Daniel Gibert Posted June 25, 2019 Share Posted June 25, 2019 Please, add a visual separation between paragraph and character styles on the studio panel. Maybe a separation line, a blank bar, a blank space or a segmented scroll/window. The ¶ and a symbols are very subtle for a quick look at the panel. I think is easy to implement and is a silly but useful aid to identify styles. When you have a long list of styles is hard to detect where one end and another star while scrolling. Add this to the "Daniel asking silly things" bucket. Wosven and Jens Krebs 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jens Krebs Posted June 25, 2019 Share Posted June 25, 2019 Yes, yes, yes! Maybe just diffrent colours? I have just starting real life work with Publisher and already lost count on how often I accidentally applied (no paragraph style) instead of (no character style). Daniel Gibert 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garrettm30 Posted June 25, 2019 Share Posted June 25, 2019 I agree that some sort of optional separation would be an improvement. It may be that a line and a little space is all that is required. As something of a workaround for the current situation, you can create a dummy character style with the name of "____________________" (underscores, or hyphens alternatively), and it will go just below [No Style]. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted June 25, 2019 Share Posted June 25, 2019 Won't work if I have a Character style based on Page Numbers, that will go under Page Numbers' Paragraph Style unless I don't use Sort Hierarchical. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.0 | Affinity Photo 2.4.0 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.0 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garrettm30 Posted June 25, 2019 Share Posted June 25, 2019 I do sort hierarchical. I didn't know character styles could be based on paragraph styles. Interesting. I will have to think about how that might help me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wosven Posted June 25, 2019 Share Posted June 25, 2019 2 different panels would be easier, it's a pain to search for a character style while apllying paragraph style at the same moment: you scroll down until you find it, and can't remember which or where is the Paragraph or sub-paragraph style you need for the next frame… It's difficult without folder for grouping styles, but character and paragraph styles together doesn't help too. Daniel Gibert 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Gibert Posted June 25, 2019 Author Share Posted June 25, 2019 5 minutes ago, Wosven said: 2 different panels would be easier, it's a pain to search for a character style while apllying paragraph style at the same moment: you scroll down until you find it, and can't remember which or where is the Paragraph or sub-paragraph style you need for the next frame… It's difficult without folder for grouping styles, but character and paragraph styles together doesn't help too. I support this option. Two panels would be much better and much more friendly for complex documents with lot of styles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jens Krebs Posted June 25, 2019 Share Posted June 25, 2019 I'm on the fence aboutntwo panels -- that's how InDesign does it and it annoys me massively to constantly switch between the two. Having two panels or a horizontal divider would take away some of the flexibility (I really enjoy "stacking" my diffrent styles in groups). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garrettm30 Posted June 25, 2019 Share Posted June 25, 2019 The ability to manually sort the order might be of general help to several different approaches of style organisation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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