Paragraph and character styles

Use paragraph styles to format headlines, body text, credits, column heads, bylines and other paragraph based text elements. They format entire paragraph.

See also Sequential (chained) paragraph styles and Nested (cascading) paragraph styles.

Use character styles to format parts of text, such as underlines, small caps, to change tracking, to insert dingbats and similar. They affect the selected block of text only.

GNML styles are collections of built-in GNML tags or custom tags and styles. A GNML style may contain a number of built-in GNML tags and GNML styles, therefore, may set more than one typographical characteristics of the text at once. Custom tags may have 1-10 parameters. For example, the GNML paragraph style "Body" may correspond to the built-in GNML tags >h 12pt<>ld 13pt<>paj<>ql< and set (in the same time) the type size, leading and paragraph justification.

User-defined GNML styles are created in the EdAdmin4. The user-defined GNML styles are created and edited during the installation period or later. The custom tags are stored in libraries of styles and formats.

You can also create paragraph styles from Ted4 or Fred4. See Create a new style from the selection.

The GNML styles are stored in libraries as 'paragraph' or 'character' styles. Paragraph styles may be accessed through paragraph style palette , character styles may be accessed through character style palette.

The main difference between GNML styles and GNML user-defined tags is that GNML styles may be applied by the style palettes (as for any standard word processor or page make up package). GNML styles with parameters appear to end-users as custom dialog boxes. In such case, they're called 'variable styles'.

Order in which the GNML styles are created in a style library is, generally, ignored by applications, therefore, any order is good.