The DITA2Go-supplied format templates include basic default properties for character and paragraph formats. If your project configuration file references the chain of format templates, these properties will be in effect for any text formats you define. You can change the defaults by including your own settings in the corresponding local_ format configuration file or in your own format configuration file, referenced via [Templates]Formats; see.§7.2 Working with format configuration files.
To specify default properties for paragraph formats (for example):
[Para]
help = Default paragraph format for a block element
category = ParagraphFormats Configuration Manager
text-format category
display = block This is a block
format.
inline = Char Use the character
properties of format Char.
line height = 11pt Make leading 11
points.
Paragraph format Para is the default format for any block element to which you have not assigned a format name.
DITA2Go applies each of the values specified for Para, and also for default character format Char (because Para references Char via property inline), to any paragraph format for which you do not specify a different value for the property in question.
The property values listed in [Char] and [Para] for inline and block properties, respectively, are the default values. Unless you want to specify a different value for a particular property, you do not have to include any of these property settings for a text format.