Best practice for setting up character formats is to set everything
As Is except the feature that you want the character tag to control.
That would include setting the Font Family to As Is. So for Emphasis,
for example, the font family would be set to As Is and only the Angle
set to Italic. This enables the character tag to be applied to any
text, regardless of its paragraph usage. I can apply Emphasis to text
defined as Times Roman, Arial, etc., and the font is retained and
only the Angle changed.
For Adobe to ignore this in cross-references and require a unique
Character tag for each different usage of a font family (e.g., Times
Roman Emphasis, Arial Emphasis) is insane. Someone at Adobe, please
look into this.
Carol
At 10:42 AM 2/4/2014, Shlomo Perets wrote:
Carol,
You wrote:
Can anyone tell me if FM12 has fixed the problem in which character
formats in source text are lost in cross-references to that source
text? That one little fix would be a tipping point for me to upgrade
to FM12. If not, has anyone found a better workaround than the one
in the Frame archives that requires defining in maker.ini an
entirely new version of the font for every font face that uses italics?
Behavior in FM12 is as in previous versions; this is probably "by
design" and not something listed to be fixed/changed.
As to a workaround: not necessarily feasible for your work, but if
your character format uses a different font family, the italic/bold
etc will be carried over.
Shlomo Perets
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