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cookbook: Add a short introduction for the Text chapter

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Emmanuele Bassi 2010-09-03 15:44:03 +01:00
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<title>Text</title>
<epigraph>
<attribution>Antoine de Saint-Exupery</attribution>
<para>A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man
contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.</para>
<attribution>Alan Perlis</attribution>
<para>A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the
picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with
pictures.</para>
</epigraph>
<section id="text-introduction">
<title>Introduction</title>
<para>User interfaces can rely on textures to represent actions, but there
are cases where you need to convey an idea using words.</para>
<para>Clutter provides an actor that allows displaying and editing
arbitrary text, called <type>ClutterText</type>. A <type>ClutterText</type>
actor can be positioned like any other actor; its preferred size is
determined by its contents, as well as the font family and size used to
render those contents.</para>
</section>
<section id="text-shadow">