First Line Indented Despite First Line Indent Being 0

[Demonskunk]

I've been desperately trying to figure out why this is happening, and I'm not sure if it's a bug.

The first picture is what's happening. The first line of the bulleted list is indented despite the fact that First Line Indent is set to 0.

The second screenshot is what I WANT it to look like, and I could easily change that style to be what I want, but I don't wan to go through the ENTIRE DOCUMENT and apply the NEW style to every instance.

[Catshill]

3 hours ago, Demonskunk said:

The second screenshot is what I WANT it to look like, and I could easily change that style to be what I want, but I don't wan to go through the ENTIRE DOCUMENT and apply the NEW style to every instance.

If you have bullets throughout a document then to ensure they are consistent you will need to do that regardless of having a bullet style set up. However having a bullet style will make it much easier to apply a consistent style and importantly will mean that if you do want to change the layout, you only need to edit the style and that will be applied across the document.

[Demonskunk]

1 hour ago, Catshill said:

If you have bullets throughout a document then to ensure they are consistent you will need to do that regardless of having a bullet style set up. However having a bullet style will make it much easier to apply a consistent style and importantly will mean that if you do want to change the layout, you only need to edit the style and that will be applied across the document.

I have bullets elsewhere in the book (Different document) using the same style and they work as intended.

[Hangman]

1 hour ago, Demonskunk said:

I have bullets elsewhere in the book (Different document) using the same style and they work as intended.

Can you upload a screenshot showing the Text Style settings for your Bulleted list?

[Demonskunk]

2 minutes ago, Hangman said:

Can you upload a screenshot showing the Text Style settings for your Bulleted list?

 

[Hangman]

Thanks for the screenshot...

I'm slightly unsure in that case why your style isn't being applied in certain instances... Could you perhaps upload a sample page where you're seeing the issue so we can take a look...

This is the text style paragraph spacing based on 20 pt text...

[RM f/g]

Paragraph spacing: Left Indent = 0.125 in; First Line Indent = 0. That should work.

or

Add ‘Indent to Here’ after tab in ‘Bullets and Numbering’.

[Demonskunk]

7 hours ago, Hangman said:

Thanks for the screenshot...

I'm slightly unsure in that case why your style isn't being applied in certain instances... Could you perhaps upload a sample page where you're seeing the issue so we can take a look...

 

This is the text style paragraph spacing based on 20 pt text...

Yeah, here you go.

AA_PT12_Bestiary.pdf

[Hangman]

Hi @Demonskunk,

Do you have the original Affinity Publisher file or does it only exist as a pdf? If so, could you upload the Publisher doc that includes your text styles...

[Demonskunk]

Just now, Hangman said:

Hi @Demonskunk,

Do you have the original Affinity Publisher file or does it only exist as a pdf? If so, could you upload the Publisher doc that includes your text styles...

Oh, my dumbass- Here it is, sorry.

AA_PT12_Bestiary.afpub

[Hangman]

Hi @Demonskunk,

Many thanks for the file...

It's exactly as @RM f/g mentions above... Just edit your text style as follows...

[Demonskunk]

47 minutes ago, Hangman said:

Hi @Demonskunk,

Many thanks for the file...

It's exactly as @RM f/g mentions above... Just edit your text style as follows...

 

Oh my god, thank you so much. I THOUGHT I did that and it didn't work. I just tried it and it's fixed.

[Hangman]

Just now, Demonskunk said:

Oh my god, thank you so much. I THOUGHT I did that and it didn't work. I just tried it and it's fixed

No problem at all, glad it was a simple fix...

[Demonskunk]

5 hours ago, Hangman said:

No problem at all, glad it was a simple fix...

I'm having a similar problem in a different place. My first chapter's ToC updated itself (I guess) and messed up my formatting. A bunch of things are extremely indented. If I look in the Paragraph tab I can see that it's extremely indented, but if I look at the paragraph style, there's no indentation, and if I set it to 0 in the paragraph style nothing changes. It also has no character style, so I'm completely lost, and confused.

[Demonskunk]

If I apply a different Paragraph Style then put the old one back on it fixes itself? This is so bizarre. I'm going to attach the file so you can look at it if you're so inclined.

AA_PT01_Intro.afpub

[Hangman]

Hi @Demonskunk,

All you've done here is override the text style by adjusting the Left and First Line indents in the Paragraph panel... Doing so won't update the original text style which is why the values there still show as either zero or No Change...

If you select the respective text styles in the Text Styles Panel you can see right at the top of the panel the text style name has a '+' after its name. This is an indcator to show that the stylefor the selected text has been modified manually so differs from the original values set in the text style itself...

If you expand the Chevron to the left of the stlye name you can see all the additional characteristics added to that text style...

TOC 1: Section Header + C + Font: Exo2.0-Bold; Character outline: solid 2 pt; Hyperlink settings; Final Forms: Off; Initial Forms: Off; Isolated Forms: Off; Medial Forms: Off; All caps; Leading mode: % height; Align to baseline grid: Off; Maximum consecutive hyphens: 3; Use sum of space before and after; Leading: 90 %; Left indent: 0.521 in; First line indent: 0.521 in

Any change you want to make to the styling should ideally be made to the Text Style itself as that will impact all instances using that Text Style globally across your document. Any changes you make to selected text in the Paragraph and Character panels will just update those instances locally.

If you select the affected text then reapply the Text Style by clicking the 'Reapply Text Styles' icon at the top right of the Text Styles panel then edit the Text Style to apply any Indent, Colour, Capitals etc., you should be good to go...

[Demonskunk]

8 hours ago, Hangman said:

Hi @Demonskunk,

All you've done here is override the text style by adjusting the Left and First Line indents in the Paragraph panel... Doing so won't update the original text style which is why the values there still show as either zero or No Change...

If you select the respective text styles in the Text Styles Panel you can see right at the top of the panel the text style name has a '+' after its name. This is an indcator to show that the stylefor the selected text has been modified manually so differs from the original values set in the text style itself...

If you expand the Chevron to the left of the stlye name you can see all the additional characteristics added to that text style...

TOC 1: Section Header + C + Font: Exo2.0-Bold; Character outline: solid 2 pt; Hyperlink settings; Final Forms: Off; Initial Forms: Off; Isolated Forms: Off; Medial Forms: Off; All caps; Leading mode: % height; Align to baseline grid: Off; Maximum consecutive hyphens: 3; Use sum of space before and after; Leading: 90 %; Left indent: 0.521 in; First line indent: 0.521 in

Any change you want to make to the styling should ideally be made to the Text Style itself as that will impact all instances using that Text Style globally across your document. Any changes you make to selected text in the Paragraph and Character panels will just update those instances locally.

If you select the affected text then reapply the Text Style by clicking the 'Reapply Text Styles' icon at the top right of the Text Styles panel then edit the Text Style to apply any Indent, Colour, Capitals etc., you should be good to go...

 

Thank you! I clearly need to be more mindful with how I use my text styles from the beginning.