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Celtx: Open Source Screenwriting Beginner's Guide

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Celtx: Open Source Screenwriting Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Celtx: Open Source Screenwriting Beginner's guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
List of Recommended Books on Screenwriting and Productions and Online Resources
Celtx's New Web Look and Smartphone Apps
Future Development of Celtx

Customizing the Celtx screen


There are several ways of customizing the Celtx screen to make writing and other work using the software easier and more pleasing to you. One such way, which we just saw a few minutes ago while looking at how the editor toolbar works, is resizing the text in our script. If we can actually see what we write (for those like me who wear glasses) it will probably come out better, eh?

Using Toolbar on the View menu to remove the row of shortcut buttons at the top of the screen is another way of customizing, in this case to gain more space for the script window.

Yet another is by resizing the various windows that make up the Celtx screen. In the following screenshot, I've widened the Scenes window, so that I can read all the scene title text:

To rearrange the main Celtx screen, move the mouse cursor over the edges of windows until it changes into a horizontal double-headed arrow cursor. In the case of the Scenes window just explained, this would be handy to do while navigating...