Update Character Style?

[hawk]

I'm not sure if this is a bug so I'm asking here first: isn't 'Update Character Style' supposed to propagate the current modified character style (which indicated by a + symbol appended to the name, right?) to all other users of that style? When I do it, what happens is that the style of the currently selected text is propagated to other users, then reset to the original character style. In effect the text styles appear to be swapped, which doesn't make any sense to me. At first I thought it was a bug with symbols, but it happens outside of symbols too. I've noticed sometimes a character style has somehow been selected as a paragraph style (not by me), even though that doesn't quite make sense (character styles don't even show up in the dropdown list for paragraph styles). But I removed all paragraph styles and it still happens.

Made a video showing it:

Is this a bug or what am I missing?

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[DWright]

Hi Hawk,

The text style is detecting the Small Caps option on the second Text and then applies to the first, the Small Cap option makes lower case characters appear as small capitals, If you edit the text style as shown in the screen shot and the style works correctly.

[hawk]

Hey DWright, thanks for replying to my post!

Thank you for shedding some more light on this. I've played around with text styles a bit more, but I'm still confused about why the text style "is detecting the Small Caps option on the second Text and then applies to the first". I don't see a reason for this. 'Update style' should propagate changes in one direction only, i.e. to the style definition and thus to other text that's using that style. 'Reapply text styles' should propagate the other way, right?

Another thing I've noticed, which is probably adding to the confusion, is that the style's capitals setting seems to always be reset to 'No change' whenever I click 'Update character style'. This seems inconsistent to me, since e.g. if I change the font and update style, the style then changes to that font, not 'no change'.

This is a bug, right? Or do you at least agree with me that this is confusing?

[Dave Harris]

There are bugs here. Several of them. Some of them are related to creating a character style from the selection when there is no paragraph style. In that case you get typography attributes which sort of work, but which are represented differently so they don't show in the Text Styles Editor. The Local formatting field wrongly includes formatting from the character style too, if there's no paragraph style. It's a mess. We'll fix it in a future update. (Should be the next beta on Mac; I'm not sure about Windows.)