On Tuesday 18 February 2003 08:27 am, Praedor Atrebates wrote: > On Monday 17 February 2003 07:26 pm, John Levon wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 07:19:43PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > > > Whoaaa -- sorry, in no way did I mean that *John* was repudiating > > > anything. I meant the lack of character styles, which is nobody's > > > fault, is inconsistent (much better word than repudiate) with WYSIWYM. > > > > I think everybody agrees strongly with this... > > Real basic question...what is meant by "character styles"?
Character styles are like environments for small segments of text, not whole paragraphs. Character styles are named entities defining the typeface, weight, slant, sub/superscript, color, letter spacing, and other attributes of letters. The idea is that if I have a character style called "celebrity" that I use for names of famous people (Linus Torvalds, Larry Wall, etc), I can put all famous people in that character style, and they'll all look the same. Later I might decide to change the look of famous people's names, so I'd change the definition of the style, rather than searching the document for every famous person and changing each one. HTH Steve -- Steve Litt Author: * Universal Troubleshooting Process courseware * Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist * Rapid Learning: Secret Weapon of the Successful Technologist Webmaster * Troubleshooters.Com * http://www.troubleshooters.com (Legal Disclaimer) Follow these suggestions at your own risk.
