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<DIV>Hi Rene</DIV>
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<DIV>Schlomo's the expert on this, but I think your alternative font has to be an oblique/italics font, not just any different font. In his example of "Univers-Condensed Oblique", FM preserves the oblique format in xrefs because the font only has oblique glyphs. Your HelveticaNeueLT Std Cn has ordinary glyphs so FM uses them. </DIV>
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<DIV>I'm not sure I'm using the right terminology here but hopefully this makes sense anyway.</DIV>
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<DIV>cheers</DIV>
<DIV>Rebecca</DIV><BR><BR>>>> Rene Stephenson <rinnie1@yahoo.com> 21/02/12 10:59 >>><BR>
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<DIV><SPAN>Hi Schlomo, <BR></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN>Thanks for responding: </SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif"><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>
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