Override text and notes formatting is ignored for certain files.
My compile recipe is simple: Chapter Heading and Section Text.
Both have ‘Override text and notes formatting’ checked. All Chapters are in Folders; All text are in Files; Structure based is chosen for everything, which shows Chapters as chapter Heading and Files as Scene.
Assign Section Layout shows both assignments properly.
One file works, the rest pass through the formatting I use in the editor. This is not a function of text/chapter order: I’ve tested that.
HELP!
One Section Text works properly, all the rest are ignored.
Are you using a “body” style in the Editor? Assigned Styles will not be affected by the Section Layout formatting. (Which is one of the reasons why we don’t recommend using a style for “normal” text.)
Double-check that this option is enabled for both Chapter Headings and Section Text in your compile settings and ensure that there are no conflicting styles or settings in the individual files or folders
Got it. Resetting every word in all the files clears my problem.
Second Question: is there a way to change the ‘style’ of All of the text or do I have to do it one by one? [not that that is terrible because I’m doing a novel rewrite anyway…]
Interesting that there were styles everywhere! I am relieved that is the answer though; I gave this some thought last night and could think of nothing at all that would work the way you described it, especially with everything obviously double-checked and set up right.
As for more efficient ways to do this, I do hope you haven’t already finished, because there are several shortcuts that each have their pros and cons. The methods are listed in the user manual PDF, under §17.3.5, Removing Styles from Text. The yellow tip box is the most efficient, but the most scorched earth way of removing styles.
Another tip, and one I should probably put in the manual, is to note the selection commands in Edit ▸ Select. The “Select Similar Formatting” and “Select Style Range” can both be quite useful for rapid clean-up, conversion to styling and so on.
Not mentioned in the manual specifically is also the method of simply deleting the unwanted style from the project, which has the secondary effect of reverting all the text that was using it to “No Style” (although in this case, leaving its formatting intact). This is typically what I recommend when people go down the “Body” paragraph style route and then find that complicates everything. In that case the style itself is also useless, so we might as well fix all of the problems at once with one simple menu command.