Invisible Object Style and Default Font Work-around

In looking for a work-around for the text tool style bug, I started playing
around with invisible objects (no line, no fill). The idea would be to type
into an invisible object to get the right text style, rather than using the
text tool. I found an inconsistency in the way that style is handled. The
invisible object style shows up in the Canvas:Selection panel in the
Inspector, but does not appear in the Canvas Styles section of the Shape
tool pull-down. Is this a bug or a feature?

In any case, you can¹t easily type into an invisible shape. You can¹t
double-click it, since there¹s nothing to click. If you select it by
dragging a box around it, you still can¹t type into it. If you select it by
tabbing through all the objects, you can type into it and get the desired
default font.

For the moment, the easiest work-around I can find is to set the font of
your first text object to your desired default. Then, after you make some
text in the now-fixed-default 12 pt Helvetica, select some other text that¹s
in the desired style and drag the font chit from the style tray at the
bottom of the window to the new text object.

- John Gersh