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Subject:RE: highlighting text in Frame? From:Sean Brierley <seanb_us -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 7 Oct 2003 06:03:39 -0700 (PDT)
I think it sucks. You should be able to overlap
character tags (and conditions should work as they do
in RH, while I'm on about it). But, as goober notes,
if you know the limitation, the workaround is a no
brainer (create new tags that perform as would
overlapping the tags you want).
> Yep. FM remembers the last one applied and inherits
> any pre-existing formatting through "as-is"
> character
> style settings.
>
> Some say this sucks. Personally, I think it's
> brilliant, and is a problem only for those who don't
> think their document conventions through.
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