Adding / deleting styles in a compile format

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Will deleting styles from this list remove them from all my compile formats? (And, same question, I guess, will adding new ones only be available in this format?)

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Hi.
Yes, this styles list affects only the current compile format.

Removing a style from the list will have it (text of this style) compile as the style is configured in the project to compile.
Adding a style bypasses this, replaced with the formatting at the bottom, for any project you later compile using this compile format.

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Hi VV,

So do the boxes at the bottom mean ‘Include font size/family selected here’ or ‘Include font size/family as selected in the Editor style’ ?

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It gives you control over (these) what will rather be handled by the section layout.

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If you mean adding a style in the Editor, then surely it’s other way round? If I understand right, Amber’s just told that these Compiler styles overide Editor styles.

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No. I meant adding a style to the list. In the compile format.

These styles (once listed) don’t override the editor’s / project’s styles. They’re the same style. Only that styles in this list reformat at compile. It is the formatting that is overridden.
If a style is in the compile format’s styles list, and unused in the project, nothing happens.
[This is just semantics. As long as one understands that these “compile format’s styles” are entirely idle, other than waiting to catch a style with its name in the list going through the pipeline, and force a new formatting on it. One can see them as “other styles – triggered” or “same styles reformatted”, that part doesn’t really matter.]

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The trigger is the style’s name, if anyone wonders. If you modify the name in the list, even a tiny bit, the new formatting will no longer be applied, the operation will no longer work. – Nothing happens unless a style with the exact name as in the list goes through the pipeline.

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So what is adding a style in this list bypassing?

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[I should have used the word “overrides” instead of “bypasses”.]
[Answer to your above question] –> That specific style’s initial formatting. How it looks in the editor.

Styles override the section layout.
And this list overrides the styles’ original (per project) formatting.

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Ok. Let’s see if I can make it work. :slightly_smiling_face: