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To Publish Formatted Text

You can publish formatted text from your Sahafi document. The published text resides in an edition file. Other applications supporting Publish/Subscribe (including Sahafi) can subscribe to this edition. Any time you edit or format the text you have published, all documents which subscribe to it are automatically updated.

  1. Create a text chain, and enter and format the text you want to publish. Or import formatted text from a word processing application.

  2. Select an insertion point anywhere in the text chain.

  3. Choose Create Publisher from the Edit menu. In the dialog box select a folder for the new edition and type a name.

  4. Click Publish. An edition file is created for the formatted contents of the text chain you are working on. All the text blocks in the chain are displayed with a thick gray border to indicate that the current chain is a publisher. This border is only visible when the text chain has been activated for editing with the I-beam tool. As a default, a publisher text chain updates its edition whenever you save your Sahafi document.

To update a text chain's edition manually, click in the publisher's text chain with the I-beam tool, choose Publisher Options from the Edit menu, and click Send Edition Now.
To make a publisher text chain no longer a publisher, click in the publisher's text chain with the I-beam tool, choose Publisher Options from the Edit menu, and click Cancel Publisher.