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The <strong>Style</strong> menu is used to modify the style of text. It does not modify lines or frames (for which you need the <strong>Object</strong> menu), or the formatting of text (for which you need the <strong>Format</strong> menu). The <strong>Style</strong> menu is only available when a text frame is active.
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If no text is marked when a style is chosen, any characters subsequently typed will be displayed in that style. If a block of text is marked when a style is chosen, all the marked text is changed to the chosen style. If the caret is repositioned elsewhere in the document, any characters typed will appear in the style specified for that position in the document.
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The styles currently active at the caret or in marked text are indicated by ticks on the <strong>Style</strong> menu. Please note that <strong>Superscript</strong> or <strong>Subscript</strong> and <strong>Underline</strong> or <strong>Word Underline</strong> are mutually exclusive, i.e. they cannot be assigned to the same text. Assigning <strong>Superscript</strong> while <strong>Subscript</strong> is selected will cancel <strong>Subscript</strong>.
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Please note that many style changes can be 'toggled' on and off. For example, selecting <strong>Bold</strong> while a tick is displayed beside <strong>Bold</strong> on the <strong>Style</strong> menu will cancel the selection of <strong>Bold</strong> and return to normal text.
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Style changes made directly from the <strong>Style</strong> menu are always local styles and the <strong>Style</strong> menu is also used for defining paragraph styles. Please refer to <strong>Chapter 9</strong> for further details.
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<h4>Normal Text</h4>

<strong>Normal Text</strong> de-selects all other style choices except <strong>Colour</strong>. It switches off such effects as <strong>Bold</strong>, <strong>Italic</strong>, <strong>Underline</strong> etc. and resets <strong>Horizontal Scale</strong> to 100% and <strong>Tracking/Kerning</strong> to 0.
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This is normal text.
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This option can also be selected using <strong>Shift</strong> <strong>Ctrl N</strong>.
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<h4>Bold</h4>

<strong>Bold</strong> selects the bold variant of the current font. It is useful for highlighting words or paragraphs.
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Example of <strong>bold</strong> text.
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Please note that although <strong>Bold</strong> can always be selected, the text will only appear bold if there is a bold (or Demi) version of the font installed.
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This option can also be selected using <strong>Shift</strong> <strong>Ctrl B</strong>.
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<h4>Italic</h4>

<strong>Italic</strong> selects the italic version of the current font.
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Example of <cite>italicised</cite> text.
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Please note that although <strong>Italic</strong> can always be selected, the text will only appear in italics if there is an italic (or oblique) version of the font installed on your system.
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This option can also be selected using <strong>Shift</strong> <strong>Ctrl I</strong>.
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<h4>Underline</h4>

<strong>Underline</strong> underlines all characters including spaces and punctuation characters.
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Example of underlined</u> text.
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This option can also be selected using <strong>Shift</strong> <strong>Ctrl U</strong>.
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<h4>Superscript</h4>

<strong>Superscript</strong> reduces the point size of the text to approximately 60%, and raises it above the normal baseline.
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Example of superscript text.
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This option can also be selected using <strong>Shift</strong> <strong>Ctrl +</strong>. Use the + from the main keyboard for this option.
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<h4>Subscript </h4>

<strong>Subscript</strong> reduces the point size of the text to approximately 60%, and moves it down below the baseline.
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Example of subscript text.
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This option can also be selected using <strong>Shift</strong> <strong>Ctrl -</strong>. Use the - from the main keyboard for this option. 
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<h4>Reverse</h4>

<strong>Reverse</strong> swaps over the current text and background colours. By default, text appears black on a white background. <strong>Reverse</strong> changes it to white text on a black background.
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Example of reversed text.
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Please note that <strong>Reverse</strong> cannot be used in transparent text frames.
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This option can also be selected using <strong>Shift</strong> <strong>Ctrl V</strong>.
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<h4>Word Underline</h4>

<strong>Word Underline</strong> underlines all characters except spaces.
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Example of word underlining.</u>
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This option can also be selected using <strong>Shift</strong> <strong>Ctrl W</strong>.
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<h4>Title</h4>

<strong>Title</strong> changes the first letter of each word to upper case and the rest to lower case. Any single characters will be changed to upper case.
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Example of title style
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Note that you cannot subsequently swap cases in a passage in <strong>Title s</strong>tyle; the first letter of each word is 'locked' in capitals and other letters are 'locked' in lowercase.
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This option can also be selected using <strong>Shift</strong> <strong>Ctrl T</strong>.
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<h4>All Caps</h4>

<strong>All Caps</strong> changes all letters to normal size capitals.
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Example of all caps style
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This option can also be selected using <strong>Shift</strong> <strong>Ctrl A</strong>.
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<h4>Small Caps</h4>

