A style is a group of formatting attributes to which you assign a name. This name becomes a new menu command. The first three Structure styles of each type and first four Emphasis styles have a function key automatically assigned to them.
Styles allow you to replace many formatting commands with one. For example, if you wanted certain parts of your text to be a combination of Trinity 14 pt, Bold, Italic, you could create an emphasis style with these attributes which could be applied with a single keystroke or menu command.
By means of styles the entire formatting description of a chapter or section - where to position its text and heading, how many columns to use, which font and sizes to use for the heading and text etc. - can all be applied with a single command.
Styles are created by selecting text (for an emphasis style) or selecting a structure, making the changes and saving the style with a new name using Save style changes in the Format menu or by clicking Adjust on the Style indicator.
Styles are changed by selecting text (for an emphasis style), or a structure, in the style you want to change, making the changes (unless they have already been made) and saving the style with its original name using Save style changes in the Format menu or by clicking Adjust on the Style indicator. Everything in the document that uses the style will be reformatted according to the new definition.
Where a style is applied to individual characters or words it is called an Emphasis style and is appended to the Text submenu. Emphasis Style definitions can consist of:
All documents have one emphasis style Plain (Ctrl-F5) which is used to remove any emphasis that may have been applied.
Text inherits its properties from its context. For example if a list was created inside a section that was in Homerton then the list will also be in Homerton. If the Section's font was subsequently changed then the List's font would also change.
If, in the above example, the List font was changed independently of the Section containing it, changes to the Section font would have no effect on the list. The inheritance would have been overridden.
Structure styles are appended as a submenu to the <Structure> styles command in the Format menu. The actual menu command changes to reflect the type of structure selected.
For example if a section is selected the command reads Section styles .
If a list is selected the command changes to List styles, and so on.
All structures have one default style that is present when a document is first created and has Ctrl-F9 allocated to it for use as a keyboard short-cut.
Additional style definitions can be created and added the first new style of each type will have Ctrl-F10 allocated to it and the next Ctrl-F11.
Document styles have the following properties in addition to the basic text attributes:
The document style has two components, Document heading and Document body. Selecting the document body allows you to control the formatting of all its paragraphs in one operation including text attributes, tabs and margins.
When first created a document has a style called Document Style ( Ctrl-F9) which is the default document style. It is set to 12 point Trinity.medium with no heading and an additional 2 points after paragraphs.
Page header and footer styles have the same properties as document styles. In addition they are used to determine the visibility of the header/footer. The following visibility options can be chosen:
When first created a document has a style called Header/Footer Style ( Ctrl-F9) which is the default style used by both the headers and footers. It is set to 12 point Trinity.medium.
Chapter styles are like document styles with the addition of the following properties.
When first created a document has a style called Chapter Style (Ctrl-F9 ) which is the default chapter style. Its heading is set to 14 point Trinity.bold, centred, and its body text specifications are inherited from the document style.
Section styles are like Chapter styles except they can only start immediately or on the next page and cannot be used to change the page number attribute.
When first created a document has a style called Section Style (Ctrl-F9 ) which is the default section style. Its heading is set to 14 point Trinity.bold and its body text specifications are inherited from the structure containing it.
In addition to the basic text attributes, paragraph styles can have:
Paragraph styles have no attributes when a document is first created although a default style is created called 'Paragraph Style' (Ctrl-F9 ).
The style 'Paragraph style' can't be changed although other paragraph styles can be created.
To change the paragraphs in a structure select its 'body'.
Lists can have the following style attribute in addition to those of a paragraph.
When first created a document has a style called List Style (Ctrl-F9 ) which is the default list style. Its bullet is set to '' Trinity.medium and its margins are set for a hanging paragraph. Its body text specifications are inherited from the structure containing it.
Tables can have the following style attributes in addition to those of a paragraph.
When first created a document has a style called Table Style ( Ctrl-F9) which is the default table style. Its body text specifications are inherited from the structure containing it.
Picture styles can control:
When first created a document has a style called Picture Style ( Ctrl-F9) which is the default picture style. It is set to 100% scale, no cropping, centre aligned.
In addition to the picture styles, figure styles control:
When first created a document has a style called Figure Style ( Ctrl-F9) which is the default figure style. It is set to 100% scale, no cropping, centre aligned with the caption underneath and centred. The caption's text style is inherited from whatever contains the figure.