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ProductName5 <Default Font>FrameMakerne FrameMaker Body<$ Body& HIDDEN Running H/F 3 CHARACTER FORMATS Introduction Character Catalog Character Designer New Format Global Update Options Delete Formats from Catalog Copy Character Format Font Size Style hortcuts Main Menu Running H/F 3 (continued) CHARACTER FORMATS Introduction Character Catalog Character Designer New Format Global Update Options Delete Formats from Catalog Copy Character ] Format Font Size Style hortcuts Main Menu A character format determines the properties of selected text within a Pparagraph or text line without affecting the rest of the paragraph or line. For `@ Iexample, you can use a character format to italicize words that you want Gemphasized. You define character formats using the Character Designer. KYou can store character formats in a catalog and apply them to other text. EYou can also use commands on the Format menu to format specific text 8 Jwithin a paragraph or the entire paragraph, depending on what you select. Help on character formats MFor information on character formats, click an item in the topic list to the %right or click an active area below. HThe Charac ter Catalog is where you store character formats. WThe Chara cter Designer contains settings for character properties, as well se @as controls for applying and editing Character Catalog formats. mands on the Format menu can also be used to format text. The Character Catalog is where you store character formats. You display e Mthe Character Catalog by clicking the button on the document window Fborder or by choosing Characters > Catalog from the Format menu. JThe Character Catalog lists all stored character formats in the document. NYou can apply a catalog format to selected text by clicking the format in the Jscroll list. You can also apply a format by choosing it from the Format > Characters submenu. Delete =Opens the Delete F ormats from Catalog dialog box 0where you can delete formats from the Character Catalog. Format menu > Characters > Designer Window where you can create and change character formats, store them in at Ethe Character Catalog, and apply them to selected text. You can also a Mchange the properties of text using mmands on the Format menu. The Character Designer window displays font properties you can set for ch Oselected text. If you re creating a new character format that will change only Jsome properties when applied to text, you should change all properties to before setting up the format. Changes you make in the designer Lwindow do not take effect in the text until you apply the changes or update the catalog format. Character Tag 7Shows the tag (name) of the selected text. If the text 5does not already have a character format or includes 2more than one format, the text box will be empty. 4Properties displayed in the designer window are the de 2properties of the selected text. You can choose a 2different tag from the pop-up menu to display the 6properties of a particular catalog format, or you can 4type a new name in the text box to rename or create do a format. 3If you hold down the Shift key while choosing from wil 1the pop-up menu, FrameMaker displays the 0properties of the chosen catalog format without #changing the tag in the text box. Apply To Selection 1Applies the properties in the Character Designer A(including the tag in the haracter Tag text box) to 4the selected text. The corresponding catalog format is not updated. 7If you haven t changed any of the properties, clicking ar .Apply To Selection applies the catalog format /displayed in the Character Tag text box to the to selected text. 4If you have changed any of the properties, clicking n 4Apply To Selection creates a format override in the ct 4selected text. This means that the text s format no pd 6longer matches the catalog format with the same tag. Update All Formats lec Tagged 3Updates the catalog format that has the tag shown, 6as well as all text in the document that has the same Gtag. If the tag in the haracter Tag text box is different 1from the tag shown here, the format is renamed. Commands (Displays character formatting commands. ;New Format Opens the Format dialog box 6where you can store the selected text s format in the Character Catalog. :Global Update Options Opens the Global Update 3Options dialog box where you can specify which th &character formats you want to update. 8Delete Format Opens the Delete Formats from 4Catalog dialog box where you can delete formats ox from the Character Catalog. Set Window to As Is Changes all properties in the =Character Designer to . Use this command if 3you want the catalog format to change only certain 4 0properties when applied to text. After changing 3properties to As Is, set only those properties you want the format to change. Reset Window from Selection Changes all the 4properties in the Character Designer to match those .of the selected text. Use this command before Oclicking pply To Selection pdate All if you don 1want to keep the changes you ve made and want to r #return to the original properties. Morege Family 5Specifies the font family. The pop-up menu lists the h (font families available on your system. 5Specifies the font size. You can type a custom point l 1size between 2 and 400 points in the text box or d 3choose a standard point size from the pop-up menu. Angle 6Specifies the font angle (such as Italic). The pop-up 5menu lists the angles available for the font family. Weight 5Specifies the font weight (such as Bold). The pop-up 6menu lists the weights available for the font family. Variation >Specifies the font variation (such as Condensed 7The pop-up menu lists the variations available for the font family. Color 7Specifies the color of the text. The pop-up menu lists 3the colors that have been defined in the document. <For information on how to define a color, see olor Definitions Spread 6Specifies the extra space added to or subtracted from 1the text s default space between characters. The a 6value is a percentage of the default font s em space. 