{"id":40,"date":"2004-10-25T08:57:33","date_gmt":"2004-10-25T15:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nisus.com\/blogs\/?p=40"},"modified":"2004-10-25T09:05:43","modified_gmt":"2004-10-25T16:05:43","slug":"how-do-i-use-those-tags-on-the-statusbar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/how-do-i-use-those-tags-on-the-statusbar\/","title":{"rendered":"How do I understand those tags on the Statusbar?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A number of users have wondered how &#8220;Styles&#8221; (as contrasted with &#8220;styles&#8221; and other attributes such as fonts) interact in a Nisus Writer Express document. They also don&#8217;t understand how the Tags on the Statusbar can help them.<\/p>\n<p>The various Tags of the Statusbar appear when your selected text has the attributes applied. <\/p>\n<p>Believe it or not, text can have no attributes applied. Such text displays in 12-point Helvetica. <\/p>\n<p>Each tag on the Statusbar controls a different kind of grouped attributes. <\/p>\n<ul>\nParagraph Style<br \/>\nCharacter Style<br \/>\nruler (indents, tabs, alignment, line spacing)<br \/>\nfont (font family, typeface, size, variants)<br \/>\ncolor<br \/>\nhighlight<\/ul>\n<p>The way a character is displayed is the result of a merging of all the attributes applied.<\/p>\n<p>You can see which attributes are present by looking at the tags on the Statusbar. <\/p>\n<p>Tags override each other moving from right to left. <\/p>\n<p>In other words&#8230;<br \/>\nTo figure out how some text will display: <\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Take 12-pt Helvetica.\n<li>Apply to it any Paragraph Style attributes using the Styles palette (which may overide the font).\n<li>Apply to that a Character Style using the Styles palette.\n<li>Then apply (i.e. modify) the ruler.\n<li>Then change the font\/size and\/or style stuff (i.e. using the Character palette method, not the Styles palette method).\n<li>Then modify the color.\n<li>Finally add a little highlighter.<\/li>\n<\/li>\n<\/li>\n<\/li>\n<\/li>\n<\/li>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Note that Paragraph and Character Style tags are always visible, they may just be faded if no Style is applied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of users have wondered how &#8220;Styles&#8221; (as contrasted with &#8220;styles&#8221; and other attributes such as fonts) interact in a Nisus Writer Express document. They also don&#8217;t understand how&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}