The logistics would be daunting.




Yeah, nobody's written a program that can do that since 1988. ReadySetGo!

I never used ReadySetGo, but my guess is that Adobe wouldn't allow
Indesign to get complicated in that way. Personally, I think it would be
great; I hate making lots of character styles. But I see people having
trouble figuring out where formatting is coming from with simple stuff
like nested styles. Imagine the confusion when users begin accidentally
stacking character styles on top of each other. And how would the RTF
export filter work? Right now, ID works basically the same way Word does
(and Quark, and Ventura, and Framemaker). Not that they're out there
worrying about how we get our files from Indesign to Framemaker, but it
sure would make it difficult if you could no longer get an accurate
representation of styles through RTF.

Does ReadySetGo export to RTF? How does it handle stacked character
styles? Does it just reduce all character styles to local character
formatting?


> So if I could do it from the keyboard it seems to me that it can't
> be too daunting to automate what I was already able to do.


Big difference between applying an override to a style and applying two
styles and having both assert the parts of themselves that you want
asserted. And it's not that I believe it can't be done (and I don't
think I said that). I just can't see Adobe doing it.

But go ahead and request it:

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/...?name=wishform

--
Kenneth Benson
Pegasus Type, Inc.
www.pegtype.com