[Framers] Who's in charge?

[Roger Shuttleworth]

Agreed. I never - ever - use the formatting bar. If you do use it you 
create what is known as an "override", i.e. you have altered one or more 
of the characteristics of the text vis-a-vis its paragraph format. That 
is a Bad Thing.

Some basic rules:

1. Create a paragraph format or a character format for *every* type of 
text appearance that will exist in your document. If some of your text 
within a paragraph will be blue, create a Blue character format. If 
whole paragraphs will be blue, create a Blue para format (you define the 
colour on the Font tab of the Para Designer).

2. Apply the para/character formats assiduously within your text.

3. Never use the formatting bar (I mentioned that already).

Hope this helps. Feel free to ask loads more questions, off-list if you 
prefer.

Roger


On 29/11/2016 18:31, Robert Lauriston wrote:
> First rule of FrameMaker: use only paragraph and character tags to
> format your text.
>
> Second rule of FrameMaker: use only paragraph and character tags to
> format your text.
>
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 8:46 AM, Dennis Brunnenmeyer
> <dennis.brunnenmeyer at gmail.com> wrote:
>> If I want to change the color of the text in a paragraph designer, do I need
>> to create a new character format or a new paragraph format?
> Depends on whether you want to apply the color to part of a paragraph
> or the whole paragraph.
>
> Generally speaking, you don't want to be creating tags on the fly. You
> want to design a template with the minimum number of tags.
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