Notice that the inspector shows the changes to the underlying style as we make them. Let´s select a chapter title, change the font to Courier, and make it center aligned. The first is to format a selection with the desired values, and then update the underlying style to have the new values. That’s great! Except novel manuscripts are usually set in double spaced Courier. Notice that all 61 chapter titles now have the Heading 1 style and that these titles now appear in the project view. Add an entry for “chapter” and select the style to be “Heading 1,” and click OK. You’ll see a dialog containing the matching table. Choose Format > Style > Apply Styles by Matching Text. Storyist has a tool that can apply styles by matching text, so let´s use that. We could just search for the next chapter title, and apply the style again, but there is an easier way. Notice that the chapter title now has a different style than the rest of the body text.īut we still want to apply this style to the remaining 60 chapters. Let’s position the text in a chapter title and click on “Heading 1” in the Styles pane. When Storyist imports a plain text file, it assigns the default style sheet, which you can see in the Styles pane of the formatting inspector. Storyist keeps a list of styles, called a style sheet, for each text file. We could, but it’s much easier to use styles.Ī style is just a named collection of font and spacing information. We could, for example, use the format inspector to change the chapter title to be set in 12 point courier, and make it center aligned, and repeat the process for the other 60 chapters in this manuscript. We could start to format the manuscript by selecting the text and changing the font and alignment manually. Notice that the text is all set in the same format. Next, switch to Storyist, create a new project from the Blank template, and import PrideAndPrejudice.txt by dragging it to the project view. This file is just a plain text file containing the unformatted text for Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. If you’d like to follow along, you can download the sample files for this tutorial.įirst, let’s open PrideAndPrejudice.txt in TextEdit. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to import a plain text file and use the style tools in Storyist to turn it into a properly formatted manuscript.
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