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Paragraph styles

StoryLines provides a fixed set of paragraph styles per report style, each intended for use with a particular part of the report you view or export. A paragraph style defines the following characteristics:

Name The name of the style, such as SL Normal. Names are prefixed with SL (StoryLines) to avoid confusion with other similar styles that a word processor might support.
Description The description for each style is displayed in the report style editor dialog.
Next style Each paragraph style has a 'next style' which in a word processor, indicates the style that should be selected after the user has hit the return key. Currently this is not user-editable and is not visible from within StoryLines. However, you can see it in action in OpenOffice.org Writer or MS Word if you format an SL Cue, hit return, then type in the SL Dialogue style which has automatically been selected.
Alignment The text alignment of the paragraph. The possible values are Left justified, Right justified, Both sides justified, Centred.
Capitals If selected, the paragraph will be shown in capitals.
Italic If selected, the paragraph will be shown in italics.
Bold If selected, the paragraph will be shown in bold.
Underline If selected, the paragraph will be underlined.
Font face The font face name to use for the paragraph, such as Courier or Arial. Note that the faces available on a particular machine depend on the operating system and the software that has previously been installed. StoryLines does not provide any extra fonts itself.
Font size The size, in points, of the text in the paragraph.
Left indent The left indent for the paragraph, in millimeteres.
Right indent The right indent for the paragraph, in millimetres.

The follow paragraph styles are provided for each report. You cannot add or delete paragraph styles, but you can edit them.

SL Normal Style for normal text.
SL Title Style for the project title.
SL Author Style for the project author.
SL Address Style for the author's address (not currently used).
SL Scene Heading Style for scene headings.
SL Section Heading Style for section headings.
SL Heading 1 Style for arbitrary document headings, level 1 (largest).
SL Heading 2 Style for arbitrary document headings, level 2.
SL Heading 3 Style for arbitrary document headings, level 3 (smallest).
SL Cue Style for cues.
SL Dialogue Style for dialogue text.
SL Action Style for action text.
SL Parenthetical Style for parenthetical text.
SL Transition In Style for transition in text.
SL Transition Out Style for transition out text.
SL Header Style for headers. You can edit the actual text in a header using the Header and Footer Editor Dialog.
SL Footer Style for footers. You can edit the actual text in a footer using the Header and Footer Editor Dialog.