Paragraph styles

Rosie · Post by **Rosie** » 2005-01-05 07:00:45

I'm just experimenting with Nisus to see if I like it but straight away hit a formatting problem. After ploughing through the Help and the forum here, I realised somebody else probably knows the answer and I could save myself a lot of time.

When writing substantial chunks of text, I like having the beginning of a section of text NOT have any indent, though all subsequent paras within it should. Essentially, I suppose I have two sorts of paras, main ones and all the baby ones within it.

Is there an easy way of setting this up in Nisus Express or am I doomed to always having to wait until I'm in the second subpara and then click on the first one and apply a style that DOESN'T have an indent?

Hope I've explained that intelligibly.

cchapin · Post by **cchapin** » 2005-01-05 07:19:25

Hi, Rosie. Here's a possible solution.

If you have two different styles set up in your default template's style sheet (View > Style Sheet) -- one with a first-line indent and one without -- simply change the "Next Style" field of the unindented style to the name of the indented style.

If you start your document with the unindented style, it will automatically indent the subsequent paragraphs.

Does this help? --Craig

Rosie · Post by **Rosie** » 2005-01-05 07:51:10

Thanks. Sounds very sensible (and clearly I'm a nit for not working it out myself).

Very impressed to have had a reply so quickly.

Simon.

Rosie · Post by **Rosie** » 2005-01-06 02:20:20

Craig (or whoever),

Managed to implement Craig's solution eventually. Now realise that my IDEAL would be to tell Nisus that everytime I press carriage return TWICE I want to go back to the first, unindented style.

Will it do that, or is a shortcut for the unindented style going to be my only solution?

Thanks.

Simon.

Post by **charles** » 2005-01-06 08:55:14

Hi:

Probably the best thing would be to set a shortcut key. To do this, click on the box labeled "Shortcut" in the style definition and press the shortcut you want.

Alternatively, if you want the two styles to alternate: i.e.

Style 1
Style 2
Style 1
etc?

If so, then you can set the next style of Style 1 to be Style 2 (like you have already done) and then set the next style of Style 2 to be Style 1.

Cheers,
-Charles

cchapin · Post by **cchapin** » 2005-01-06 09:37:17

I can't think of a better way than a keyboard shortcut to do this.

If you care to, you can skip the second press of the return key by adding more spacing above the unindented paragraph style.

--Craig