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Subject:RE: Missing the point From:"Goldstein, Dan" <DGoldstein -at- DeusTech -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L (E-mail)" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 21 Jan 2004 17:10:29 -0500
How would a character style be "just another manually applied font change?"
The whole point of character styles is to _avoid_ manual formatting.
Dan Goldstein
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dmbrown -at- brown-inc -dot- com
> Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 5:01 PM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: Re: Missing the point
>
> Isaac Rabinovitch wrote:
> > If a consistent display for command names is that
> important, why don't
> > you have a command name character style?
>
> Yep, and that would be just another manually applied font
> change being
> carried over into the TOC automatically (just like Courier
> New or boldface,
> for example) and overriding the default font settings for the TOCx
> paragraph style.
>
> --David
