# Working with SmartScript recognition

SmartText recognition helps make it easy to take words from your script and add them to your comic pages.

As you write your script you'll see icons appear on the left side indicating the type of element that was recognized. By default these are the keywords that are recognized:

- SFX, TITLE - Lettering element
- CAP, CAPTION - Caption element
- PAGE - Page element
- PANEL - Panel element

Speech is detected via a process of elimination. If it's a word that is followed by a delimiter such as a colon ":", right parenthesis ")" or a newline then it's treated as speech text and an icon appears beside it.

These keyword mappings can be modified from the defaults by going to the Script inspector tab and adding or changing them.

Speech has a special mapping category for dealing with the various forms of speech that can appear on the page, for example: thoughts, exclamations, whispers etc.

To identify the form of speech simply put the corresponding keyword in parentheses:

- (whisper)
- (thought)
- (exclaim)

If there is no form provided then it is assumed to be standard speech.

When it comes time to add your script text to your pages you'll be able to simply drag and drop the SmartScript icons into place and the text will appear inside the correct element saving you lots of time.