On 09/02/2013 09:56 AM, Ed Keith wrote: > I am importing documents from LibraOffice. I was trying to use styles to > reformat it, when I figured out that it did not matter how I set my paragraph > styles because all the text properties seem to be overridden. For now I have > set the text properties in the story editor by selecting all the text I want > to make a given style and setting the text properties to what I want that > style to be. This is working, but is is unsatisfactory, since changing the > styles has no effect, I need to reformat each bit of text individually as a > special case. > > Is there some way I can remove all the formatting from a frame then add back > in the few places where I want individual words or phrases to be bold or > italic, but if I change the font used in the paragraph style the change will > show up in the document? >
That last sentence is a bit complicated, but certainly you can select a frame, then change the style to whatever you want, either a Default style or one you have created. Look at Properties > Text tab > Style Settings. After that, in Edit Contents mode you can highlight text and then change some aspect of its style with a Character Style, or even just ? la carte choices from Properties > Text. I think maybe you're making a case for just using a plain text editor, then making/editing styles in Scribus. Greg
