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Optional: If desired, format the text entered in the Content field: you can use the buttons (bold, left-align,
center…) below it. Clicking the Aa button opens the Font window, where you can choose the desired font
style, size, color, etc.
TIP: In cases where you want the content to match the formatting of what preceded it in your document,
check the Plain Text checkbox (see the bottom right of the MyCommands Editor).
Step 6: Once the command is named, edited, described, grouped, and formatted as you want it, click Save.
Now let’s test your command. Say start DragonPad, then say your command’s name. (Commands you create
yourself follow the usual rule: you must pause before and after, but not in the middle!)
You may realize now that you could make your command even more convenient: for instance, by adding a blank
line before the content so your pasted content automatically starts as a new paragraph. A section below explains
how to edit a custom command.
“Cloning” commands and adding variables
Instead of making a command from scratch, you can create a new command based on the “clone” of an existing
one, by clicking New Copy on the Command Browser (or the Create New button on the Command Editor.)
In addition, the MyCommands Editor’s Name Editor allows the inclusion of <variables> in your command
names. Variable names provide flexibility (so you can use synonyms instead of just one wording) and can make
your custom commands even more useful, by letting them perform variations on the same action.
The variables can be synonyms, or they
can be different values, such as numbers
from 1 to 10.
<1to10> is one of the pre-filled lists
available through the Name Editor, but
you can also make your own (as was
done for <hq_nuance> in this lesson’s
illustrations).
See the Help for details.
“DragonTemplates”: boilerplate commands with fields
(Higher editions only) Dragon 10 added to the Text-and-Graphics command type a new capability which gives a
very simple way to paste a “voice template” containing fillable fields.