Comments on: Base a Paragraph Style on a Character Style

By: CelebrityMan

CelebrityMan — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:21:26 +0000

really nice article
I have just tried to make paragraph styles as you wrote - well done! All is ok
thx u!

By: Jesse

Jesse — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:36:18 +0000

Thanks for the interesting article. I was also looking to learn more about nesting styles and now I got a few pointers lol.

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:53:45 +0000

Sure, you can apply a second character style on top of the first! For example, the nested style could apply a specific font and size to the whole paragraph (as described in the post above), and then you could still apply an “all caps” character style on top of that.

However, you cannot manually apply two different character styles to some text. InDesign only remembers one character style applied to text.

By: prozacgrrl

prozacgrrl — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 03:13:15 +0000

Hey there David,

how about applying 2 separate character styles on top of each other? Does that work? Like a style for a heavier weight, and another for Small Caps (specially set to ALL CAPS but @ 70% of actual font size). It seems everytime I do it (IND CS3), it’s either one of the other. And please don’t tell me I have to craft separate styles of different combos… *cry*

By: Five

Five — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:00:52 +0000

I’m working right now with someone else’s template (using all character styles for some mad reason), and option one as described wouldn’t work. Here’s what I ended up doing:

1. Apply the character style to some text.
2. Select that text.
3. In the character style panel select “Break Link to Style”
4. Create a new paragraph style in the Paragraph Styles panel.

Then it worked like a charm.

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 19:28:24 +0000

Thanks, Colin! Sigh. Typed too quickly. Fixed now.

By: Colin Hartridge

Colin Hartridge — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 19:04:02 +0000

Thanks for the quick reply, David. However, I think you meant the heading up there to read “Base a Paragraph Style on a Character Style”! Thanx again.