conflicting styles - how to force a plain style

[Derek Motonaga]

Hi Tim-

Have you thought about using the note fields for the plain text  
instead? That would eliminate the whole styling issue you're running  
into.

The quickest way to deal with the structure you're using is to apply  
the plain style by dragging it to the row and holding down the  
command key. The command key modifier will cause the style to  
override all other styles so just what's defined in the "plain" style  
show. However, it has to do this by applying the style  
characteristics to reverse the other styles which can leave you with  
a style mess if you use it too often.

The alternative is to create a named style for the headings and apply  
those to the rows so the default is the plain text style.

--
Derek M.
Support Ninja
The Omni Group


On Apr 26, 2007, at 6:49 AM, Tim Duke wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've got a doc that is mostly an outline like this - several levels  
> of headings and at the deepest (="youngest", or "childless", using  
> the parent/child metaphor) there is plain text.  The trick is: this  
> plain text can exist at most levels: ie:
>
> Heading 1
> 	SubHead 1
> 		SubSubHead 1
> 			plain text item 1
> 			plain text item 2
> 	SubHead 2
> 		plain text item 1
> 		plain text item 2
> Heading 2
> 	plain text item 1
>
> How do I most easily use styles to format this?  Currently I make  
> all level 1 to be Headings style, level 2 to be subheadings, level  
> three to be subsubheadings, and level 4 to be plain text.  Then I  
> manually force the youngest rows in Levels 1,2,3 to plain text.   
> This is fairly painful.  Then, using the named styles features of  
> OmniOutlinerPro, I thought I could define a style "plain", but this  
> isn't working for me at the moment.  The reason why is this:
>
> At the moment I've got
> 	Headings in big and bold and underlined
> 	Subheadings in italics and bold, not underlined
> 	SubSubheadings in italics, not underlined or bold
> 	and plain text in just plain, not bold, or italics, or anything.
>
> Now if I define a style "plain"  - which is listed in the Inspector  
> as a one-line "Font Family...", it seems to be over-ruled by the  
> italics and bold options of its parents.  In other words, applying  
> the style "plain" doesn't really force plain text.  I have to  
> manually adjust the rows in question by extinguishing each style  
> item.  I assume this happens because OmniOutliner thinks that these  
> styles can co-exist peacefully.
>
> Is there a better way to do what I want?
> Thanks,
>
> Tim
>
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