Choosing the Global Font for compile

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Hi, fellow scriveners! I’m not sure if I’m doing something wrong or I run into a bug. This is the situation:

I have my editor settings using Sitka Text, size 12, spacing 1.0, pretty much the default.

I’m also using the Paperback 6x9 compile template, with Font: Determined by Section Layout. Then I noticed that some styles came out with a font I want to avoid, so I simply applied Font: Courier Prime, as global font just for testing purposes:

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Analysing the compiled file in Word I can confirm that some styles still not had the Courier Prime font applied, but Palatino Linotype or Times New Roman instead.

Is this the expected behaviour? :thinking:

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Yes, applying a Style command to text overrides essentially all of the Compile formatting options. (Redacted because I was mistaken.) You can change the Style in the Compile Format editor (there’s a Styles tab for this purpose.)

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Thanks for your prompt response, @kewms. However, this seems kind of contradictory to me with the following section of the manual:

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:thinking: :man_shrugging:

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In understand, however this meddling with the template format details kind of defeats the whole purpose of defining a global font. :thinking:

The thing is that I’m editing a book 500 pages long. Amazon “suggests” I replace Palatino with Amazon Endure to lower the production costs. :open_mouth:

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On testing it in the Mac version, you are correct. The font override affects all fonts, including Styles. So yes, failure to do that in the Windows version would be a bug. I’m sorry for the confusion.

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