To remove local formatting from a paragraph

[Chris Despopoulos]

A few points...

I have a freeware tool called HuntOverrides that gives you a list of pgfs with 
overrides.  It generates a hypertext list of pgfs that have overrides.  You can 
navigate to them and fix them.  Find it at cudspan.net...

It occurred to me to make a tool that wipes out overrides, but for a full doc or 
book I think you can do that via Import Formats.  So I never bothered.  I guess 
it could make sense to make a tool like that, but I probably won't get around to 
it.  On a similar vein, it would be easy to make a tool that reapplies the 
catalog format for the current pgf.  You could also make it wipe out any 
properly applied char formatting, I suppose (maybe two different choices).  
Still, I'm not making so many tools these days, so I may not get around to that 
for a while...

There's one problem with applied char formatting, whether from the catalog of 
ad-hoc.  If you apply formatting to the last character in a paragraph, then it 
applies that to the pgf symbol as well.  So you might make the pgf symbol bold.  
In that case, the formatting is kind of sticky, and you usually have to click 
around a bit before you can remove that formatting from the pgf.  For that 
reason, I *always* add an extra space at the end of a pgf if I need to format 
the last word in it.  I also happen to have a tool that maps new templates to 
legacy documents.  It turns out I have to add a space at the end of every 
paragraph if I'm swapping out char formats, for this very reason.  Otherwise, 
the tool ends up not knowing when a char format has ended.  My bug, or 
FrameMaker's?  Who cares...

HTH (but probably doesn't)              cud