Idea Text Options
Idea text options
One of the wonderful things about Liptikl is that you also have a lot of options to help you work creatively with your "source text".
To access these options, you need to access a pop-up menu that you can get at either by either right clicking (Windows) or control clicking (Mac) on one of the Text fields in the Ideas area, or a word in this area.
Tip: Why not try using text from some current news items in the ideas box - that way you can make sure you use words that are current, and some interesting themes can seemingly come out of nothing!
Tip: Liptikl has a better chance at shuffling the more words are in your source content. Obviously, if your source content is only one word, then Liptikl can only choose one word! So make sure you give Liptikl lots of different words to choose from.
Click on a word:
Thesaurus
Search via a thesaurus engine for the selected word (e.g. "ThisWord" in the screenshot above)! Selecting this option launches your web browser to display a webpage with a "Go" button. Pressing that button automatically loads a webpage that uses your selected word.
Note: if you select any of the "other thesaurus sites" listed below the Go button, which are there for your easy reference, then these do not automatically work with your selected word.
Dictionary
Search via a dictionary engine for the selected word (e.g. "ThisWord" in the screenshot above)! Selecting this option launches your web browser to display a webpage with a "Go" button. Pressing that button automatically loads a webpage that uses your selected word.
Note: if you select any of the "other dictionary sites" listed below the Go button, which are there for your easy reference, then these do not automatically work with your selected word.
Search
Search via a search engine for the selected word (e.g. "ThisWord" in the screenshot above)! Selecting this option launches your web browser to display a webpage with a "Go" button. Pressing that button automatically loads a webpage that uses your selected word.
Note: if you select any of the "other search sites" listed below the Go button, which are there for your easy reference, then these do not automatically work with your selected word.
Search for all words
Search via a search engine for all the words in the lyrics, in a similar way to search above.
Edit...
Selecting this presents the following options for copy/paste etc.
The Ideas text boxes in Liptikl are editable, which means you can move words around by cutting and pasting, or even edit or manually add in new words. It is very useful to be able to do this, as you may want to add, edit or delete words from your source material
Search highlight
You will see this if you select a number of words (by dragging the mouse over the words whilst holding the left mouse button down). Search via a search engine for all the words in the lyrics, in a similar way to search above.
Idea text file...
Presents Open (which allows you to open a text file and load the data in that file into your text field), and Save (which allows you to save your text field to a text file).
Click on the background:
Edit...
Various options for copy/paste etc. as outlined above.
Idea text file...
Presents Open (which allows you to open a text file and load the data in that file into your text field), and Save (which allows you to save your text field to a text file).
