Sketch: Explode Text turns a text's outlines into ordinary curves (#1842) (#1921)

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@@ -66,6 +66,11 @@ keeps the original text. Position and height use the document's units. The four
expressions: one that names a parameter (`plate_width / 2`) stays an expression, is shown as typed
when the dialog is opened again, and keeps the text following the parameter.
To work on the letters' shapes themselves, right-click the text and choose **Explode Text**
(`sketch.break_link` with the text's `link`). Its outlines stay where they are as ordinary
lines, arcs and curves that can be picked, trimmed, dimensioned and extruded one by one; the
text itself is gone, so it can no longer be edited as text or follow parameters. Undo brings it back.
A text can follow a curve of its sketch (its **Path**). That curve becomes construction: the
letters stand on it and their descenders cross it, so as a normal curve it would cut them into
pieces, and picking the text would pick those pieces. Taking the text off the curve leaves it