Operation Manual

Working with Text 133
Styles can be applied to characters
or paragraphs using either the Text
context toolbar or the Text Styles
tab. Both paragraph and character
styles can be managed from the
Text Style Palette.
Paragraph and character styles
A paragraph style is a complete specification for the appearance of a
paragraph, including all font and paragraph format attributes. Every paragraph in
PagePlus has a paragraph style associated with it.
• PagePlus includes a built-in default paragraph style called "Normal"
which is left-aligned, 12pt Times New Roman. When you create frame
text from scratch you'll be using the Body text style based on Normal;
artistic text uses Artistic Body text style, based on the Body style.
This hierarchical approach makes for powerful text style control.
• Applying a paragraph style to text updates all the text in the paragraph
except sections that have been locally formatted. For example, a single
word marked as bold would remain bold when the paragraph style was
updated or changed.
A character style includes only font attributes (name, point size, bold, italic,
etc.), and you apply it at the character level—that is, to a range of selected
characters—rather than to the whole paragraph.
• Typically, a character style applies emphasis (such as italics, bolding
or colour) to whatever underlying font the text already uses; the
assumption is that you want to keep that underlying font the same. The