Hi guys, am using the iPad app along with the Mac app and so far they are seamless. Yay!
I cannot get the Default Style style to indent (the bottom of the MS says "--> Not Available"). This has been VERY annoying as I've had to press the space bar 5 times for a new paragraph rather than merely pressing the tab button. How can I fix this?
I've cut/pasted some text from Pages and have changed the font - is this where I went wrong? I tried importing the entire file from Pages and it was a disaster (all formatting lost, styles all over the place), so am now importing the Pages version in chunks.
Help!
Thank you!
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Started by kramblings, Oct 08 2011 12:16 AM
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Posted 08 October 2011 - 12:44 AM
Hi kramblings,
It sounds like either you've got the tab key shortcut enabled and there is no "Tab" style defined in the style, or your default style doesn't have any tab stops defined.
If you want to use the tab key to indent your paragraphs:
1) Open the Preferences window, select the Text Editing icon, and make sure the "Pressing Tab in an empty paragraph cycles through styles" checkbox is unchecked.
2) Place the cursor is some text having the style you want to use for body text paragraph, choose Format > Style > Edit Current Style, and make sure the style has a default (0.5 works fine for Courier) and at least one stop.
However, consider using the first line indent setting rather than a tab character to indent your paragraphs. If you do, creating Kindle and ePub versions of your manuscript will be straight forward, and you'll save yourself a keystroke on each paragraph.
To set a first line indent in a style:
1) Place the cursor is some text having the style you want to use for body text paragraph, choose Format > Style > Edit Current Style.
2) Set the First Line Indent property to something appropriate (like 0.5).
Then every time you use this style, the proper indent will be applied, and you can use the Tab key to change styles (a productivity trick borrowed from screenwriters). The Novel template is set up this way, so if you're interested in doing this, create a test project from the Novel template, edit the Section Text style, and take a look at how the Tab Style property is set up.
-Steve
kramblings, on 08 October 2011 - 12:16 AM, said:
I cannot get the Default Style style to indent (the bottom of the MS says "--> Not Available"). This has been VERY annoying as I've had to press the space bar 5 times for a new paragraph rather than merely pressing the tab button. How can I fix this?
It sounds like either you've got the tab key shortcut enabled and there is no "Tab" style defined in the style, or your default style doesn't have any tab stops defined.
If you want to use the tab key to indent your paragraphs:
1) Open the Preferences window, select the Text Editing icon, and make sure the "Pressing Tab in an empty paragraph cycles through styles" checkbox is unchecked.
2) Place the cursor is some text having the style you want to use for body text paragraph, choose Format > Style > Edit Current Style, and make sure the style has a default (0.5 works fine for Courier) and at least one stop.
However, consider using the first line indent setting rather than a tab character to indent your paragraphs. If you do, creating Kindle and ePub versions of your manuscript will be straight forward, and you'll save yourself a keystroke on each paragraph.
To set a first line indent in a style:
1) Place the cursor is some text having the style you want to use for body text paragraph, choose Format > Style > Edit Current Style.
2) Set the First Line Indent property to something appropriate (like 0.5).
Then every time you use this style, the proper indent will be applied, and you can use the Tab key to change styles (a productivity trick borrowed from screenwriters). The Novel template is set up this way, so if you're interested in doing this, create a test project from the Novel template, edit the Section Text style, and take a look at how the Tab Style property is set up.
-Steve
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