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Working with character styles at relative sizes

Working with character styles at relative sizes

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Working with character styles at relative sizes

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- [Nigel] Hi, I'm Nigel French. Welcome to Type Tips. I'm in InDesign, and I want to talk about creating character styles that are relative in scale. Here I have a typical use of a nested style, a run-in head. So first of all, let me just break down how this is created. This is not the topic of this tip, but I can't really move on to the topic without first explaining how this is created. So, I have a paragraph style which in this case is Tisa Pro 9.5 points, and if I edit this and we come to drop caps in nested styles, we can see that I have a character style which I'm calling runin, which is applied through one colon. And in this case, that's the formatting that is used for my run-in heads. So, without that colon, it's all going to be in the character style. The character style wouldn't get turned off. It's the colon that turns it off, and wherever you place that colon, that's the point at which it is turned off. And there is my…

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