Apple Pages '08 - Manual (Page 125)

Chapter 6 Working with Styles 125
Border & Rules: Selected text can be separated in a document by adding a line above or
below or by framing the text with a border. Specify line style, placement, and color
using the Borders & Rules pop-up menu, buttons, and color well.
Background Fills: Select a checkbox and click the color well to make a color background
appear behind a character or a set of characters or one or more paragraphs. For
example, you can create a heading style that presents white text against a dark
background. The color extends from the left paragraph margin to the right.
Following Paragraph Style: If you want a particular paragraph style to always follow the
current style when you press the Return key, choose the style from the pop-up menu.
For example, you might create a photo caption style that should always be followed by
a byline style.
Pagination & Break: Select how the paragraph can break across pages. You can specify
that lines of this paragraph should always stay together on the same page, should stay
with the following paragraph, or can only appear at the top of a page. The last two of
these are particularly useful for heading styles. Select “Prevent widow & orphan lines” to
prevent leaving individual lines on the following or previous pages.
Language: Choose a language from the pop-up menu to specify the language used to
spell-check this paragraph. If your document will include quotes or sections in another
language, you can specify a language for the spelling dictionary used in those
paragraphs. The spelling dictionary determines how words are spelled and hyphenated.
Remove hyphenation for paragraph: Select this checkbox if you want to turn off
automatic hyphenation for this paragraph style in a document that has automatic
hyphenation turned on. (To turn it on for the document, select Hyphenate in the
Document pane of the Document Inspector.)
Remove ligatures: A ligature is a stylish flourish between letters or at the end or
beginning of lines. Ligatures are used by some fonts to combine two or more text
characters into one glyph. Select this checkbox if you don’t want to use ligatures in a
selected paragraph that has ligatures turned on. (To turn it on for the document, use
the Document Inspector. If any text is selected when you remove ligatures, it will be
applied to the selected text as a style override, unless you complete step 7, below.)
Baseline Shift: A negative number places the text lower than the surrounding text. A
positive number places the text higher than the surrounding text. Enter a number in
the field. (If any text is selected when you set the baseline shift, it will be applied to the
selected text as a style override, unless you complete step 7, below.)