How do you handle the Space Before and Space After between paragraph syles?
For example, I have body text para style set up with space before “O” and space after set at 0.125. This works great for consecutive paragraphs of the same style. But then when I need a numbered list, image (or any other paragraph style that has a space before value), I'm faced with a dillemma. Let's say it is an image paragraph style that follows the body text style. The image para style has a space before value of 0.375. InDesign adds the 0.125 from the body text space after and the 0.375 from the image space before and I get a 0.5 inch space between them.
So what is your strategy for dealing with ID adding these spaces together? (FrameMaker would take the largest of the two, not add them together.)
I can only see two ways of dealing with this:
- Override either the body text or image paragraph to decrease this spacing each time a paragraph style changes. This seems time consuming.
- Have a duplicate body text (end) para style that has a zero space after value and apply that style to the last instance before switching to the image style. This strategy will certainly cause us to double our para styles in the list, which seems less than desireable.
I don't see the benefit of having space before and space after values if you have to work-around this issue for each paragraph style change. Is there another way?
Missy
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