Hi there, I am making a hierarchical document where I have a Topic, a Topic Detail, and within the Topic Detail I may have bulleted lists or more small paragraphs of information. One problem I am having is trying to figure out how I can maintain the spacing between bulleted list items set to my standard leading, while adding whitespace above the bulleted list. I know I can select the first bulleted line (which indesign considers its own paragraph – I understand this) and set space above, but now I ruin the convnenience of having one paragraph style, now I have to have “first bullet item” and “the rest of the bullet items”. What is the best way to create visual whitespace above (or below) groups of paragraphs?
Example – I have a paragraph followed by a nested bulleted list, and if I adjust space above it will apply it to all the bulleted lines since they are each considered a separate paragraph. I have wondered if it isn’t possible to add bullets to soft-return lines?….that could be a workaround but I am not sure how to do that?
Hypothetical example of what I want to do with paragraph styles globally (and not have to select first line of each paragraph and apply a different style to it) (I am simulating wrapped text):
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Paragraph of text, bla bla bla bla bla
Uptatiam, sit lam esed quiatem aut arci
restibus volenimusam qui am harcita temqui
optatur audi at derum am ra nobis sundani.
* Bullet 1
* Bullet 2
* Bullet 3
* Bullet 4
* Bullet 5
* Bullet 6
What I get instead:
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Paragraph of text, bla bla bla bla bla
Uptatiam, sit lam esed quiatem aut arci
restibus volenimusam qui am harcita temqui
optatur audi at derum am ra nobis sundani.
* Bullet 1
* Bullet 2
* Bullet 3
* Bullet 4
* Bullet 5
* Bullet 6
.
