Update Styles in RTF template seems incomplete

[Diëgo]

Hi,

This is my situation: I started out with a template based on (model document: basic template).  After I adapted the structure to suit my needs, I started fidling with the normal.rtf to get the company style in.  Amongst other changes, I created a list item (edit > list and overrides > create list item), I created an override for it and applied it to my heading styles.

And now here's the problem:  when I do 'File > Update styles', most of my styles get in right.  E.g. the color of my Heading1 becomes the color I've set in my normal.rtf, but the bold style was not imported (which I could get right by selecting 'Heading 1' once again in the template) and I didn't get any numbering at all.

If I look at my lists, the list I created in my normal.rtf has been imported into my template.
If I look at my overrides, the override I created in my normal.rtf is not there.
If I look at my heading numbering style, it just takes some override from a list with a strange name (all numbers).

Now I have 3 templates: one for my master document and two different ones for my model documents.  When combining my templates in generating one document, my section numbering gets all wrong (it restarts from '1' for every other template).

Does anyone have an idea how I can get round this?

Regards,

Diego

[Diëgo]

Oh, I forgot to mention: I'm using version 9.2 build 922, but I also had it in 9.1 before I upgraded.

Anyone?

Regards,

Diego

[skiwi]

I encourage you to report this as a bug.
There are a number of issues related to updating styles from normal.rtf that need to be fixed.

[Robert Sheridan]

Just so you don't feel alone I am having similar problems, though you have done better than me as I am not getting the font changes I make reflected back in Normal.rtf, the only way I can get the fonts consistent is to base every new template on one I created with the fonts I wonted and even then the list overrides do not persist.

[Graham_Moir]

Just so you don't feel alone I am having similar problems, though you have done better than me as I am not getting the font changes I make reflected back in Normal.rtf, the only way I can get the fonts consistent is to base every new template on one I created with the fonts I wonted and even then the list overrides do not persist.

Have you tried:
1) setting up your fonts, deleting all text from the document and then exporting the template to normal.rtf
2) making sure your exported normal.rtf is put in the right location, on Windows in the EA RTFTemplates folder under your profile?

[Robert Sheridan]

Tried doing that but copying it to the doc templates folder as I could not find a normal.rtf, will have a go at copying to there.  I have raised it as a bug with Sparx and apparently it is a known problem.

The only other work around I have found is to create a template which has all your fonts etc. defined, call it Normal and base all new templates on it (or manually edit each template as you create it, I have got pretty good at this as we have some complicated templates which I did not want to recreate).  The only gotcha I have found on this is that the list overrides may need to be reset.

[Graham_Moir]

It might not solve any problems, but this thread has some useful information in it

http://www.sparxsystems.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1311958205