#### 7.6.3 Specifying default properties for paragraph formats

The DITA2Go-supplied format templates include basic default properties for character and paragraph formats. If your project configuration file references the chain of format templates, these properties will be in effect for any text formats you define. You can change the defaults by including your own settings in the corresponding local_ format configuration file or in your own format configuration file, referenced via [Templates]Formats; see.§7.2 Working with format configuration files.

To specify default properties for paragraph formats (for example):

    [Para]
    help = Default paragraph format for a block element
    category = ParagraphFormats  Configuration Manager text-format category
    display = block              This is a block format.
    inline = Char                Use the character properties of format Char.
    line height = 11pt           Make leading 11 points.

Paragraph format Para is the default format for any block element to which you have not assigned a format name.

DITA2Go applies each of the values specified for Para, and also for default character format Char (because Para references Char via property inline), to any paragraph format for which you do not specify a different value for the property in question.

The property values listed in [Char] and [Para] for inline and block properties, respectively, are the default values. Unless you want to specify a different value for a particular property, you do not have to include any of these property settings for a text format.

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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

7.6.4 Understanding based vs. inline 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