4Negative values decrease the space; positive values `@ 4increase the space. The normal spread is 0 percent. Underline Double Underline Numeric Underline 3Places a single or double line below the text. The 6pop-up menu lists the styles of underlines available. 3The offset and thickness of both single and double 3underlines is determined by the weight and size of 3the default font; however, numeric underlines have 4the same offset and thickness wherever they appear. Overline 'Places a line above the selected text. Moreau Strikethrough )Places a line through the selected text. Change Bar ;Displays a vertical bar in the margin beside the text. ght 4To change the width or position of change bars, use nd %the ange Bars command. Outline -Displays the selected text with an outline. Shadow *Displays the selected text with a shadow. Superscript Subscript Places the selected text above the baseline 9(superscript) or below the baseline (subscript). 5To change the size and position of the superscripted ;or subscripted text, use the command. Small Caps 7 Lowercase Uppercase 0Specifies the capitalization style of the text. ,This is small caps this is lowercase. THIS IS UPPERCASE. ;To change the size of small caps, use the ment he command. Pair Kern 3Decreases the space between pairs of characters in .the selected text and turns on ligatures. The /character pairs that are kerned, the amount of 6kerning, and the ligatures depend on the font and are $defined by the font s manufacturer. Dialog box where you create a new character format and store it in the ali HCharacter Catalog. You open this dialog box by choosing New Format from he Sthe Commands pop-up menu in the haracter Designer . Once the format is he Gstored in the Character Catalog, you can apply it to other text in the Ldocument. FrameMaker will update the text s properties to match the ct format. 9Assigns a unique name to the format you re storing. Store in Catalog 0Stores the new format in the Character Catalog. 6If you don t store the format in the catalog, you can Dapply it to other text only by opying and pasting . Not 9storing the format in the catalog is useful if you don 1want the format overwritten or copied to another .document by using Import Formats Apply to Selection 2Applies the format, including the new tag, to the selected text. Dialog box where you can globally retag all text that currently has a different Jcharacter format or update particular Character Catalog formats. You open Dthis dialog box by choosing Global Update Options from the Commands 3pop-up menu in the Charac ter Designer GIf you re retagging text, choose the format you want to apply from the 4 HCharacter Tag pop-up menu (in the designer window) before choosing this N Ccommand. If you re updating catalog formats, delete the tag in the 4ro HCharacter Tag text box before choosing the command. Doing this prevents FrameMaker from applying a new tag to text. Update Character Formats ,Specifies which character formats should be updated. All Characters and Catalog Entries Retags or a 8updates all text in the document (including text lines) ac 1and all character formats stored in the catalog. FrameMaker also updates the default font properties of all paragraph formats. Moreer All Matching Tags in Selection Retags or updates 6all text in the document that has tags matching those 8in the selected text. This setting also updates catalog te !formats that have the same tags. All Tagged Retags or updates text that has the tag 7you specify in the text box. The pop-up menu lists all 'formats in the Character Catalog Dialog box where you delete a format from the Character Catalog. You open Cthis dialog box by choosing Delete Format from the Commands pop-up Zmenu in the Characte r Designer or by clicking Delete in the Charac Catalog Formats ,Lists the formats in the Character Catalog. Delete /Deletes the selected format from the Character ged 2Catalog. You can delete additional formats if you 7want to. The formats are not actually deleted from the Var catalog until you click Done. In a structured document, an element definition can have a format rule that si Nrefers to a catalog format by name. When you insert such an element using the Element Catalog FrameMaker automatically applies the specified catalog format to that element. PIf you apply a character format to an element that has an automatic format, you or Oare overriding the element s original format. To reapply format rules, use the Import > Element Definitions command on the File menu. If you change the character format of an element that has an automatic format, Syou are overriding the element s original format. To reapply format rules, use the ! Import > Element Definitions command on the File menu. If you rename a character format referred to in an element definition and then n e Lreapply format rules, any element using the format will use the paragraph default font. If you re creating a character format for an element, use the same tag that is fie 8used in the format rule in the element definition. If you delete a character format referred to in an element definition and then Oar Mreapply format rules, any elements using the format will use the paragraph default font. 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