First things first. Here are the versions currently in play:
OL: 7.4.2.3
Mac OS: 10.13.6
I am working on style inheritances and seem to have hit a snag.
All the paragraph styles, formats, and setup are (at this point) spot on. Indeed, if change the parent the children follow as expected.
The character styles are giving me problems, though. There is only one style in play, italic. It exists simply to dispense with direct formatting and in that regard it works as expected.
However…
If you change the font size of the enclosing paragraph the character size does NOT follow. I’ve tired everything I can think of, but nothing seems to make the character style move in tandem with the enclosing paragraph style with respects to size. It does, however, seem to respect the font itself.
I started this by defining the character style to 12pt. That might have been a mistake and forced a setting I did not intend to.
I’ve tired forcing it again to +0 pt and the does not work.
So I have two questions:
- Can character styles conform to the paragraph styles? Or perhaps a better was to ask that is: are character styles children of paragraph styles? The would make sense to me, for all that means
- Can this be made to work the way I expect. If I change the enclosing paragraph font size, can the character size be made to follow?
I should point out that we are talking about one character style here, so it is not onerous to change it manually. It would just be nice if it did it auto-magically.
TIA;
Ken