Paragraph styles plus Character styles

[Van]

As I am begining to understand style mechanics on Atlantis, it looks as if we have paragraph based styles which include font styles for whole paragraphs.<br><br>What I am wondering about is if we could look forward to a separate implementation of so called "Character styles" - a kind of 'word(s)' styles (sub-paragraph styles) as well.<br><br>As things are now, we can give by hand some words here and there a style, say Italic, and paragraph style formatting will not touch that. But if I decide to change all that is Italic to Underlined, I have to go to each instance and redo this style by hand. If we had a separate (Character) style for that, which would always take precedence over paragraph styles, we could change the Character style from Italic to Underlined and in one aplication of the style have the changes implemented in multiple instances throughout the document...<br><br>There used to be in the 80ties on Macintosh a little wordprocessor that did have styles like that, its name was WriteNow. It was simillar to Atlantis in that it also had a smallish footprint, it was a highly integrated program and it had perfect implementation of styles [its Character style would override Paragraph style, and if you made some formatting change by hand, say an italicized word, it would be gone if you applied Par. style again. For example, if Par. style specified Italic, your italicized word would be made Italic with the rest of paragraph, if the Par. style was subsequently changed to plain text, all paragraph would be plain text then, but if there was an Italic 'Character style' applied to a word, it would still be there, no matter what the Par. style change was...]. It also had columns of text and Headers and Footers and Footnotes. It also had Hyphens, hard and soft, and like Atlantis, it had only WYSIWYG view of doc. The way the two kinds of styles were applied on it was by means of two roll up menus from the bottom Status bar or in standard way from menus overhead.<br><br>The company (T/Maker Company ~88-92) was bought out I think and one way or other, that was the end of the little processor that could. <br>It happens I still have it on my old Mac, I'm looking at it right now. It has nice description of styles in its help text. <br>So, if anybody is looking for some ideas about styles, just ask...<br><br>It is not by any accident that there is so far no thread on styles subject here, people as a rule are intimidated by styles, but once they try it, they are hooked. It is good for anybody who writes anything longer beyond simple notes or memos, anything beyond a single page.<br><br>Van

[Max_Quordlepleen]

As things are now, we can give by hand some words here and there a style, say Italic, and paragraph style formatting will not touch that. But if I decide to change all that is Italic to Underlined, I have to go to each instance and redo this style by hand. If we had a separate (Character) style for that, which would always take precedence over paragraph styles, we could change the Character style from Italic to Underlined and in one aplication of the style have the changes implemented in multiple instances throughout the document...

<br><br>I think this would be a very handy tool indeed. Thanks for bringing it up, Van.