Auto-titles and paragraph-character styles
Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2020 10:01 am
There's one thing in Mellel I still cannot get my head around and this has to do with the styles work with respect to the auto-titles.
The first thing that is a bit confusing is that the first element in the auto-title sequence corresponds to 'heading 1' but then 'heading 1' is associated to the Title paragraph and character styles. Then 'heading 2' is associated to the 'heading' styles, 'heading 3' to 'heading B' ...
This is causing me problems because when I export a document to the Word format (this was the main reason I upgraded to Mellel 5), Word does not recognize a title as one of its default heading styles and thus it does not incorporate it to the generation of table of contents, outlines, etc.
Then there is a second related problem. That is that I cannot seem to modify the default styles in Mellel. If I change, for instance, the font associated to 'heading', I get a new 'heading' marked with ◆ next to it. This is no longer the main 'heading' style and any additional changes I introduce will only modify this new 'heading' style.
This is also bad for conversions to Word because the different modified Mellel headings are not recognized as headings by MS Word. If I keep the default headings without modifying anything, though, MS Word will recognize all of them except for 'heading 1', since, as I said, that is associated with 'title' and not with any heading paragraph styles.
Am I doing something wrong or this is the way this is intended to work? One should be able to set the default styles to one's liking, right? It is OK to create additional styles for special projects but if every time you want to do something different, it creates a copy of the default style with a ◆ keeping the same name, this gets to be a bit confusing and difficult to manage.
Again, it is very likely that I'm just doing something wrong. This is why I would like to ask for your help in this forum. Thanks very much in advance.
JM
The first thing that is a bit confusing is that the first element in the auto-title sequence corresponds to 'heading 1' but then 'heading 1' is associated to the Title paragraph and character styles. Then 'heading 2' is associated to the 'heading' styles, 'heading 3' to 'heading B' ...
This is causing me problems because when I export a document to the Word format (this was the main reason I upgraded to Mellel 5), Word does not recognize a title as one of its default heading styles and thus it does not incorporate it to the generation of table of contents, outlines, etc.
Then there is a second related problem. That is that I cannot seem to modify the default styles in Mellel. If I change, for instance, the font associated to 'heading', I get a new 'heading' marked with ◆ next to it. This is no longer the main 'heading' style and any additional changes I introduce will only modify this new 'heading' style.
This is also bad for conversions to Word because the different modified Mellel headings are not recognized as headings by MS Word. If I keep the default headings without modifying anything, though, MS Word will recognize all of them except for 'heading 1', since, as I said, that is associated with 'title' and not with any heading paragraph styles.
Am I doing something wrong or this is the way this is intended to work? One should be able to set the default styles to one's liking, right? It is OK to create additional styles for special projects but if every time you want to do something different, it creates a copy of the default style with a ◆ keeping the same name, this gets to be a bit confusing and difficult to manage.
Again, it is very likely that I'm just doing something wrong. This is why I would like to ask for your help in this forum. Thanks very much in advance.
JM