Character Styles
The items in this palette let you apply character tags to text (see
also Changing Font Styles.)
The character style menu button contains these tags:
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No: The font in which all traditional
paragraphs (body paragraphs) are displayed. A common choice of many
viewers is Times or Helvetica.
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Kbd: A font that indicates that the
tagged characters are those that a user enters at a keyboard.
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Str: This may be another font family
and weight from the default font, depending on the viewer. The
resulting font stands out from the default font and is typically bold.
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Emph: A font that makes the tagged
characters stand out from the default font.
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Var: A font that indicates that the
tagged characters are not the literal characters that a user should
enter; rather the characters describe the type of thing a user should
enter (for example, a common variable is filename).
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Smp: A font that indicates that the
tagged characters are a sample (or example) of a previously described
item.
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Cite: A font that indicates that the
tagged characters are a citation to another source.
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Dfn: A font (often italics) that
indicates that the tagged characters are a definition of a word or
phrase.
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Code: A font (typically fixed-width) that
indicates that the tagged characters represent programming code.