Italics disappearing when I compile

[drmajorbob]

@Vincent_Vincent has it right. If you click in normal text when you define the style, and you include character attributes, the style will be normal and doesn’t allow italics, bold, underline, etc.

[Vincent_Vincent]

The issue is with the two “Body text” ones.

• BACKUP your project
• Create a new document.
• Add a bit of text

※

• Apply the “Body text” style to it

• select the text

• Go to

• Set your style like this :
  → “Save paragraph style”

• Repeat from ※ for the other “Body text NO INDENT” style

• Compile

[kewms]

@bbrucato

I know you asked about it before, but I had answered the question before you asked it. In the main post, it reads:

Under “section” “MAIN text formatting will be based on how text appears in the editor.”

Except that doesn’t answer the question. An assigned Style overrides the settings that the Compile command assigns to unstyled text.

[Vincent_Vincent]

Make sure you don’t compile with the compile format duplicate I had you create earlier.
Or, remove the styles you added to the list in the “Styles” pane first.

[Vincent_Vincent]

@drmajorbob

If you click in normal text when you define the style, and you include character attributes, the style will be normal and doesn’t allow italics, bold, underline, etc.

I wonder what happens if the selected text has a combination of different attributes ?

[bbrucato]

@Vincent_Vincent

I wonder what happens if the selected text has a combination of different attributes ?

This is how I was able to “redefine” the style and get it to compile correctly. I just needed to find text that had italics in it.

I’ll try the more elaborate method you described above when I have more time on my hands. Thanks for the help.

[bbrucato]

I don’t know why it worked once, but it won’t work again. I need to fix this problem. I would happily ditch my compile format entirely and create a new one with Default format, but that also won’t work. I’m nearly at a complete impasse. I have days before my publisher needs me to send in a properly formatted manuscript. Do I need to go through and remove all the text formatted with my “style”? Please someone tell me how I can output a text file that looks like what I have on the screen. Just step-by-step, without having to do all these experiments. This will be the last time I ever use this software, but I’m stuck in it until I’m done. This is such a ridiculously cumbersome POS app.

[kewms]

Please open a support ticket, here:

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It’s nearly impossible to figure out what might be happening without actually looking at the project.

[GoMach]

Please follow up here too after support helps you. I really would like to know what’s causing this in your case. Thanks.