# Using a text editor to make your language tree

Before you edit the raw language file you must remember some rules!

1. Use a **Plain Text editor**. **Don't use Microsoft Word, Wordpad, Apple Pages or similar**. When you have a plain text editor - no fancy formatting like bolding text or underlining is possible. Which is great for pasco - as it will mess with its head!. The only formatting you can use is a tab to indent the text (or use spaces). For example:

   ```
    Chat
    	Social Chat
    		Alright Mate
    		How's things?
    	Polite Chat
    		Good morning
    		How are you?
    		Anything I can do for you today
    Care Messages
    	Body Parts
    	Medical equipment
    		Chair
    		Bed
    I'll spell it
   ```
2. **Tabs and Spaces don't mix!** Each line can start with either spaces OR tabs. Not both

So you cannot do this:

```
[space-space]I'll spell it
```

i.e. here the file has started with a space - but then given a tab. The next line has two spaces. In many text editors this is difficult to see - but effectively we have messed up pasco. Does it look at spaces or tabs?

1. **Cues can be put in brackets**

for example if you wanted the person to be able to say "Hello World" (Main Voice) but a cue to be "Hello" we could do this:

```
Hello World(hello)
```

## Editing with Notes on iOS

Unless you have a fancy iPad Pro - or are using an external keyboard you cant use tabs on the iPad - so you will **have** to use spaces instead. Where you would use one tab to indent - do the same with a space. Keep the number of spaces the same so your file looks nice and neat.

## Editing with Notepad on Windows