I’m looking at the different paragraph styles in my document… Title, Heading 1, etc. But there’s no “Body” option so once I choose a heading, I can’t get back to body text without a laborious process.
There’s no clear way that I can see to edit the available options here. Am I missing something?
Yes there is no Body Style (as you might expect from word processing packages that support styles). “No Style” is what should be used everywhere except where you need a specific paragraph or character style.
Rather than repeat everything, take a look at Chapte 17 of the “Scrivener Manual” where all this explained.
@rms I hate that Scrivener does not have a fully developed style system. I come from the SGML world and there everything has to be marked up (including body text).
Long ago I defined my own equivalent of Body calling it Conventional Text and set it to be the default for the following paragraph to get around this serious (IMO) deficiency.
Harsh word. Yes, it’s a different world, Scrivener is. Hence section 17.1 entitled “Think Different”. As I’m sure you know, the power of Scrivener for formatting is in the Compilation part, not the editing part. Design Basis.
“No Style” is what should be used everywhere except where you need a specific paragraph or character style.
This would be helpful, except there is no “no style” option either.
Pardon me for asking a potentially stupid question, but where are the paragraph styles (Title, Heading 1, etc.) in iOS?
In trying to answer the OP’s question, I looked at a project in iOS; while I found bold, italic and alignment, I found nothing for Headings, etc.
(My previous post in this thread assumed it was a desktop issue, hence by deleting it when I noticed it was in the iOS section.)
When you are editing a text, any formatting presets, like Heading etc, are behind the Paint Brush icon on the top bar.
If you have synced a project with a desktop version, then they will be the same styles in the project: you apply them by selecting a paragraph, hitting the paint brush and choosing a style.
But, just as in the desktop versions, the default ‘No style’ paragraph is set elsewhere: click on the paintbrush and you’ll see a link to ‘Formatting Options’. Click that and choose either ‘Set Default Formatting’ to change the default to the current paragraph format, or ‘Use Default Formatting’ to reset the current paragraph format back to the default.
HTH
(Edited to change name of Formatting Options link – thanks @rms…)
Not a stupid question! Select some text, pick the Paintbrush icon at top, pick the “Style” tab. In iOS Scrivener the way to get “no style” is to change the selected text to “Use Default Formatting” under the “Formatting Options” link on the Styles tab dialog box.
These older posts may be useful:
Doing a lot of style assignments, esp. Heading Styles, not something I do a lot of as I rely on the structure of the document in the Binder and compile settings to do the heading formatting. Just how I do it.