[Pro] Stubborn Italics

I accidentally discovered command-shift-i tonight and I’m assuming it’s responsible for a stubborn problem on a site page of italics where I don’t want them or existing graphic text italics getting further slant. I assume there’s now a page style doing this, but can’t find the evidence.

I’ve been able to clear some of it with Extended style attributes but on graphic text, I’ve had to highlight each slug of type (there are many on this page) and hit c-s-i each time to correct the slant. This creates an new style in the Style palette that shows just the type styles with no button selected. Based on that, I tried just adding the unselected type style buttons to existing styles without success.

So I’m wondering why this fix is working, if there’s a better way to clear the mysterious page attribute and if I can somehow just add the reparative element to my existing graphic text styles for an easier, more sensible repair.


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First thing to do is select all your text and then Style>Remove Styling and start again.

You are always best to have an idea of what styles you want when you start and then create them in the Style editor.

Once created you can then add styles as you go.

By adding Extended attributes you are likely to lose track of what you have done and get in a pickle - better to have correctly named styles at the start.

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Actually I was working in organized fashion already, which is why I found it so confusing. I had just cleaned up a lot of temp styles FW had generated too. There was no confusion on what was going where before I fumbled the shortcut.

The sudden change to italics everywhere overrode my existing Styles. I had tried removing and re-doing on the palette to no avail. I just tried your Style>Remove Styling and re-did some and it also hasn’t changed the visible look of graphic fonts in Freeway. It did work on the affected html fonts.

Again, I was able to fix the published version with other tricks, but the same fonts on my other pages don’t have this appearance within FW. So the issue is still lurking.

The fact that I was ultimately able to fix them hasn’t quelled my confusion, since the added style that fixes them looks like it’s doing nothing. What could a separate style of unselected Type Style buttons be doing behind the scenes?


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When it comes to styling graphic text looking at an online page isn’t going to help us - unless we can track down a stray style that has been applied to your html as well.

Can you explain what you mean by using c-s-i to correct it.

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Yes, that’s why I didn’t give a URL.

It’s command-shift-i, as in my accidental use of it (meant to hit option-command-i). Even though it seemed to make the change to the whole page, I couldn’t undo it without working piecemeal as described.


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I just stumbled on the solution. I apparently had clicked another style by accident with nothing selected and it was screwing up the page. It had to be just after I’d hit c-s-i so that confused me. Thanks for your efforts, Dave. And I’ll try to gain control of accidents on my end.


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First thing to do is select all your text and then Style>Remove Styling and start again.

That is why I suggested this as a first step - to remove unwanted/accidentally added styles.

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