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Freeway Reference: Styling Text

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Space After

This allows you to define the space that follows a paragraph. The size can be fixed (in pixels) or relative (as a percentage).

Word Space

This allows you to control the spacing of words in your text. The first field is the minimum a word will shrink to during the justification

process – and the last field is the longest a word will expand to during the process. This is a graphic attribute only.

Letter Space

This controls the spacing of individual letters in the text. Again, a graphic only attribute.

Thinking ahead with styles

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When starting a new site, it is best to think about the styles fairly early on. Even if you change a style’s appearance later on, you can still

use it during the early design stages.

Foundation Styles

These styles hold the bulk of the content. If this document were a web site, the text you are reading right now would be a foundation

style. This style would be a paragraph style. Freeway allows you to specify not just the size, font, and color of the text, but also leading,

indents, and more. Define these styles, and bear in mind that these will change as you develop the site.

Setting your main body text in such a style will allow for more streamlined HTML, which may help improve display speeds as well as

non-visual browsers.

Text modification styles

These are styles that affect text at the character level, styles such as bold, italic, and so on.

Headers

These are defined as H# tags. This will allow your document’s mark-up to be better structured. Using these, and getting a good hierarchy

worked out will only make your site (and its HTML) better.

Apply sensibly

First, apply the main “foundation style” to all your text. Then apply the other styles to places where they are needed. This structural

construction will help keep your HTML clean, but it will also help with the ordering of the site and will make style changes easier in the

future.

Making global changes

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The power of styles is that you can change a lot of effects very simply. Let’s say that your client suddenly wants all the main body text

on the site set in Helvetica instead of Verdana. Instead of visiting every text block and changing the style manually, you need only open

the Edit Styles dialog and change the typeface in one style. Click the OK button and…

…all the text changes in one go. All that is needed is a quick check on each page to ensure that the text is flowing logically, and you are

all set to publish and upload. So how does one achieve this?

Define BodyText

Start by defining your BodyText style. This would be a paragraph, and would define everything—text size, leading, font, color. This

style would be applied to every block of HTML text that you enter. You could even set it as a default style on any HTML boxes on your

master Pages.

Define ancillary styles

Next, you would define your italic, bold, and other similar styles. This time, you would only need to use the Italic and Bold Style

attributes, and nothing else. To earn extra points, set the style to define emphasis and strong tags.

Apply your Styles

Now apply the styles as normal. If you need to make a change, such as the typeface you need only alter the BodyText style.

This working method can be applied for most attributes—color, size, leading, and so on. It can be used equally effectively with graphic

styles as well as HTML styles. Making global changes such as this is one of the major strengths of Freeway.

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