Struggling with endnotes formatting; new notes not correctly styled

[psheld]

The screenshot here shows the first note properly styled per the Notes panel [style: references].

When I insert a new note, I'm taken to the Endnotes page as expected, but the note is not being styled per the Notes panel.

I'm certain it's a PBKAC issue, so any and all comments most welcome. Thanks in advance.

 

 

[psheld]

When I manually select the second reference, I can set the style manually of course. But then when I type in or paste without formatting, the text has some hyperlink styling.

I really don't know what I'm doing do I?!

 

[MikeTO]

You're not going crazy, you've discovered a bug. I've duplicated the problem.

For notes that are formatted with a paragraph style, the character style applied to the last character of that note will be applied to the next note added. For notes without a paragraph style, the character style and individual character attributes applied to the last character of that note will be applied to the next node added.

To work around this until it's fixed, set the formatting for the new note to No Style to remove the hyperlink formatting carried over from the previous note.

[psheld]

Every time I think a problem is not PBKAC, it is! And now I've humbly suggested it is, and it isn't. 😆

Thanks @MikeTO

[psheld]

No luck I'm afraid. I deleted note 2. Set note 1 to No Style. Set the Notes Panel to use No Style for note body style. Created a new note and get ...

[MikeTO]

Here's the bug report I created for this.

 

[MikeTO]

Just now, psheld said:

No luck I'm afraid. I deleted note 2. Set note 1 to No Style. Set the Notes Panel to use No Style for note body style. Created a new note and get ...

No Style in the panel won't do it. You have to create the note and then choose No Style from the Text Styles panel.

BTW, I recommend defining a paragraph style for Note Body Style instead of using No Style. That will avoid individual character attributes like bold or italics from being carried over even if it won't prevent character styles from being carried over.

[psheld]

Thanks again. I set the Note Body Style back to the references style, and both notes changed accordingly, albeit the second adopting the hyperlink style inherited from the end of the first note.

So then I deleted the second note and manually removed the style of the first note (setting it to No Style). And then tried to add a second note again. No luck, as you can see.

BTW, do you know why my notes have square brackets around them?

[MikeTO]

Really? Here's a screen recording showing how to do it.

FYI the square brackets denote the start and end of an endnote. They are non-printing characters made visible on screen only with Show Special Characters. Ensure your text is typed inside the end brackets, some people with Show Special Characters off mess that up.

I'm unsure why your #2 note is so large compared to your first note. If you define a style in Note Body Style they should all be the same size.

 

 

[psheld]

Star, thank you. I was previously setting the paragraph style to No Style, and I can see clearly in your video now that you are setting the character style to No Style.

So partial success! The second note is now no longer styled as a hyperlink.

But it's still very large to begin with. It defaults for some reason to a Style called references+ rather than simply references. I appreciate this means that it's based on my references paragraph style with a one or more tweaks, clearly font size, but why that should be I don't know. Not a huge deal ... I just manually (re)apply the style.

So all in all, clunky, but hopefully the bug will be resolved by the time I have to go through this again!

Thanks again @MikeTO