Changing one single word toitalic style

[Yeou Mohamed]

Dear Colleagues,

I'm in the process of finalizing my dictionary and printing it as a Word file. I've used
the Word style feature to ditinguish between French "normal style" (national) and Berber "Italic style" (vernacular).
However, often times Berber single words are used for comparison purposes in the definition field, dn\, which is by default formatted
to normal. My question is how to format these single words to italic and keep the whole dn\ field in normal style.
Since I haven't found a way to do this systematically, I have singled out these words by putting them between quotes. Thank you in advance.

Best regards

[Nick Thieberger]

Hi,

In the Toolbox system using fv: before a word should mark it as being 'foreign' to the language of the field, and it should then come out in a different style in the MDF export. 

Nick

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[Yeou Mohamed]

Dear Nick,

Thank you so much for your prompt reply.

Best

Le dimanche 9 juin 2019 23:04:03 UTC, Nick Thieberger a écrit :

Hi,

In the Toolbox system using fv: before a word should mark it as being 'foreign' to the language of the field, and it should then come out in a different style in the MDF export. 

Nick

On Mon, 10 Jun 2019 at 08:59, Yeou Mohamed <ye...@ucd.ac.ma> wrote:

Dear Colleagues,

I'm in the process of finalizing my dictionary and printing it as a Word file. I've used
the Word style feature to ditinguish between French "normal style" (national) and Berber "Italic style" (vernacular).
However, often times Berber single words are used for comparison purposes in the definition field, dn\, which is by default formatted
to normal. My question is how to format these single words to italic and keep the whole dn\ field in normal style.
Since I haven't found a way to do this systematically, I have singled out these words by putting them between quotes. Thank you in advance.

Best regards

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[ToolBox Support]

I thank you, too, Nick, for a quick and accurate response.

I'd just like to add a few more details.

fv:  (fv and a colon)  works to mark one word. That word is tagged as character style f_vernacular in Word.

If you have a phrase, you can either mark each word individually or you can connect_the_words_using_underscores. The MDF processing with change the underscores to spaces. An alternative notation:

Instead of fv:words_and_underscores

you can do |fv{words and brackets}

Note the vertical bar before the fv, and no colon, with this alternative notation.

\fv is defined as a marker in the MDF_RTF.typ, which the MDF export uses in the final steps of its processing. That is why the fv: notation works.

This whole process can be generalized. ANY marker can be used in the same manner. So if you wish to cite the scientific name of something (marker \sc) in your definition, you can use sc: for a single word, or the vertical-bar and underlines or the vertical-bar and brackets notation for multiple words. So, you can have either of the three

The Atlantic Bluefin tuna sc:(Thunnus sc:thynnus) ...

The Atlantic Bluefin tuna sc:(Thunnus_thynnus) ...

The Atlantic Bluefin tuna |sc{(Thunnus thynnus)} ...

and it should come out as

 The Atlantic Bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) ...

(Or however you specify that the scientific name style should be printed.)

NOTE: In my test, the final parenthesis was not included with the vertical-bar and underlines example, but it was included with the curly brackets example. So if you have closing punctuation that you want included, the curly brackets ensures that everything between them is included.

Karen

Toolbox Support

On Sun, Jun 9, 2019 at 6:18 PM Yeou Mohamed <yeo...@ucd.ac.ma> wrote:

Dear Nick,

Thank you so much for your prompt reply.

Best

Le dimanche 9 juin 2019 23:04:03 UTC, Nick Thieberger a écrit :

Hi,

In the Toolbox system using fv: before a word should mark it as being 'foreign' to the language of the field, and it should then come out in a different style in the MDF export. 

Nick

On Mon, 10 Jun 2019 at 08:59, Yeou Mohamed <ye...@ucd.ac.ma> wrote:

Dear Colleagues,

I'm in the process of finalizing my dictionary and printing it as a Word file. I've used
the Word style feature to ditinguish between French "normal style" (national) and Berber "Italic style" (vernacular).
However, often times Berber single words are used for comparison purposes in the definition field, dn\, which is by default formatted
to normal. My question is how to format these single words to italic and keep the whole dn\ field in normal style.
Since I haven't found a way to do this systematically, I have singled out these words by putting them between quotes. Thank you in advance.

Best regards

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[Nick Thieberger]

Does anyone know how to do this in FLEx? That is, to mark a word to be treated as another language within a field?

Nick

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[David Nash]

Yes: see the 'Apply Style' section in Help: "you can apply character styles to text in many but not all fields"

David

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