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Variation Selector

The Variation Selector lists the Variations of a Spoken Line, and picks the one the other widgets work on: the Speech Editors, Speech Viewers, Variation Properties, Voice Previews and Counters that have the same reference. See Variations for what Variations are.

The List The list is built from the languages and tags of the profile, not from the Line. It lists every Variation the Line could have:

Default TTS S=F TTS French TTS S=F TTS

• Each language is followed by its other Variations: its tag combinations and its random Variations.
• Each Variation is followed by its TTS twin, one level deeper.
• The Variations the Line has text for are displayed normally. The others are dimmed.
• The button in front of a language folds and unfolds its Variations.

Click a Variation to pick it. A new Variation is written by picking a dimmed one and typing its text in the Speech Editor. Languages hidden in Settings > Dialogue > Languages & Tags and combinations switched off in Settings > Dialogue > Variations aren't listed. Messages Messages about the Line's Variations as a whole are displayed beside the widget's title: for example, when no Variation has any text. Keyboard The Previous Variation and Next Variation shortcuts pick the Variation before or after the current one. They have no keys by default: assign keys in Settings > Shortcuts > Editor. Options Click the settings button above the list, or right-click the widget and choose Options.

Option	Description
Reference	Widgets sharing this reference display the Variation picked here.
Show the title and settings button	Off leaves more room for the list. The settings are then only in the right-click menu.
Hide variations with these tags	Tags to leave out of this list, separated by commas. A tag without = hides every value of it: S hides S=F and S=M.
Hide variations with a random tag	Leaves the random Variations out of this list.
Hide TTS variations	Leaves the TTS twins out of this list.
Minimum Size, Maximum Size	The minimum and maximum size of the widget's area.

These options only hide rows in this widget. To switch a combination off everywhere, use Settings > Dialogue > Variations. Several Selectors A tab can contain several Variation Selectors, each with its own reference and its own widgets:

• Two selectors and two Speech Editors display two Variations side by side.
• A Counters widget has two references, to compare the Variation of one selector with the Variation of another.
• A Variation Editor requires one selector for the language translated from, and another for the language translated to.

On a tab for writing the main text, hide the random and TTS Variations to shorten the list, and leave them to their own tabs.