How to set duration of text animations?

Scenario: As part of my learning PrE 9 I tried to create what is essentially a slide with some bullet points. This consists of three lines of title text that I wanted to scroll onto the screen one after the other and then sit for about five seconds before the title shot ended.
However, it appears that you cannot treat the lines of text as individual objects (assuming each line is an individual text box) as you would with KeyNote or Powerpoint.
It appears there are three approaches to using the text manipulation for titles:
Animating with the roll/crawl menu
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Animating the whole title clip (is that the correct term?) by using keyframes together with motion and opacity
It seems that none of these allow you to sequence three lines of text so that they appear one after the other with specified durations unless you create three distinct title clips that appear one after the other. So that in for the first you would scroll on the first line, in the second title clip you would make the first line static and roll on the second line and then in the third clip you would roll on the third line while lines one and two were static. Then to get a static display you would create a fourth title clip in which all the lines were static.
Is my understanding correct?
I've searched through the documentation and don't see any way to set sequence and durations of individual lines of text.
Thanks.

You are correct - one cannot do multiple lines of Text in a Title, and then apply animation Presets.
In PrE, I would create the Title in Photoshop, or PhotoshopElements, where each line is a Layer, and the Background is Transparent. Then, Save each Layer as a separate PSD, to be Imported into PrE. Then, just animate each PSD individually, with Keyframes for the fixed Effects>Motion>Position and possibly Motion>Scale. With the Keyframes, you can pause, speed up, and totally control the animation.
The reason for doing this in PS/PSE, is that it's so very easy to align the Text Layers to each other.
One can do this in Titler, but I would suggest using alignment grids, or similar, to keep things aligned. This ARTICLE will give you some tips, and even some alignment grids.
The Title Animation Presets are very limited, and I seldom even think of using them.
Good luck,
Hunt

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