I’ve followed your guidance and put together a new template, The body text appears OK, but footnotes are a problem: if you use this control:
The body text, size and typeface are fixed, but you can’t change the size of the footnotes. I’m trying to figure out if this changes automatically and opened a separate thread on the footnote issue: Where is the Compile Footnote Formatting Control - #14 by pseingalt
With the previous control checked, you can still change sizes (24 pt is obviously an unwanted size) but not typeface.