Re: New Styles should be/not be based Normal?

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Hello Norm,

I prefer, especially with a body text style, to start completely afresh.
There is no intrinsic advantage to adapting Word's "Body Text" [sic] style.

And as John says, that particular style would be based on "no style".

One advantage is that you can name it something other than the capitalized
"Body Text" style. In fact I use it so often that I use an abbreviation
only: bt. I therefore apply it by keying Command-Shift-s followed by bt
followed by the Return key (with the paragraph NOT selected -- just with the
insertion point in the paragraph).

For other styles the abbreviation follows the style name: for example,
"comment paragraph,cp" (note the absence of a space before the
abbreviation). That is invoked by keying Command-Shift-s followed by cp
followed by the Return key.

Let me know what confuses you on pages 89-101 of "Bend Word to Your Will"
and I'll be glad to elaborate -- it will be good feedback for me.

Cheers,

Clive Huggan
Canberra, Australia
(My time zone is 5-11 hours different from the Americas and Europe, so my
follow-on responses to those regions can be delayed)
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On 29/9/09 4:15 PM, in article epT49wMQKHA.3540@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Rob
Schneider" <rmschne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

You should use the *existing* style called "Body Text". You can
*customise* the properties (fonts, paragraph spacing, etc.) of "Body
Text".

It is not a *new* style, but the *existing* style *bent* to your will.

--rms

www.rmschneider.com





Norm wrote:
In article <C6E78114.21319%john@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
John McGhie <john@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The rule is "Never create what you can customise" :-)

Thanks much for all that info. Very helpful


So customise Body Text.

So when I'm finished do I have Body Text but customized or do I have a
new style based on Body Text?

I thought I read in Clive's "Bend..." not to base on another but maybe
that was just with Normal.

Appreciate the help.




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