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• • July 18, 2010 at 9:08 am #56389
    Anonymous

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    David — I very much enjoyed your 21 and a half typography tips 'n' tricks webinar. Regarding the baseline grid you set up for the first line of chapter text after the heading — can one have more than one baseline grid in the same document do you think? I know, it's not difficult to place a guide line where one would like the first line of text in a chapter to appear and just carry on from there — I just wondered.

    Thank you for the webinar.

  • July 18, 2010 at 1:17 pm #56391
    Theunis De Jong

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    If you change the “Relative to” method in Preferences, Grids, from “Top of Page” to “Top Margin”, you can change the margins on your master page and have the first baseline go down with it. Using this method, you cannot change to another start at distance and increment — these are global settings.

    However, you can also set specific baseline settings for every single text frame in your document: in “Text Frame Options” select the Baseline Options, then enable “Custom Baseline Grid”. You can also save this settings in an Object Style (in the Text Frame Baseline Options section) , so all it would take is selecting your chapter start frame and apply your new object style.

  • July 19, 2010 at 7:17 am #56393
    Anonymous

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    Mmmm, as I thought. Never mind. Many thanks (again) for your reply.

  • July 20, 2010 at 2:37 pm #56410
    David Blatner

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    Yes, the method I used was to set the document baseline grid, but you could just as easily do this on a text frame basis, as Theun pointed out. That is probably more useful, actually. Then you can set that up in an object style and apply it to the text frame on the first page of the chapter!

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