Introduction

Arial Regular 12 pt, black.

That might be the default, when you open your favourite text editor, or CHILI publisher.

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• Paragraph Styles

• Character Styles

• Locally overruled settings

Hierarchy

These 3 types of styles, follow a hierarchy.

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1. Paragraph style

A basic setup would include you define a Paragraph Style. This style is applied for the text from start to the new-line character. “¶”

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You can apply the style by clicking somewhere in the paragraph, and choosing the Paragraph Style. It will be applied to the whole paragraph, regardless of your selection.

2. Character styles

For Character styles, you need to select a portion of text. (full words, partial words, several words & spaces, …)

3. Locally overruled setting

Next to applying pre-define styles (paragraph- or character style), you cal select a portion of the text, an locally overrule the applied styles.

Overruling or Overriding

Overruling (or overriding) a setting style means that you replace the current applied settings with the new.

This can be done with another (character) style, or by changing the settings that are available in the text ruler.

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How this ruler look, might differ from the settings you have applied

In the picture above, you see the default settings, and 2 defined styles.

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