Re: Latest Sneak Preview of NW X

[Nigel Perry]

At 6:32 am -0600 16/1/03 Christian M. M. Brady wrote:

On 1/15/03 8:28 PM, "Nigel Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 > For structured documents you use styles, and if the paragraph style

 is wrong you go and edit it and *all* uses of it update.

Awfully narrow minded about font use Nigel. Some of us have *need* of more
than one font in a given paragraph so paragraph styles alone won't do it.

You are right, by "paragraph" I meant to include all user-defined styles. I have
pre-defined character styles which change font.

Many years ago I used to use a Mac wordprocessor called MacAuthor (LaserAuthor in the US I think). it simply did not have a font menu, or a font size menu - the only font styling you could do ad-hoc was the basic bold/italic/underline variations. For everything else you had to define a style: character, paragraph or title (a variant of para). Whatever ever else could be said about this word processor, the documents that came out of it were consistently formatted!

Example: in writing about biblical and rabbinic material, not only do I
frequently intermix Hebrew and English text (not a real problem with fonts)
but I also have to use transliteration fonts and other special fonts that
use the western encoding (i.e., I can't just change the keyboard).

Now I currently use a key command to get the font I want (cmd-J for
Jaghbub), but sometimes fonts like the transliteration font Jaghbub look a
lot like Times and I cannot be sure that I am using the correct font without
going to the menu. Also, spaces occasionally get misassigned fonts. I don't
want to apply a font change to the whole paragraph (let along every
paragraph in the document that shares its style!).

Exactly what character styles are for - set one up for Jaghbub, and if later you decide you need to use a different font, or want all Jaghbub in green bold (who knows why? ;-)) you just change the character style definition.

Cheers,
Nigel

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