Peter Gold wrote: > Richard's point is excellent!
Thank you. > I believe that one way to avoid this problem is to create a > named character format for the purpose, whose properties are > only those you want to apply. In this example, you'd define > the "NewBold" format by clicking outside any text, or > choosing Commands > Set Window To As Is in the character > designer, then setting only the Bold attribute. I haven't > tested this, but I think that pasting a named character > format that's copied to the clipboard applies only the > properties of the named format, not every property of the > text. A quick test should clarify the behavior. Unfortunately, no. You can only copy to the clipboard an _instance_ of the format, not the format as an abstraction. FM interprets "As Is" quite literally. As soon as you instantiate the char format by applying it to a text string, the attributes defined as "As Is" are set to the existing values for that string. So, your Bold + As Is char format becomes Bold + Palatino, 10 pt, Angle Regular, Variation Regular, Color Black, etc. If you have FrameScript, you can verify this by retrieving the property list of a string with a char format applied. I wish it weren't so. I'd like all the undefined char properties to contain pointers to the corresponding pgf properties (or to be null/empty, and interpreted as pointers to the pgf properties). Richard ------ Richard G. Combs Senior Technical Writer Polycom, Inc. richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom 303-223-5111 ------ rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom 303-777-0436 ------
