Milan, You wrote:
>File A has a paragraph. Some text in this paragraph is formatted with >a character tag. In File B, I create a <$paratext> type x-ref to bring >in this paragraph. The character formatting, however, doesn't appear. >Files A and B have indentical formats, etc. (imported from A into B >just to make sure). > >I'm looking at some legacy document in which the character formatting >does come across in the x-ref'd text, but I can't see how to make it >happen in my File B. What can I check to see where the difference is >between the two? In the context of cross-references, <$paratext> ignores character formatting present in the source paragraph text, except superscript, subscript and font family properties, which are retained only if applied through a character tag. Shlomo Perets MicroType, FrameMaker/Acrobat training & consulting "24 easy ways to improve your PDFs with FrameMaker-to-Acrobat TimeSavers/Assistants", http://www.microtype.com/ImprovePDF.html