FM12 has char format in xref been fixed?

[Carol J. Elkins]

Best practice for setting up character formats is to set everything 
As Is except the feature that you want the character tag to control. 
That would include setting the Font Family to As Is. So for Emphasis, 
for example, the font family would be set to As Is and only the Angle 
set to Italic. This enables the character tag to be applied to any 
text, regardless of its paragraph usage. I can apply Emphasis to text 
defined as Times Roman, Arial, etc., and the font is retained and 
only the Angle changed.

For Adobe to ignore this in cross-references and require a unique 
Character tag for each different usage of a font family (e.g., Times 
Roman Emphasis, Arial Emphasis) is insane. Someone at Adobe, please 
look into this.

Carol


At 10:42 AM 2/4/2014, Shlomo Perets wrote:
>Carol,
>
>You wrote:
>
>Can anyone tell me if FM12 has fixed the problem in which character 
>formats in source text are lost in cross-references to that source 
>text? That one little fix would be a tipping point for me to upgrade 
>to FM12. If not, has anyone found a better workaround than the one 
>in the Frame archives that requires defining in maker.ini an 
>entirely new version of the font for every font face that uses italics?
>
>Behavior in FM12 is as in previous versions; this is probably "by 
>design" and not something listed to be fixed/changed.
>
>As to a workaround: not necessarily feasible for your work, but if 
>your character format uses a different font family, the italic/bold 
>etc  will be carried over.
>
>
>Shlomo Perets
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