Styling a text
Prepare the text
- Use Unicode fonts.
- Fill in the mandatory metadata and respect their order.
- Clean up unwanted character styles.
- Upload a .docx file
Plan menu
| Style | Comments |
| Title1, 2, 3 Break |
Lower case except for the first Letter. Headings follow each other hierarchically (i.e. do not use the style “Heading 3” when level 1 and 2 headings have not been used previously). No manual line breaks. |
Text menu
| Style | Comments |
| Normal | Any unremarkable body paragraphs. Italics, small caps, bold, superscript, underline will be retained. |
| Normal + bullets | Any bulleted list (numbered or not). |
| Not indented paragraph | Allows you not to number the paragraph concerned, it is used to mark the continuity with the paragraph that precedes. |
| Quote | Used for extracts of reported words, poems… A quotation corresponds to a source, in other words a poem must fit in one block, and can be structured with a manual line break between stanzas. |
| Illustration title | Mandatory. It is placed above the illustration or table, on a single line. |
| Reminder: Illustration (in JPG or PNG, 150 DPI, 7 million pixels maximum) and table (Word). One image or table per paragraph, without wrapping, without anchoring, styled in Normal A heavy or complex table can be integrated as an image. | |
| Illustration caption | Highly recommended. On a single paragraph with manual line breaks if needed. |
| Illustration credits | Mandatory. |
| Question / answer | Used to differentiate speakers in an interview. |
Paratext menu
| Style | Comments |
| Appendix | Do not keep the title “Appendix” Can have stylized headings as “Title 1”, “Title 2”, etc. |
| Bibliography | Do not retain the title “Bibliography”. May include headings styled as “Title 1”, “Title 2”, etc. Recommendations: in case of multiple references, repeat the author’s name in full (for readability and so that a link can be made with the corresponding DOI). To avoid the possible loss of italics, add an empty paragraph above the first reference, select it with all the references, then apply the Bibliography style and remove the empty paragraph. |
| Footnotes | Make sure that there is a dynamic link between the note calls and the footnotes; the Orphan Notes software can create it if needed. Only one paragraph for each note, manual line break if needed. No period between the number and the beginning of the note. Italics, small caps and superscripts are retained. |
Acknowledgements, dedication, epigraph, erratum, editor’s note and author’s note styles are also available.
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OpenEdition suggests that you cite this post as follows:
Gwenn Dossmann (December 20, 2021). Styling a text. OpenEdition Journals Support - Lodel 1. Retrieved December 3, 2024 from https://doi.org/10.58079/shdw
