Creating And Applying Character Formats - Adobe FRAMEMAKER 6.0 Manual

Tips
The following hints may help you minimize the MIF statements for paragraph formats:
If possible, use the formats in the default Paragraph Catalog (don't supply a PgfCatalog statement). If
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you know the names of the default paragraph formats, you can tag paragraphs with the PgfTag statement.
If you know that a document will use a particular template when it is imported into a FrameMaker
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document, you can just tag the paragraphs in the text flow. Don't create a new Paragraph Catalog in MIF;
it's easier to create catalogs in FrameMaker document templates.
If you need to provide a full Paragraph Catalog in a MIF file, you can still use a FrameMaker product to
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ease the task of creating a catalog. Create a template in a FrameMaker product, save the template as a MIF
file, and include the Paragraph Catalog in your document. For instructions, see "Including template files"
on page 55.

Creating and applying character formats

You can define character formats locally or store them in the Character Catalog and apply the formats to
text selections. Creating and applying character formats is very similar to creating and applying paragraph
formats as described in the previous section. Because the two methods are similar, this section just summa-
rizes how to create and apply character formats.
In a MIF file, the Character Catalog is contained in a FontCatalog statement. The FontCatalog statement
contains named character formats in a list of Font statements. A FontCatalog statement looks like this:
<FontCatalog
<Font...> # Describes a character format
<Font...> # Describes a character format
> # end of FontCatalog
A Font statement specifies the properties of a character format; these are the same properties specified in
the Character Designer. The Font statement is just like the PgfFont statement that you use to define the
default font in a paragraph format. See "PgfFont and Font statements" on page 78 for a complete
description of a Font statement.
To apply a predefined character format to text, use the FTag statement:
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Using MIF Statements