Press s to enter scratch writing; the cursor is modified and you must click somewhere on the page to start writing text there. Before clicking, you can
Active-DVI recognizes the following keystrokes when scratch writing on the page.
| ^G | quit | – | End of scratch writing. |
| Esc | settings | – | Enter the scratch writing settings mode. |
In the scratch writing settings mode, the cursor is modified and you can set some charateristics of the scratch writing facility. When in doubt, press
When in the scratch writing settings mode, the following keys have the following respective meanings:
| > | greater | – | Increments the scratch font size. |
| < | smaller | – | Decrements the scratch font size. |
| b | blue | – | Set the color of the font to blue. |
| c | cyan | – | Set the color of the font to cyan. |
| g | green | – | Set the color of the font to green. |
| k | black | – | Set the color of the font to black. |
| m | magenta | – | Set the color of the font to magenta. |
| r | red | – | Set the color of the font to red. |
| w | white | – | Set the color of the font to white. |
| y | yellow | – | Set the color of the font to yellow. |
| B | more blue | – | Increment the blue component of the color. |
| G | more green | – | Increment the green component of the current color. |
| R | more red | – | Increment the red component of the current color. |
| + | positive increment | – | Set the color increment to positive. |
| − | negative increment | – | Set the color increment to negative. |
| ? | help | – | Give the list of settings available. |
| Esc | quit | – | Quit the sratch writing settings mode. |
Just press Esc to enter the scratch writing settings mode, then > or < to increment or decrement the font size; then press Esc again, to leave the scratch writing settings mode and continue to write on the page with the new font size.