I suspect the best solution might be for Indesign to ensure the [No paragraph style] is a constant across all instances of Indesign on all systems, and that [Basic Paragraph Style] should be the “default” style if users want such a thing. That way serious uses can safely base their styles on [No paragraph style] with causing the problem mentioned in the discussion I link to.
In other words I think the root of this problem may be that Editing the font/style *with no document open* currently seems to edit [No paragraph style], but it should edit [Basic Paragraph Style]. I’m not 100% sure I’ve understood the under-the-hood situation, but that is my guess.
m1b
We had [a discussion related to this topic](https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/indesign-losing-style-settings-when-pasting-text-to-new-document-text-with-unidentified-overrides/m-p/14333610).
I suspect the best solution might be for Indesign to ensure the [No paragraph style] is a constant across all instances of Indesign on all systems, and that [Basic Paragraph Style] should be the “default” style if users want such a thing. That way serious uses can safely base their styles on [No paragraph style] with causing the problem mentioned in the discussion I link to.
In other words I think the root of this problem may be that Editing the font/style *with no document open* currently seems to edit [No paragraph style], but it should edit [Basic Paragraph Style]. I’m not 100% sure I’ve understood the under-the-hood situation, but that is my guess.