Indentation of Paragraphs after Headings

purcelljf · Post by **purcelljf** » Thu Oct 14, 2010 12:57 am

I have two different ebooks I am working on. For what it is worth, they both started from an ABBYY FineReader export.

Both documents are more or less styled similarly since I have imported in the ebook headings and normal styles and start editing the document.

I like the fact that paragraphs after headings don't have indentations while all others have an indentation. I assumed up to this point that I needed to create a separate style for paragraphs after headings and a different style for paragraphs not after headings. I generally don't bother since it takes additional time and it is not worth it to me.

However, one document I am working on has the first paragraph after headings NOT indented and it is using the same style of all the other paragraphs which ARE indented. I can't tell if there is a setting in my Heading style that is causing this or if something else is going on. So my question is, is there something I can do recreate the effect this on future documents without creating two different styles?

Thanks.

Post by **admin** » Thu Oct 14, 2010 9:09 am

When you format a paragraph in an Atlantis document with a paragraph style, this does not mean that this paragraph will always be formatted according to the formatting properties of this style. You can always apply any direct formatting to the paragraph. If a paragraph's style says that a paragraph should be intended, this does not mean that you need to apply a different style to this paragraph in order to have no indent for this paragraph. Just click a paragraph in your document whose formatting you want to change, then choose the "Format | Paragraph..." menu command of Atlantis, and choose any formatting you wish. This would change the formatting of the paragraph. But neither the associated paragraph style nor the other paragraphs associated with the same paragraph style would be affected by your change.

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