User's Manual

Creating custom styles
Changing the formatting of your styles
One of the main advantages of styles is that they allow the document formatting to be
changed after the content has been written. For example, suppose you have written a 100
page book of poetry. Then you decide you don’t like the way the poems look after all. Or
perhaps your publisher doesn’t like it.
To learn about reconfiguring styles, we will make the following changes:
• The Poem style will be indented instead of centered.
• Add a PoemAuthor style based on Poem, except it is bold and has more indentation.
Indent Poem and Poem Header
First, set the Poem style to left alignment:
1) From the Stylist, select Poem, right-click and select Modify.
2) Go to the Alignment tab and select left alignment.
Set the indentation:
1) Go to the Indents & Spacing tab.
2) Under Indent, set the indentation before the text to 5cm (or about 2in).
Done! Click OK, and you should see the text change. Do the same thing for PoemHeading.
Create Poem Author style
You already know how to create a new style. Follow the same procedure as before (starting
from the Poem style). Use the following configuration:
• Name: PoemAuthor.
• Next style: Default.
• Linked with: Poem.
Now, configure PoemAuthor just like you configured Poem, with the following changes:
• Font: bold.
• Indentation: 8cm (3.2 in).
• Under the Indents & Spacing tab, under Spacing, set the spacing above the paragraph
to 0.5cm (0.2 in). This creates an extra space between the poem and the name of the
author.
These settings are shown in Figure 18.
The purpose of this style is to set apart the name of the author from the rest of the poem.
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