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Can GREP reference position on a page?

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    • May 18, 2011 at 10:12 pm #59647
      Anonymous
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      Hi, One issue I come up against whilst laying out books to baseline grids is how to deal with grid alignments when headings have a size close to or larger than the leading and take up more than one line.

      In many cases I can sove this using line styles and different leading for different lines in conjunction with the leading as first baseline in a text box. However in some cases this does not work.. so the question is..

      Can I use a grep style to define custom leading based on position on the page.. ie can I apply custom leading to characters with a particular heading para style that apeear at the top of a text frame?

      thanks

    • May 19, 2011 at 1:36 am #59649
      Theunis De Jong
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      Short answer: No.

      GREP is not magic, it's a simple text pattern matching system. And it uses a pretty narrow definition of 'text' as well — it's not aware, for example, of InDesign's line endings inside a paragraph, and so stuff like “pages” or “text frames” are totally out of its scope.

      For something this complicated and specific you could look into TeX, it might be possible after a couple of years of intensive studying.

    • May 19, 2011 at 5:10 am #59651
      Anonymous
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      Might be faster to learn about setting up and not breaking grids?

      https://typophile.com/node/47265

    • May 19, 2011 at 2:22 pm #59654
      Anonymous
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      Thanks for the comments guys.. sounds like I'm going to have to do it manually

      I am a big fan of sticking strictly to the grid but this particular design was inherited and I am trying to tidy it up..

      In this case the leading is 14pt and I need 5 different sized headings between 24pt and 11pt (size of body text).. This means you innevitably end up with one heading at around 16-18pt which if it turns over needs leading at least equivalent too its size..

      Perhaps this kind of issue will be solved with object styles in forthcoming releases

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