Operation Manual

134 Working with Text
base character style is shown in the Text Styles tab (or palette) as
"Default Paragraph Font," which has no specified attributes but
basically means "whatever font the paragraph style already uses."
• Applying the Default Paragraph Font option from the Text Styles tab
(or the Text context toolbar's Styles box) will strip any selected local
character formatting you've added and will restores original text
attributes (paragraph styles are not affected).
• As with paragraph styles, you can define any number of new character
styles using different names and attributes (or adopt a pre-defined
character style).
Text style hierarchies
All paragraph or character text styles available in PagePlus are ultimately based
on the respective Normal and Default Paragraph Font text styles.
Paragraph styles
Character styles
So why have this hierarchy of text styles? The key reason for this is the ability to
change a text style at any "level" in the hierarchy in order to affect all "child"
styles which belong to it.
Working with named styles
The named style of the currently selected text is displayed
in either the Text Styles tab or the Styles drop-down list on the Text context
toolbar. A character style (if one is applied locally) may be shown; otherwise it
indicates the paragraph style.