One of the main book lines I produce has a sidebar style that sometimes has two columns of text inside the sidebar, and sometimes only a single column, depending on my needs for balancing info on the spread and for compacting or fluffing page count.
In the dark days of CS4 when we hand-chiselled many things out of stone tablets with only our fingernails as tools, to make the header straddle the text I used two text frames, if the body was two columns. One with wrap for the header text, one for the two-column body
Now, in the neon-bright future of CS5, we can set paragraph styles to span columns, and I'm wondering: is there a good reason to not simply set my header style for this sidebar to “spans all” and use the same style for both single and dual-column sidebars? Has anyone run into any situations where “all == 1” causes InDesign (or a script/plugin) to go all hinky?
(Six months in, span and split columns is my #1 Actual Most Day-to-Day Useful Feature of InDesign CS5.)
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