[Framers] Para tag "As Is" property?

[Scott Prentice]

Shift+F8 does the usual setting of all properties to AsIs .. but it 
doesn't appear that you can save it. I know that even when you do this 
with a char tag, it's hard to see that the property is set to AsIs 
because the list updates based on the selected paragraph. That's why I 
thought that maybe the para tag was just showing the underlying 
"default" property value. But since there's no way (for a regular user) 
to set the default document value .. that didn't make a lot of sense.

This came about because I was trying to set this via the FDK, and notice 
that the FDK Reference says to use a certain FDK property (ie, 
FP_UseColor) to indicate that "AsIs" is enabled for that property .. 
these special "Use*" properties are only available for character tag 
objects and conditions, but not para tag objects.

...scott


On 6/12/17 1:55 PM, Robert Lauriston wrote:
> What happens if you select the property you want to set to As Is and
> press Shift-F8?
>
> On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 1:34 PM, Scott Prentice <sp14 at leximation.com> wrote:
>> Hi...
>>
>> As far as I can tell, there's no way to assign "As Is" to a para tag
>> property definition. You can do it for char tags (and conditions), but even
>> though "As Is" is a valid option in many of the para tag properties, there's
>> no way to actually assign this value. Yes?
>>
>> I've seen this value in the para tag properties for as long as I can
>> remember, and didn't think much of it, but I'm wondering why these values
>> exist in the para tag property lists, if they can't be used or set.
>>
>> *If* there was some way to define an underlying "document" property for
>> items like font or color, then it would make sense for a para tag to have an
>> "As Is" value so it would inherit from the document defaults. In fact, there
>> are such document properties, but the only way I know of to change them is
>> to do it via the FDK or MIF (??). So, in theory, para tags could make use of
>> an As Is value .. but I don't think you can set this value.
>>
>> I'm hoping that I've just missed this feature after all these years .. can
>> someone explain why and how?
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