Tools for Information Literacy | Week ⑨ 
Some style creation and style modification

Create a new style

This is akin to creating a new style in a CSS stylesheet

Style formatting is akin to changing a style definition in a stylesheet;
Text formatting is akin to doing an inline style declaration on a particular object.

Our document is currently mostly in the Normal style.

We do not want to mess with the Normal style, but will first create a new style based on it.

We want to create a new style called Task03Content.

1. based on the Normal style
2. with a serif font (choose one of the ten mentioned at https://www.lifewire.com/classic-serif-fonts-print-projects-1077407)
3. 12 points
4. special first line indentation of .5 inches
5. auto spacing before and after
6. double line spacing

This will be a style created for use in this document.

You will note that we decided to use the Garamond typeface as the font of choice for this style. There are reasons.

Garamond is a beautiful typeface with an air of informality which looks good in a wide range of applications. It works particularly well in books and lengthy text settings. Microsoft Typography

Since the document is now formatted with most of the text in the Normal style, we need to find all the instances of the Normal style, so we can change them to the new style we just created.

Using the Styles sidebar, select all the instances of the Normal style so that you can modify the style. It will take a while as there are 1935 instances of this type of style in the document.

This exercise has allowed us to modify our Style Sheet (analogous to modifying a CSS style sheet) so that each time we use the Task03Content style, we will have the indentation we want and the correct spacing between paragraphs, as well as the desired typeface and size.

This will cause us, however, to need to pay attention because in some instances, we won't want a style based on Task03Content to have a first line indent or double spacing.

We want to create a second new style called Approvals

1. based on the Task03Content style so the new style inherits all of the properties of the Task03Content style and we can modify some of them for our style purposes
2. style for the following paragraph Task03Content
3. using the same 12 point serif font used for Task03Content
4. indententation from left 4 inches, but no special first line indentation

This will be a style created for use in this document.

We will do the same create style action here.

Modify an existing style (not text formatting)

Style formatting is akin to changing a style definition in a stylesheet;
Text formatting is akin to doing an inline style declaration on a particular object.

Here we want to modify the Title style

1. based on the Task03Content style so the modified style inherits all of the properties of the Task03Content style
   But we need to pay attention here because we have inherited all the properties of Task03Content, but some of the properties may need adjustment to be appropriate for the style we are modifying
2. using the same 12 point font you used for Task03Content
3. black color
4. center alignment
5. no special first line indentation
6. paragraph spacing before of 72 points

We are using these specifications because the UNC Graduate School Thesis and Dissertation Guide specificies their use. 72 points on this page places the title two inches below the top of the page.

Modify the Subtitle style

1. based on the Task03Content style so the modified style inherits all of the properties of the Task03Content style
2. using the same 12 point font you used for Task03Content
3. black color
4. center alignment
5. no special first line indentation
6. paragraph spacing before of 54 points
7. paragraph spacing after of 0 points
8. single line spacing

The spacing puts objects formatted in the subtitle style one inch below the prior object (in this case, the title).

Next, we want to modify the Quote style

1. based on the Task03Content style so the new style inherits all of the properties of the Task03Content style
2. with a 12 point sans-serif font
3. alignment left
4. no first line indentation
5. indent .5 before and after
6. auto spacing before and after
7. single line spacing

We are using these specifications because the UNC Graduate School Thesis and Dissertation Guide specificies their use. They want consistent indentation for quotes and since we use a .5 inch first line indentation, we use a .5 inch block indent for quotes.

We will choose to use Gill Sans MT as our font choice.

Gill Sans is a humanistic sans serif family that, while is considered by many to be quintessentially British in tone and concept, has been used in virtually every country and in nearly every application imaginable. Gill Sans has reached this level of near-ubiquity for one simple—and very good—reason: it is an exceptionally distinctive design with a potential range of use that is almost limitless. ... Gill Sans was designed by Eric Gill: a versatile, brilliant, and prolifically successful designer of the early part of the last century. One of the main reasons for the enduring success of his namesake design is that it is based on Roman character shapes and proportions, making it unlike virtually any other sans serif out there. Gill also worked his own warmth and humanity into his design, resulting in a typeface in which each weight retains a distinct personality of its own. MyFonts.com

Now, modify the Heading 2 style

1. use Gill Sans MT
2. color black
3. bold
4. center alignment
5. no first line indentation
6. paragraph spacing before of 72 points

We are using these specifications because the UNC Graduate School Thesis and Dissertation Guide specifies that the title of each chapter will be located two inches below the top edge of the page.

With this style adjustment, we will be able to start each chapter in the same manner.

Modify the Header style

1. use Gill Sans MT
2. color black
3. center alignment

We want the headers to be consistent in color and alignment. We have no headers yet, but this style will be applied when we do.

Modify the Bibliography style

1. so that it is based on Task03Content
2. with a hanging first line indentation
3. and single line spacing

There are segments already formatted in this style, and this change will display them with a hanging indent.

We are using these specifications because the UNC Graduate School Thesis and Dissertation Guide tells us to follow a style manual or professional journal that is used for formatting publications and citations in your discipline. We are assuming we will use the the APA style bibliography.