Emphasis on characters within paragraphs

[Syed.Hosain at aeris.net]

> Set all other attributes of the character style to As Is. This is
> easiest to do when the cursor is not in a text frame.

Hmmm ... yes, but that is already the situation that I have - all *other* attributes are already "As Is". So, I don't understand your response per se! Can you elaborate, please?

To iterate (in case I was not clear - my apologies): what I want to do is have a *single* Character tag (called "Emphasis"), that *automatically* makes the selected text Italic in paragraphs that have a default font that is Regular, and makes the selected text Regular (non-Italic) in paragraphs that have a default font that is Italic.

Z

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Huntley Eshenroder [mailto:huntleye at gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 7:03 PM
> To: Syed Zaeem Hosain (Syed.Hosain at aeris.net)
> Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: Re: Emphasis on characters within paragraphs
> 
> Set all other attributes of the character style to As Is. This is
> easiest to do when the cursor is not in a text frame.
> 
> -Huntley
> 
> On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 8:44 PM,  <Syed.Hosain at aeris.net> wrote:
> > Hi, all.
> >
> > I have a Character tag called "Emphasis" that does the obvious thing for
> > words/letters in "Body" paragraphs ... the default body font is Palatino
> > Linotype and the Emphasis tag changes it to Italic!
> >
> > I have another Paragraph called "Note" that uses Italicized text to
> > begin with (still in Palatino Linotype). For these, I have another
> > Character tag called "EmpBody" that is Regular Palatino Linotype and I
> > manually use where I need it.
> >
> > So far, so good! But ... the problem arises when I change a paragraph
> > from "Body" to "Note", I have to run around and find all the "Emphasis"
> > text and change it to "EmpBody". Sigh ...
> >
> > My question: is there any way in FM8 to define *ONE* Character format
> > called "Emphasis" such that it makes the emphasized text be Italic when
> > the underlying default font is Regular, and vice-versa? Then I could use
> > a single Character format and not worry about this issue after making
> > this kind of paragraph change!
> >
> > Z