#### 7.6.4 Understanding based vs. inline properties for paragraph formats

Properties inline and based are almost the same; however, inline is a property only of paragraph formats, and its value must be the name of a character format. DITA2Go processes based first, then inline. Therefore you can use the based property to base one paragraph format on another, then change just the character properties of the first paragraph by applying the inline property. For example:

    [SomePara]
    display = block
    based = OtherPara
    inline = SomeChar

With these settings, SomePara would have all the characteristics of OtherPara, except for the character properties of character format SomeChar.

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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

7.6.5 Specifying inline properties for paragraph and character 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