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Diff b/w charecterformats . paragraphformat.

Former Member — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 07:08:20 GMT

hi experts

can any one clarify the diffence between charecterformat and paragraph formt...

advance in thnx

Regds

Venky

Re: Diff b/w charecterformats . paragraphformat.

Former Member — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 07:14:12 GMT

paragraph format tells about the look and alignment..

Left Margin

Right Margin

Indent 1st l

Space before

Space After

and charcter format tells about the how the fonts look

like bold,italic,superscript,subscript,barcode....

Re: Diff b/w charecterformats . paragraphformat.

Former Member — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 07:15:16 GMT

Hi peravalli,

1. More or less they are same.

2. Paragraph format applies to the

WHOLE LINE / PARAGRAPH

and we enter it in the TAG column.

3. Whereeas character format is entered

in the data itself.

<B>thisisbold</> <I>Italic</>

ie. It applies to <> ... </> only.

(Much like html tags)

4. One more difference is in features.

in paragraph we can specify tabs also.

I hope it helps.

Regards,

amit m.

Re: Diff b/w charecterformats . paragraphformat.

Former Member — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 07:16:44 GMT

using character format you can specify the font type, size also..

they are different .....

they are not same...

vijay

Re: Diff b/w charecterformats . paragraphformat.

Former Member — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 07:19:02 GMT

paragraph format corresponds to one full line

eg use paragraph format for header

HD THIS IS HEADER

in its properties, u need to specify the font size, alignment, bold or not, etc.

now if u have a sentence where in between u have a word u need to put in italics(just for eg), u need to insert a character format like THIS <IT>IS</> HEADER.

now watever characteristics u put in character foramt IT, the 'IS' in the sentence will be displayed like that.

Hope it helps.

Regards,

Bikash

Re: Diff b/w charecterformats . paragraphformat.

Former Member — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 07:19:06 GMT

Hi,

To format texts in forms, you need paragraph and character formats. You define them in the form itself. If you are working with the line editor, the paragraphs you define here appear in the possible values list (F4) for the format column beside the system-defined standard paragraphs.

Paragraph format: In PG u can define the line spacing and margins of a particular paragraph in a window.

Where as in charecter format u can't specify the margins...you can define the font etc....

In PG you can define TABS which are used to specify spacing....

This you cant do in CF.

Thanks.

If this helps u reward with points.

Message was edited by: Deepak333 k

Re: Diff b/w charecterformats . paragraphformat.

Former Member — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 07:19:29 GMT

Hi,

You can define how the text has to be printed in the script using Character format, the following are the character formats that can be used,

B - Bold

IT - Italics

UL - Underlined

PT - Protected etc,,

Using paragraph format, you can define the alignment of the text in a paragraph, following are defined at paragraph level,

Alignment, line spacing, Tab, left & right margin respectively,

Hope this helps,

Rgds,