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Paragraph Styles

A paragraph style includes both character and paragraph formatting attributes, and can be applied to a paragraph or range of paragraphs. Designers and Administrators can import the following style attributes into the ContentWelder application from InDesign:

Character Styles
Indents and Spacing
Bullets
Numbering
Tabs

Refer to the section below for details on how to create a paragraph style and configure the style attributes listed above.

Access Paragraph Styles

Click on the Designer then Styles menu option as shown below.

In the Styles screen, you can view Character or Paragraph styles. You can also view styles that have been archived.

Create Paragraph Style

Navigate to the "Styles" view, as described in the menu location above. Once the page loads, click the Create then +Paragraph Style option.

The section below describes how to configure the tabs shown in the Create ParagraphStyle dialog window.

Name	Description
Name	The name of the paragraph style.
Default Style?	When enabled, this is the default paragraph style for the system.

Character

The character styles for the paragraph are configured in the tab shown below.

Name	Description
Font Family	The font family for the paragraph style.
Font Style	The font style for the paragraph style.
Color	The color of the font.
Text Size	The size of the font.
Underline	Select "True" to underline the font.
Strikethrough	Select "True" to add a strikethrough to the font.
Position	Options available are: Normal Superscript Subscript
Baseline Shift	The value which would move the character up or down relative to the baseline of the surrounding text in the font.
Horizontal Scale	The value which would change the horizontal size of the selected text in the font.
Vertical Scale	The value which would change the vertical size of the selected text.
Case	The case of text (Normal, All Caps, Small Caps).

Indents and Spacing

Configuration fields for the indents and spacing options are shown below.

Name	Description
Line Height Mode	"Auto" allows you to configure the line height as a percentage and "Unit" allows you to configure the line height in points.
Line Height	If the line height mode is "Auto", input the line height as a percentage. If the line height mode is "Unit", input the line height as a point value.
Text Align	The alignment for the text in the paragraph.
Text Indent (points)	The value for the start of the indent for the text.
Paragraph Start Indent (points)	The value for the start of the indent for the paragraph.
Paragraph End Indent (points)	The value for the end of the indent for the text.
Paragraph Space Before (points)	The value for the space before the paragraph.
Paragraph Space After (points)	The value for the space after the paragraph.

Bullets

Configuration fields for the bullets option is shown below.

Name	Description
Bullet Character Type	Choose the character type that will be used for the bullet: Unicode Only Unicode with Font Glyph with Font
Bullet Character Value	If the bullet character type is unicode, input the decimal Unicode value. If the bullet character type is glypth, input the CID/GID value.
Bullet Font Family	The font family for the bullet.
Bullet Font Style	The font style for the bullet.
Bullet Character Style	The character style for the bullet.
Text After	Input the text will appear after the bullet. InDesign metacharacters may be used, such as ^t for a tab character.
List Alignment	Options available are: Center Left Right

Numbering

Configuration fields for the numbering option is shown below.

Name	Description
Numbering Format	A numbering style for the paragraph.
Number Expression	The numbering text that is used for each list item. Use InDesign metacharacters such as ^# for the current Level number, ^t for tab, ^1 for the Level 1 number, etc.
Number Character Style	A list of character styles for the numbering layout.
List Alignment	The alignment for the numbering layout.
Level	The starting level for the numbering layout.
Start At	The starting number for the numbering layout.
Apply Restart Policy	This controls the circumstances where the numbering of a list will be restarted to its Start At number based on the previous paragraph's numbering Level. Any Previous Level: This option restarts the numbering if the previous paragraph was any previous Level. It does not use the Lower Level or Upper Level fields. After Specific Level: This option restarts the numbering if the previous paragraph's Level matches the value in the Lower Level field. It does not use the Upper level field. Range Of Levels: This option restarts the numbering if the previous paragraph's Level falls in the range of the Lower Level and Upper Level fields.

Tabs

Configuration fields for the tab option is shown below. Bullets and Numbering that use the ^t InDesign metacharacter will use the first tab in the list.

Name	Description
Alignment	The alignment of the text following the tab.
Leader	A repeated pattern of characters, such as a series of dots or dashes, between a tab and the following text.
Position (points)	The position in the paragraph of the start of the text after the tab. For bullets and numbering, this can be used to adjust the space between the bullet or number and the start of the list item.