Thengis are clearer now: For the Spanish version of word they translated
"underlying paragraph style" as "underlined paragraph style". Suzzane's link
proved very useful. Thanks!
Fernando

"Daiya Mitchell" wrote:

Glad that worked.

I'm not totally clear on your second question--are you saying you want to be
able to define the Default Paragraph Font (DPF) to be a certain font?
Right, I can't modify my definition there either--but what my description
says is "the font of the underlying paragraph style +" which perhaps makes
it a little more clear that you can't set the font for DPF because it picks
up the font from the paragraph style. So that if you have character styles
defined as DPF + italic or DPF + red, when you change the font for the
paragraph's style, they will change as well. So I think if you leave all
your character styles as DPF + then they will pick up changes to your base
font. In fact, I think that means you don't need to bother basing character
styles on other character styles, just leave them all based on DPF as is the
default, and you will never have to change them manually, changing the para
style will take care of it.

However, I believe I recall Suzanne Barnhill and perhaps Cindy Meister
having an expert-level discussion of some of the strange characteristics of
the DPF, perhaps Suzanne will chime in.

Aha! Just figured out the confusion between "underlying" and "underlined."

Hope that helps,
Daiya

PS. Just in case it matters--it is Default Paragraph Font in the English
version, but one clicks Modify to change the style.

On 12/2/04 1:13 PM, "F A L" wrote:

Dear Daiya, Thanks for your tip; it worked! You are of course right in
warning me about relying on Normal; FOr my part I deeply distrust it!
Anyway, regarding character styles I have now a related but different
problem: by default all char styles are based upon "Fuente de párrafo
determinado", which is Spanish for (something like) "Default paragraph font".
This style cannot be modified: The option "edit" (or whatever it is in the
English version) is dimmed when this particular style is selected. In turn,
this char style seems to be based on a non existing style, "Parrafo
subrayado" (underlined paragraph: the definition of this style says: "Fuente
del estilo de párrafo subrayado +", i.e. "Underlined paragraph style font").
Of course I could base other char styles on other char styles, but it is
annoying not knowing what is going on: are there styles that are *so*
in-built that cannot be modified? The what is the point of such styles?