Find / Replace special

[Combs, Richard]

Peter Gold wrote:
 
> Richard's point is excellent!

Thank you.
 
> I believe that one way to avoid this problem is to create a 
> named character format for the purpose, whose properties are 
> only those you want to apply. In this example, you'd define 
> the "NewBold" format by clicking outside any text, or 
> choosing Commands > Set Window To As Is in the character 
> designer,  then setting only the Bold attribute.  I haven't 
> tested this, but I think that pasting a named character 
> format that's copied to the clipboard applies only the 
> properties of the named format, not every property of the 
> text. A quick test should clarify the behavior.

Unfortunately, no. You can only copy to the clipboard an _instance_ of
the format, not the format as an abstraction. 

FM interprets "As Is" quite literally. As soon as you instantiate the
char format by applying it to a text string, the attributes defined as
"As Is" are set to the existing values for that string. So, your Bold +
As Is char format becomes Bold + Palatino, 10 pt, Angle Regular,
Variation Regular, Color Black, etc. If you have FrameScript, you can
verify this by retrieving the property list of a string with a char
format applied. 

I wish it weren't so. I'd like all the undefined char properties to
contain pointers to the corresponding pgf properties (or to be
null/empty, and interpreted as pointers to the pgf properties). 

Richard 


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Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
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303-223-5111
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