Request: Style Override Highlighter

[Thomas Effing]

Hello all! 

I am an expert *now former* Adobe InDesign user — although I love the application I have no desire for the Adobe malware and poor user support that comes with it — and a lecturer in graphic design at one of Europe‘s leading art academies, and I just switched to Affinity Publisher a week or so ago, and, honestly, I am loving this piece of software. Well done!

One of the features I would love to see integrated into Affinity Publisher — at least I have not found it yet if it is there — is a function/button called ‘Style Override Highlighter’ in the Paragraph Styles palette of InDesign: it shows/highlights which formatted text has overrides (e.g. Font Size, Tracking) in relation to the Text Style that it uses.

This would be a great addition to any typographer’s workflow, or at least those working with large bodies of text, as I do.

Keep up the good work.

[garrettm30]

I agree. Here is my take on it from some time ago, and it still reflects my current thoughts on it:

 

[Wosven]

Different highlight options would be useful, for missing fonts, overrides, and as work mode to distinguish easily the line and word where the cursor is, especially when using the search function:

 

[garrettm30]

6 hours ago, Wosven said:

and as work mode to distinguish easily the line and word where the cursor is, especially when using the search function:

Agree to all. I hadn't thought of the last one. Such a feature is useful in text editors for coding, but it could indeed be good as an option here, especially for FaR, as it is often hard to see where the selected text is.

[sfriedberg]

And here's yet another place it was requested:

 

[gedankenstrich]

I'm very pleased to see that Publisher v2 now supports footnotes (and also endnotes and margin notes). And for a 1.0 version of Footnotes, I'm very excited about the feature set and flexibility with lots of options for delimitable footnote areas (star footnotes vs. regular footnotes). 

But what I really, really miss is a clearly identifiable markup of overrides over styles.

I usually try to map necessary formatting to character formats at the beginning of layout work and erase superfluous formatting. For this, it would be a great help if the deviations were clearly visible. 

And secondly, it would be helpful to have a method of erasing all formatting that is not represented in paragraph or character formats.
In InDesign, this is possible with the help of scripts. Since Publilsher does not support scripting, an internal method to erase deviations across all paragraphs/paragraph styles would be very helpful.
 

[MikeTO]

As you said, this would be a great feature to be added via a script. Fortunately, Serif has stated that scripting is in development.