Modifying Styles

Using Author-it you'll be used to working with text and styles. If you've published to the online formats you'll be used to changing the look of the text by changing attributes in the style objects. When you publish and view your book you see the changes you made in the style object.

Author-it presentations work a little differently from the online outputs because you modify the styles in style sheets, not in the style objects. The attributes defined in the style sheets are used when you publish your presentation.

When you create the presentation topics in your library you'll apply styles to the text as normal, for example using body text, list bullet, special bold, etc. However, because of their intended use, the style attributes used in a slide show presentation are different from those used in a webpage. Instead of having to either change the attributes for style objects each time you want to publish a presentation or publish an HTML page, or having to create a new set of style objects specifically set up for the presentations, the style attributes used for the presentation are taken from pre-defined style sheets.

Three style sheets are used to define style attributes:

The title.css and slide.css also contain a body.slide style that defines attributes for the slide background image.

Style attributes are modified directly in the style sheets.

To Modify a Style:

1. Open the style sheet in Notepad or an other HTML editor.
2. Change the attributes for the style.
3. Save the changes.