Formatting a Script
When you write a story, text appears in the default text style. However, you can alter the look of the text, such as changing the default font to bold. When formatting a story as a script for a news broadcast, you often distinguish certain text by using various specialized styles of text, such as instructions for presenters or closed captioning.
You use presenter instructions commonly as brief, special instructions to news presenters (also known as news anchors). The text for presenter instructions appear red, in reverse video on the teleprompter. This text does not affect how the system calculates the read time.
You use closed captioning commonly for sound-bite transcription. The text for closed captioning appears green, and the system sends it to a closed caption encoder if your station uses such a device to broadcast scripts for the hearing-impaired. Closed captioning text does not appear in the teleprompter, nor does it affect how the system calculates the read time.
The system sends the default text style to both the teleprompter and to any closed caption encoder used at the station.
In the mobile application, an Edit toolbar provides buttons that let you modify the format of the text into bold text, italicized text, and underlined text, and lets you format text specialized for broadcast scripts.
To format text, select the appropriate text and do one of the following:
To bold text, tap and hold. and then select the B button.
To italicize test, tap and hold, and then select the I button.
To underline text, tap and hold, and then select the U button.
To mark text as a presenter instruction, tap and hold, and then select P for presenter.
To mark text as a closed captioning text, tap and hold, and then select CC for closed captioned.
To mark text as a normal text, tap and hold, and then select N for normal.
You can choose the format before typing your text as well. Any new text you type appears in the format you selected. To change the format of the text you type at any time, select another format.
