Applescript - new row topics don't respect document styles

[Ciaran P. A. Connelly]

Hi all, I'm very new to the whole Applescript game, but I managed to 
create my first (yay!) which adds a small "case brief" segment to the 
end of an outline (this is very useful for us law students).  Anyway, 
my default outline font is Times New Roman, but when the script creates 
new rows and the like, for some reason they are created in Helvetica.

What's the deal?

Is there a way to get script-created rows to obey the document defaults 
and/or level styles that are already part of a document (without 
manually copying those styles to each part of the outline text?

If not, I would really like to add it as a feature request.
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P.S. I tried doing a "set level of aRow to 1" (or 2 or whatever) to try 
to get this to work, and it didn't like the syntax....

Thanks for any help/suggestions...