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Freeway Reference: Styling Text

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Working with styles

FW Pro only

Note: Freeway Express does not support custom styles.

When working with formatting options, it is useful to note that attributes fall into two categories:

• Character attributes such as font and size—which can apply to a run of text of any length, even to a single character.

• Paragraph attributes such as alignment and interlinear spacing (and also font attributes)—which apply to entire paragraphs.

In Freeway, you can apply attributes directly to selected text, but this can be slow and tedious work if there are several attributes applied

to similar pieces of text that appear throughout a document.

To save time and effort, a set of attributes may be saved as a style, and applied in one step to any piece of text that you want to look

this way. Applying styles to text gives a consistent look to your document.

For more information about using styles in Freeway, see What are styles? on page 153.

Freeway generates styles on the fly as you work, which saves you the effort of creating your own styles from scratch. Freeway also offers

both character-level and paragraph-level styles, so that you have all the advantages of styles for words and individual characters as well

as entire paragraphs.

Basic concepts about styles

This section introduces the basic concepts you’ll need to understand for working with styles.

Methods of creating, applying, and changing styles

There are several ways of working with styles in Freeway:

• You can alter the character and paragraph attributes of an individual run of text, using either the Text panel of the Inspector

palette or the Styles menu. Each time you alter a text attribute using one of these methods, a new temporary style is created in the

Styles & Colors palette. New styles are only created for unique sets of attributes.

• If you apply the same set of attributes to two runs of text, Freeway will use the existing style.

• You can change the definition of an existing style, using the Edit Styles dialog box, and therefore alter the appearance of all text in

the document that currently uses that style.

• You can change the appearance of selected text by applying a different style from the Styles & Colors palette.

• You can define a completely new style using the Edit Styles dialog box and then apply it to text using the Styles & Colors palette.

The Styles & Colors palette

FW Pro only

The Styles & Colors palette shows you which styles currently exist within a document and which ones are applied to selected text.

You can also use the Styles & Colors palette to apply different styles to text.

The Styles & Colors palette contains some predefined styles: em, h1, h2, h3, p, and strong. These are default CSS tags and styles. You

can edit these styles if you wish. For a discussion about these default styles, see Freeway’s default styles on page 155.

Styles can be either temporary or permanent. Every time you change a character or paragraph attribute in a run of text, a temporary

style is created. This style only exists while it is in use (applied to one or more text runs). If the text is deleted or the attributes changed,

the style is removed.

For example, if you type a word and then change its font, you’ll create a temporary style called “style1”. If you then change the font

size of that word, “style1” will disappear and you’ll create a new “style2”.

However, you can make a style permanent so that it remains in the document, regardless of whether it is currently in use. Temporary style

names appear in plain text in the Styles & Colors palette, while permanent style names appear in bold.

HTML and graphic text styles

FW Pro only

The formatting attributes available differ somewhat for HTML and graphic text. When defining a style, you may select HTML or GIF

attributes. However, taking a style defined with one set of attributes for export in one format and setting it to export as the other format

will lead to different results—only the attributes relevant for the export format already chosen for the text will be applied.

[No Style] and other default styles

FW Pro only

In a new document, you’ll see [No Style], em, h1, h2, h3, p, and strong listed in the Styles & Colors

palette.

When you first type text into a new document, it has [No Style] applied to it, although the style is not

highlighted in the palette. Because it has no character or paragraph attributes set explicitly by the user, it

draws its attributes from the Default style. Generally speaking, it is best to leave this style set to the defaults

in the Document Setup dialog. (See Freeway’s default styles on page 155.)

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