Reply To: Tracking in Character Style

Yeah, in this book recommended by David, ‘Adobe InDesign CS4 Styles, How to Create Better, Faster Text and Layouts,’ which seems excellent by the way, the author mentions that, ‘tracking should never be a built-in attribute of a paragraph style.’ But for this project I’m using an Arabic font and applying tracking at 50, otherwise the font looks too tight. But I’m applying that to the whole document, it doesn’t make sense not to apply it to the paragraph style, and when I do, the GREP style works fine. I think I’m gonna have to break convention? What do you think?

Second question: is it not normal to apply such tracking? I do that with Latin fonts too, I mean I normally apply tracking at 50, it looks better I thought in long documents, easier on the eye, or am I being silly?

Thanks.