Adobe InDesign CS4 - Manual (Page 199)

191 USING INDESIGN CS4
Styles
Note: For best results, apply nested styles as part of paragraph styles. If you apply nested styles as local overrides to a
paragraph, subsequent editing or formatting changes in the nested style can produce unexpected character formatting in
the styled text.
3 Click New Nested Style one or more times.
4 Do any of the following for each style, and then click OK:
• Click the character style area, and then select a character style to determine the appearance of that section of the
paragraph. If you haven’t created a character style, choose New Character Style and specify the formatting you want
to use.
• Specify the item that ends the character style formatting. You can also type the character, such as a colon (:) or a
specific letter or number. You cannot type a word.
• Specify how many instances of the selected item (such as characters, words, or sentences) are required.
• Choose Through or Up To. Choosing Through includes the character that ends the nested style, while choosing Up
To formats only those characters that precede this character.
• Select a style and click the up button or down button to change the order of the styles in the list. The order
of the styles determines the sequence in which the formatting is applied. The formatting defined by the second style
begins where the formatting of the first style concludes. If you apply a character style to the drop cap, the drop-cap
character style acts as the first nested style.
Create nested line styles
You can apply a character style to a specified number of lines in a paragraph. As with nested styles, you can set up two
or more nested line styles to work together, and you can create a repeating sequence.
Attributes applied by nested line styles can co-exist with attributes applied by nested styles. For example, a nested line
style can apply a color while a nested style can apply italics. If both set conflicting settings of the same attribute, such
as red and blue, the nested style takes precedence over the nested line style.
1 Create one or more character styles that you want to use to format text.
2 Do one of the following:
• To add nested line styles to a paragraph style, double-click the paragraph style, and then click Drop Caps And
Nested Styles.
• To add nested line styles to a single paragraph, choose Drop Caps And Nested Styles from the Paragraph panel
menu.
3 Click New Nested Line Style one or more times.
4 Click the character style area, and then select a character style to determine the appearance of that section. If you
haven’t created a character style, choose New Character Style and specify the formatting you want to use.
5 Specify the number of paragraph lines you want the character style to affect.
Select a style and click the up button or down button to change the order of the styles in the list. The order
determines the sequence in which the formatting is applied.
6 Click OK.
Updated 18 June 2009