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Character style applies font size despite "No Change"


beast

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MacOS 10.13.6, AffPub 1.7.1

I create a text style that adds underline, with all else "No Change". When I apply it to part of a paragraph, the character size from the previous application is adopted, not the size called for by the paragraph style applied. (Easy to demonstrate.)

Would love to have "nested styles" from InDesign – makes stylish headings effortless.  I'd place this second priority after adding automation supporting footnotes.

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32 minutes ago, beast said:

(Easy to demonstrate.)

Would you mind to be so kind? Or post your .afpub? – Actually I did not get your point yet, the mentioned "size" and "previous application" are confusing me, since you want to add 'underlined' style only and work in AfPublisher only, – right?

One guess is that you try to assign a paragraph style to a part of a paragraph only. That does not work (as in ID). Instead you can use a character style to overwrite a property of the paragraph for a specific area within that paragraph only.

Related to your desire for "nested styles" you should post it in the according forums section (Feedback & Requests). Here in the Bug Reports it might go lost.

macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1

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No, I do not assign a paragraph style to part of one only. I assign a character style to part of a paragraph, already subject to a paragraph style.

The second time I apply that character style, it retains the font size of the paragraph in the first application.

See the example attached.

Test.afpub

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You have set the underlined style based on the main Section, which has a larger font size.
Switching in "Based on:" to the wanted Subsection will apply the wanted font size.

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macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1

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I need to pick up the font itself and left Font Size as No Change. It should then surely leave it unchanged, according to the context (inline text).  This was never a problem with InDesign.

Will remove Based On preference.

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36 minutes ago, beast said:

I need to pick up the font itself and left Font Size as No Change. It should then surely leave it unchanged, according to the context (inline text).  This was never a problem with InDesign.

Since your style was based on another style, "No change" is relative to the style that it was based on. This is also true in InDesign.

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5 hours ago, beast said:

Will remove Based On preference.

As garrettm30 mentioned you had defined your style "Section Number" to base on the style "Section" (14 p) – though you want it basing on "Subsection" (12 p) to make it not appear in a different size than "Subsection".

If you remove the 'Based On' preference for "Section Number" and set it to [No Style], then you define the style as flexible as possible, cause it only assigns 'underline' and has all other properties set to [No change]. Then you might consider to understand it not any more as a sub of style "Subsection" (which is used as sub of "Section") but simply as a general "underline" style and possibly name it "underline" to make it clear that you may use it for any other paragraph style, too, where you need 'underline'.

macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1

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