Operation Manual

118 Formatting Characters and Paragraphs
Paragraph styles and character styles
A paragraph style is a complete specification for the appearance of a
paragraph, including all its font and paragraph format attributes. Every
paragraph in WebPlus has a paragraph style associated with it.
• WebPlus includes one built-in paragraph style called "Normal" with a
specification consisting of generic attributes including left-aligned, 12pt
Verdana. Initially, the "Normal" style is the default for any new
paragraph text you type. You can modify the "Normal" style by
redefining any of its attributes, and create or adopt any number of new
or pre-defined styles having different names and attributes.
• 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 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." Suppose a paragraph
uses a style called "Body," and the "Body" style uses regular 10pt Arial.
Then the "Default Paragraph Font" style for that particular paragraph
means regular 10pt Arial.
• 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).