Except that if you only have the mobile version, and no v3 projects laying around to duplicate from, you won’t have any styles! The software in that case reverts to a v1/2 compatible fallback that uses presets, which don’t mark the text with anything, they just change the formatting—hence you might lose formatting when compiling with certain setups.[1]
That is why I suggested using Preserve Formatting instead, because you cannot access any stock styles, make your own new ones, or even create presets (which kind of halts this idea, unless you don’t mind your epigraphs looking like block quotes).
Really, I think that fact in part just underscores how this is meant to be a companion to the desktop version. You can only use it, but it’s going to be a lot more limiting and one shouldn’t be expecting to be formatting actual documents with it much beyond dirt basics—at least not fancy stuff like epigraphs. It can, but it’s not very good at it. We never meant for it to be used that way, our target was proofing output only.
If it’s all you have, then taking the .docx file into some other tool is almost always going to be necessary. A bit ago I would have said check out Affinity Publisher on iPad, but with the latest news from their parent company, I don’t know if that’s still a good recommendation.
And thinking about it, we can maybe switch how we do things at this point, given neither of those versions have been for sale for a number of years now. We just need to find a way to do it that doesn’t make projects these older versions cannot open. ↩︎