what are the sitegrinder hints associated with web text?

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What are the SiteGrinder hints associated with web text?

The following hints are relevant to web text:

-text: Forces a type layer to produce styled text, rather than a graphic, on the final web page. This can also be accomplished by turning off anti-aliasing for the type layer.
-scroll: Forces a type layer to produce styled text, rather than a graphic, on the final web page and gives the text a vertical scroll bar. Requires a"paragraph text" type layer to define the size of the scrolling area.
-g: Forces a type layer to output as a graphic. This hint is only needed if you are setting the anti-alias of that layer to "None". Thus, this is a rarely needed hint.
-links: Specifies that the contents of a type layer contains phrases and hyperlinks which match phrases in the corresponding text layer and will apply the hyperlinks to them. The format of this type layer consists of a phrase lines followed by, link lines. Multiple phrase/link lines are separated from each other by empty lines.This hint is to be used on plain text layers only, not buttons and menus. Click here for more information.
-link / - @link: These hints specify that the contents of a type layer contains a single URL or email address that should be the link of a button that shares the same name. These hints are for buttons and menu items only, they do not work with plain freeform text. Click here for more information.
-metadata: This is a SiteGrinder 2 Pro hint. When used on a -gallery page in conjunction with a -picturebox or -thumb layer this text layer can be used to pick up and display metadata that is attached to the gallery image or thumbnail. See the -metadata section for details.
-form: This is a SiteGrinder 2 Pro hint. When a text field bears this hint it will be parsed differently by SiteGrinder. SiteGrinder will look for form specific markdown and translate the text layer into a form. SiteGrinder forms are very easy to define. SiteGrinder has full support for email contact forms, but also lets you wire forms up to anything you want (google searches, maps directions, etc.) See the -form section for details.
-xmedia: This is a SiteGrinder 2 Pro hint. -xmedia layers are simply placeholder layers that SiteGrinder will replace with external media when the page is build. -xmedia layers can be graphic or text, but when using text layers in conjunction with imported HTML or PHP require there are certain advantages. You can enter some sample text into the text field and optionally have SiteGrinder apply those styles to the imported HTML. This allows you to define a Photoshop file that can "skin" external some external content. See the -xmedia and external HTML sections for details.
-literal: This is a SiteGrinder 2 Pro hint. The contents of this text layer can be real raw HTML and will be inserted directly into the containing <div>. Care should be used to make sure any HTML provided is XHTML 1.1 valid, or it's very possible your pages will not layout correctly. See the -literal section for details.