Three blocks, one idea
Some passages aren't prose. A text-message exchange in a thriller, a tip box in a how-to book, a handwritten note slid under a door — each needs a visual treatment of its own, and each should survive the trip to print, ebook, and Word intact.
Bookshaper ships three special content blocks: Text Message Thread, Callout Box, and Written Note. Insert any of them from the right-click Insert menu, or with Cmd/Ctrl + Alt + M, C, or W respectively. Press Cmd/Ctrl + Enter to step out of a block and continue with normal prose.
Text message threads
A thread is a stack of chat bubbles — sent messages on the right, received on the left. Enter starts the next message; a floating toolbar above the thread flips a bubble's side and sets an optional sender name and timestamp.
The look is a style choice, not baked into your content: the Text Message Thread style target offers iOS, Android, and generic skins, plus a toggle for showing timestamps. Change the skin once and every conversation in the book follows.
Callout boxes
The nonfiction staple: a bordered, tinted box that sets tips, warnings, and sidebars apart from body text. Give a box an optional title from its floating toolbar; the Callout Box style target controls border color, border weight, corner radius, and background tint for every box in the book.
Written notes
For letters, notes, and signs inside your story: an inset block whose typography you control from the Written Note style target. Pair it with one of the bundled script faces — Great Vibes or Allura — for a handwritten look, or keep it typewritten with a mono face for telegrams and case files.