Character Styles dialog

For example, you can create a custom character style with wide letter spacing for specific words and then apply that character style to selected words. Unlike paragraph styles, character styles do not have to apply to whole text frames or text objects.

• You can open the Character Styles dialog in Engrave mode by choosing Engrave > Character Styles.

Figure: Character Styles dialog

The Character Styles dialog contains the following sections and options:

1. Character styles list

   Contains all the character styles in the project.

   The action bar at the bottom of the list contains the following options:

   • New

     

     Allows you to create a new character style with default values.

   • New from Selection

     

     Creates a new style based on the selected one. Initially no values are overridden but you can change options for your new style.

   • Save as Default

     

     Copies the selected style to your library so that it is available in other projects.

   • Revert to Factory

     

     Removes all your changes to the selected predefined character styles, reverting them to the default factory settings.

   • Delete

     

     Deletes the selected style.

     Note

     You cannot delete predefined character styles or any character style that is currently used in your project.

2. Name

   Allows you to enter a name for new character styles or edit the name of existing paragraph styles.

3. Character style options

   Allow you to change parameters of the character style, such as changing the font, making the font bold, changing the size of the font, and changing the letter or word spacing. You can also make the font in paragraph styles appear underlined or overlined, and change the vertical alignment of characters.

4. Color options

   Allow you to change the foreground and background colors of the character style.