Creating And Applying Character Formats - Adobe FRAMEMAKER 10 User 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
the names of the default paragraph formats, you can tag paragraphs with the
•
If you know that a document will use a particular template when it is imported into a FrameMaker 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 FrameMaker to ease the task of
creating a catalog. Create a template in FrameMaker, save the template as a MIF file, and include the Paragraph
Catalog in your document. For instructions, see

Creating and applying character formats

You can define character formats locally or store them in the Character Catalog and apply the formats to text selec-
tions. 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 summarizes how to create
and apply character formats.
In a MIF file, the Character Catalog is contained in a
named character formats in a list of
<FontCatalog
<Font...>
<Font...>
>
A statement specifies the properties of a character format; these are the same properties specified in the
Font
Character Designer. The
Font
a paragraph format. See "PgfFont and Font statements" on page 66
To apply a predefined character format to text, use the
<MIFFile 8.00>
<FontCatalog
<Font
<FTag `Emphasis'>
<FAngle `Italic'>
>
>
<Para
<PgfTag `Body'>
<ParaLine
<String `You can format characters within a paragraph by '>
<Font
<FTag `Emphasis'>
>
<String `applying'>
<Font
<FTag `'>
>
<String ` a character format from the character catalog.'>
>
>
Remember to include a second
"Including template files" on page
FontCatalog
statements. A
Font FontCatalog
# Describes a character format
# Describes a character format
# end of FontCatalog
statement is just like the
PgfFont
FTag
# Hand generated
# end of Font
# end of FontCatalog
# end of Font
# end of Font
# end of ParaLine
# end of Para
statement to end the scope of the applied character format.
Font
PgfCatalog
statement.
PgfTag
44.
statement. The
FontCatalog
statement looks like this:
statement that you use to define the default font in
for a complete description of a
statement:
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statement). If you know
statement contains
statement.
Font
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