<strong>Small Caps</strong> changes all lower case letters to small capitals i.e. 75% the height of normal capitals. Upper case letters remain unchanged.
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Example Of Small Caps Style
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This option can also be selected using <strong>Shift</strong> <strong>Ctrl S</strong>.
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<h4>Condensed</h4>

<strong>Condensed</strong> sets the horizontal scale of the text to 60%.
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This is condensed text.
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See below for details of <strong>Horizontal Scale</strong>.
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This option can also be selected using <strong>Shift</strong> <strong>Ctrl K</strong>.
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<h4>Enlarged</h4>

<strong>Enlarged</strong> sets the horizontal scale of the text to 200% i.e. double width.
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This is enlarged text.
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See below for details of <strong>Horizontal Scale</strong>.
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This option can also be selected using <strong>Shift</strong> <strong>Ctrl E</strong>.
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<h4>Horizontal Scale</h4>

Horizontal Scale allows you to compress or expand text horizontally. You can scale text from 10% to 500% of the unscaled character width without changing the character height. The default value for <strong>Horizontal Scale</strong> is 100%.
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75% horizontal scaling
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100% horizontal scaling
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125% horizontal scaling
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150% horizontal scaling
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<strong>Horizontal Scale</strong> can also be adjusted directly from the keyboard in 5% increments from 10% to 500%, using the following keys:
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<strong>Ctrl [</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; decrease horizontal scale (condense text)
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<strong>Ctrl ]</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; increase horizontal scale (enlarge text)
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<h4>Kerning/Tracking</h4>

<strong>Kerning</strong> moves characters further apart or closer together by adjusting the white space to the right of the characters. Characters are moved apart using positive kerning and closer together using negative kerning. <strong>Kerning</strong> is normally used to improve the appearance of certain letter pairs. For example, the pairs AV and WA may look better if they are moved closer together. In the example below the first pair of letters are spaced normally (zero kerning), while the second pair have a kerning value of -300.
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AV   AV
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The kerning value for text with normal letter spacing is 0. This is the default value. <strong>Kerning</strong> may be set to any integer value between -500 and 500. Kerning values are specified in 0.001 of an em space. A kerning value of 500 puts an en space between adjacent letters, whilst -500 causes adjacent letters that are an en space wide to overlap. To kern a pair of characters, place the caret between them, and adjust the kerning value as necessary.
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<h4>EN and EM Spaces</h4>

Traditionally an em space is defined as the width of the capital letter M in a given font and size. This type of measurement is useful because it is relative to the font and size rather than fixed. Another unit often used in typesetting is an en space. This is defined as half the width of an em space (although this is not necessarily the width of the letter N). In Ovation an em space is defined as the overall height of the font bounding box for a given point size.
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<h4>Tracking</h4>

If there is a marked block of text in your document, <strong>Kerning</strong> changes to <strong>Tracking</strong> on the <strong>Style</strong> menu. <strong>Tracking</strong> is identical in operation to <strong>Kerning</strong> and uses the same units, but is applied to a marked block of text rather than a pair of characters. Negative tracking is useful for reducing excessive white space in large fonts, or for fitting type onto lines. Positive tracking can give attractive results for titles and headings.
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example of text tracked -100
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example of text tracked 0
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example of text tracked 100
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example of text tracked 250
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example of text tracked 500
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<h4>Colour</h4>

<strong>Colour</strong> is used to choose the colour for your text. When you click on <strong>Colour</strong> the <strong>Colour</strong> dialogue box appears:
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Normally there are 16 standard colours to choose from, but you can mix completely new colours using the slider bars. The standard colours are shown in small boxes towards the bottom of the dialogue box. To choose one of these colours, simply click on it. Notice that the chosen colour appears in the colour mixing box positioned to the left of the standard colours. When you are happy with your colour selection, click on <strong>OK</strong>.
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To mix your own colour you must set the correct intensities of the primary colours; red, green and blue. Each intensity is expressed as a number in the range 0 to 255. First choose one of the standard 16 colours that you wish to base your new colour on, then adjust the red, green and blue levels using one of the following methods:
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 <li> Drag the colour slider to the required level.
 <li> Click on the number to the left of the slider, and type in a value.
 <li> Click on the up and down arrows to the left of the slider.
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The colour mixing box shows the colour as it is mixed.
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Please note that every possible colour shade that you mix cannot be shown on the screen, so Ovation displays the best approximation possible for the current screen mode. However, the exact colour is always recorded internally so that it can be displayed as accurately as possible in other screen modes or when printed. Obviously, 256-colour screen modes such as mode 15 give the best approximations.
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