, choose Subscriber Options from the Edit menu, and click Cancel Subscriber.You may now edit and format the text, but it has lost its connection to the edition.
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