[Gimp-user] text mode, need instruct sequence

[Gene Heskett <gheskett shentel net>]

Greetings all;

I, like Ruben Safir, am A. tired of the lack of good docs, and B. the 
churn in how it works. I just had occasion to caption some pix as an aid 
to my wife who is not a computer whiz, in setting up a piano keyboard, 
and the air was quite blue around me by the time I got done because 
every time I tried to set one option in the text panel it reset 
everything else back to the defaults.  And an 18 px black character 
isn't more than a visible dot on an 8x10 printout, so I click on the 
size and add a zero to make 180 px. Then I am going to put it in a black 
area of the printout, so I select the color white and hit enter and it 
resets the size to 18px and the font back to sans from sans serif. Thats 
bs at its finest.  So is the text box when its under the top ruler and 
you can't see that its decided to reset everything back to the defaults.  
So please tell me the correct sequence of key or mouse strokes to set 
that up and if possible set it as the defaults so I don't have to get so 
frustrated just to add a line or 3 of text captions to a picture.  
You've made 4 hours of very frustrating work out of captioning 6 photo's 
that ought to be 3 minutes plus print time each. If this worked. But 
IMNSHO it sucks dead toads thru soda straws. So please make it 
_Just_Work_, write some docs that tell us how to use it, and then stop 
the churn.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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