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<p>I'm seeing this with 0.88.1</p>
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<p>Yes, the issue is still open.</p>

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<p>Unknown flag '' line 1, ignored may be a separate issue:</p>
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<p>Your style file doesn't give any flags for those columns.</p>

<p>For your use-case, just use the sample empty.style in the repo</p>

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