Probably an easy enough question, but I can’t find the answer anywhere. So I’ll ask it here.
How do I italicise part of the project title on the first page? As in:
Aria detta la Monica.
Same question for flow titles.
Not an easy question, actually. You’ll need to use a separate Project Info field for the italic word(s), then add the relevant tokens ( {@projectSubtitle@} for instance) into your master pages and/or default flow headings. At the point that you add the token to your heading/master pages, you’ll need to style the token itself as italic.
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Thanks! It works.
kim, which composition about La Monica are you referring to?
There must be hundreds, I know Marini and Böddecker so far…
Is there a way to italicise some words in the Project Info dialog? Like in special kind of quotations, such in the example I send.
If not, can we expect a token for it or something in future versions? Thanks!
No, the present solution is as Leo posted above.
No, there’s no way to do this currently. As to whether it’s expected or possible for future versions, I have no idea; I’m merely a user.
Just to note here, for users finding this page, that any part of a project title can now be italicised by enclosing that part within asterisks.
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Provided “Resolve Markdown formatting for text tokens” is enabled at the bottom of the Project Info dialog.
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Thanks. I hadn’t actually noticed that option. I can only assume that it’s ticked by default.
It’s ticked by default on new, post 5.1 documents. Earlier document will have it unchecked, because you might have used underline or asterisks for other things.
It doesn’t seem to work in the Dedication field, though. Is there a method for part-italicizing there?
Hi again - I misread the image - in fact it’s the same technique as I’ve used in the title field (i.e. enclose the required characters between asterisks), but - although this worked in my title field, I couldn’t get it to do so in the dedication field (the result simply showed the asterisks).
But I’ve now discovered that it does work if there are no line breaks in the dedication text. Following a workaround in another post, I input the text with the required line breaks in a Word document, and copied and pasted the result into the dedication field. The line breaks are indeed kept on the resulting Dorico page, but at the same time render the italicizing asterisks non-functional.
I eventually found a solution - have one language in the standard way, create another text box for the other language, italicize that and use the copyright token instead of the dedication token. Success.