arst@polari.UUCP (Mike Arst) (04/06/91)
Any QuarkXPress 3.0 users out there? For some time I have been trying to figure out how to circumvent one of the major limitations of the style sheets. If I have a paragraph(s) that must be re-styled, that should normally be an easy shot: just click on the style name. However, it turns out that due to a bug (I guess; I wouldn't call it much of a feature!) sometimes some or all of the new style's attributes don't "take" properly. Well then, there's one easy-out: change it to a "No Style" paragraph, then apply the new one. But there's a big drawback to that: in my experience, the moment you apply a style name to a "No Style" paragraph, any and all hard formatting is lost immediately - including bold, italics, small caps, superscripts, and so on and so forth. Needless to say, this is not convenient and in some situations could be quite the disaster. The only way I can imagine dealing with it is to save the text out through the XPress Tags filter, edit it with something like Vantage, save it out as plain text again, then re-import it through the Tags filter, replacing the existing text. It strikes me that this much kludgery shouldn't be necessary! But is there some alternative? If anyone has a workaround, please sing out. I would sure love to have that workaround. Mike Arst, Seattle, WA polari!arst@sumax.seattleu.edu