>> There is no analogous action <snip> >> There is no container <snip>
Who cares? All I know is that is that sometimes I need a quick way to remove all the local formatting (incl. paragraph formatting) from a paragraph, so it appears according to its current style. For example: (1) I am designing a new style (=tag), and I experiment with different appearances of some sample content and I do this by playing with local formatting. When I give up on a direction, I want to reset the paragraph and start again. (And when I have got what I want, I define the new style.) (2) I have inherited a large document that is badly formatted with local formatting, as my case now, and if a rush job is required, I just carry on in the same way, and as (1) above. (3) Diagnostic operations. avraham On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Combs, Richard <richard.combs at polycom.com>wrote: > Avraham Makeler wrote: > > > Note also, that there is a lack of symmetry in FM between the paragraph > > styling and the character styling. The Paragraph catalog does not have a > > 'Default Paragraph' entry. > > "Default Para Font" removes local character formatting (char tag or ad > hoc), restoring the text to the underlying paragraph format. Think of it as > "No Local Formatting." Of necessity, removing any locally-applied formatting > leaves the formatting applied at the container (paragraph) level in control. > > There is no analogous action for paragraph formatting because there is no > analogous state. There is no container for paragraphs that would permit you > to specify formatting at a higher level. The paragraph is the highest-level > object that possesses text-format attributes (along with paragraph-format > attributes, of course). > > A paragraph can't have no format (tag) applied to it, and there is no > document-wide "default paragraph format." What would be the point? If you > want to format all paragraphs a certain way, select them all (Ctrl+a) and > apply a paragraph tag to them. > > > Richard G. Combs > Senior Technical Writer > Polycom, Inc. > richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom > 303-223-5111 > ------ > rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom > 303-903-6372 > ------ > > > > > > > -- Regards, avraham ~~~~~~~~~ 054-3084886 "Mercy on all, coz everyone's fighting some sort of battle"
