#### 7.6.5 Specifying inline properties for paragraph and character formats

The properties listed in Table 7-2 define the appearance of text formats in both HTML and RTF output.

Table 7-2 Inline properties for text formats

Property name | Valid property values
    based
| Name of another character format
    font family
| One or more font names per CSS rules. For outputs which allow only single fonts, such as RTF, the first font name is used. For RTF output, do not enclose the font name in quotes
    font name
| Synonym for font family
    font size
| Size; see §7.5.3 Establishing base values and units of measurement
    font style
| normal, italic, or oblique
    font variant
| normal or small-caps
    font weight
| normal or bold
    font kern
| Percent or points or other units: positive number to expand text, negative number to compress text
    text decoration
| none, or a combination of underline, overline, and strike-through
    text transform
| none, uppercase, lowercase, or capitalize
    color
| CSS color designation
    background color
| CSS color designation
    selector
| (HTML output only) Format name preceded by a dot, for CSS use; overrides the default .class

For example:

    [Bold]
    based = Char
    font weight = bold

    [Italic]
    based = Char
    font style = italic

Bold and Italic both incorporate the properties of character format Char; see §7.6.2 Specifying default properties for character formats.

To specify text color for a heading (for example):

    [MySubHeading]
    based = Heading2
    color = rgb(42,96,148)

To show a horizontal line above the heading, you could use either a block-property fixed-length line in any color, or an inline-property overline in the same color as the text. For the inline property you would add:

    text decoration = overline

For the block property, you would instead specify a top border for the paragraph:

    border top = MyBorder

And then define the border format:

    [MyBorder]
    color = rgb(42,96,148)
    type = single
    thick = 1pt
    space = 6pt

See §8.2 Defining border format components.

To compress text in a paragraph format using a percent value for font kern:

    [CellCodePara]
    based = CodePara
    font size = 9pt
    font kern = -5%

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Parent Topic: 7.6 Configuring text output formats

Sibling Topics:

7.6.1 Naming and defining text formats

7.6.2 Specifying default properties for character formats

7.6.3 Specifying default properties for paragraph formats

7.6.4 Understanding based vs. inline properties for paragraph formats

7.6.6 Specifying block properties for paragraph formats

7.6.7 Configuring list formats

7.6.8 Assigning border properties to paragraph formats

7.6.9 Configuring character formats for HTML links

7.6.10 Specifying tab positions for RTF paragraph styles