Can linked publisher files share paragraph styles with main document?

[max1josef]

Hi there,

I have a publisher document, which contains a linked publisher file.The headings are formatted with "Heading 1" and the bodies with style "Fancy Body" respectively. The main document and the linked document each have their own set of paragraph styles, so the text is formatted differently, which is absolutely clear.

I'm wondering if it is possible to optionally tell publisher to use the paragraph styles from the main document also in the linked document (thus disabling the local versions in the linked document)?

Thanks in advance

 

Linked_document.afpub Main_document.afpub

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, max1josef said:

I'm wondering if it is possible to optionally tell publisher to use the paragraph styles from the main document also in the linked document (thus disabling the local versions in the linked document)?

No. They are separate documents, and the linked document has its own settings.

[max1josef]

13 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

No. They are separate documents, and the linked document has its own settings.

I feared that...

I was thinking of a concept, similar to the master documents in Libre Office, which can contain several sub documents (as described here). Even if the paragraph styles (templates as they are called in Libre Office) are defined differently in the sub documents, they are formatted consistantly within the master document.

What I would use this for is, for example, a collection of song lyrics. Each song is saved in a separate file. This way I can create different collections of songs (e.g. a document containing all Metallica-songs and another one containing a collection of ballades from different musicians. "Nothing_else_mattes.afpub" would appear in both of them and its formatting would adapt to the respective master document.

Maybe it's worth posting a feature request (or is there already on?).

[walt.farrell]

3 hours ago, max1josef said:

Maybe it's worth posting a feature request (or is there already on?).

I'm not sure if there is one already, or not.

[kenmcd]

3 hours ago, max1josef said:

Maybe it's worth posting a feature request (or is there already on?).

There are a number requests for a "book" feature with chapters.

That is similar to what the LibreOffice master document is doing. The sub-documents are effectively imported into the master and acquire its styles. I say "effectively" because they can remain as separate files. Or they can be actually merged.

You can import or merge your other document to merge the styles.