<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>Hi Schlomo, <br></span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>Thanks for responding: </span></div><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <br>> However, in the context of cross-references, <$paratext> ignores all <br>> character formatting present in the extracted paragraph text, except <br>> superscript, subscript and font family properties - which are retained only <br>> if implemented through a character tag.<br>> <br>> To preserve a property such as italic (or bold), you need to have a <br>> different font name for the required variation (even though visually it is <br>> the identical font); alternatively, use a different font. For example, I <br>> have "Univers-Condensed Oblique" in my font list; text tagged with a <br>>
character format using this font preserves its italic property when it is <br>> cross-referenced. Some font families are installed this way by default.<br><br>Schlomo, I think I'm missing something or doing it wrong. I'm attaching an updated Sample.FM. I changed the font family for Italic char tag to HelveticaNeueLT Std Cn, since that's the most similar font to Arial Narrow that I have installed on this PC. It shows fine in the variable definition, but when the variable is used in the heading, and then the heading text is xref'd via <$paratext>, it is still not picking up the angle. I don't understand why it works for you, but I'm not getting the desired result. Is it a bug in my FM file or something?<br><br>{Aside: It seems to me that either Adobe might want to consider adding another building block that does include the character formats applied to text for cross-references, so that writers have the choice of which standard to
follow; or perhaps this is a limitation that doesn't exist in FM 10?}<br><br>Thanks,<br>Rene<br></div><div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </div> </div></body></html>