Operation Manual

Chapter 10: The Title Editor 185
Object layout buttons
The two left buttons in this cluster are
for grouping and ungrouping Title Editor objects. The
first button is available when multiple objects are
selected. Its action is to link the objects into a group – a
composite object that is treated as a single entity by
editing operations. When a group is selected, all its
control points are visible simultaneously, and any of
them may be used to manipulate the group.
A grouping of three objects
The second button, which is available whenever a
group object is selected, separates the group into its
constituent objects.
Although it is possible to “group groups”, grouping is
always just one level deep, so ungrouping a supergroup
will result in all the constituent objects being
individuals again.
The next button opens a pop-out menu of 11 operations
that apply only to groups. The first six let you align a
set of objects along any one of their four edges or either
of their two mid-lines. The next pair of commands
provides for spacing the objects at equal intervals in