Check your InDesign preferences (under “Advanced Type”).

It sounds like positioning is at 0 instead of the default 33.3 percent).

The way the “next style” works is that if you are typing a document. When it sees the hard return, it knows the next style apples.

In your case, adding a hard return in the middle (or anywhere) in that paragraph will just keep the same style sheet applied.

The only thing I can think of is to have your editors apply the correct style sheet to the new paragraph they created.

Again–the “next style” doesn’t work in an instance like yours.

It happens when the font doesn’t have the character that InDesign uses. To be honest, I’m not sure what the actual character is, as it appears as whatever you named your master page. In your case, it appear as the letter “A”. I name my master page for text as “TX” so TX would appear. I think in the Quark days, the # was the character that always appeared on the master page.

I’ve had it happen as well on running head variables, especially when using an expert font. The angle brackets appear pink as they don’t exist in the font.

I think you either have to live with the pink character on the master page or change the font.

It won’t hurt anything to leave it as it is.

I say to break convention. In a situation like yours, I see no reason not to build it into your paragraph style.

So far as your second questions–if it looks better tracked, do it. I had a book once where the font was really horrible and tight. We ended up tracking 10 in the paragraph styles.

While it’s not always “normal” to track paragraphs, there are always exceptions.

I’m glad it works, Mathilde. It was the only thing I could think of after experimenting. Good luck with the job.

You seem to be doing fine, HaKa2012. I hope you stick around a long time here at the forums.

You’re right–you want paragraph styles for every element, and I mean every element. And the same thing with character styles. It’s especially needed for when it goes to ePub/eBook (at least that’s what demanded of my company).

One hint I will pass along is kerning combinations. On some fonts (such as Adobe Garamond, Caslon, Minion, Electra) the space between a lower case f and the following letters F W V T h l b look like crap and almost crash. So does the letter f followed by ? and !.

I always search and replace on those and replace with optical kerning (as usually our text styles use metric).

^^Ahh–that answered my question. There is no need to apologize. :)

Then in the case you are talking about, I’d just leave everything as color.

It shouldn’t be an issue to print as black and white.

Maybe when it’s all finalized, you can make a PDF that is black & white and one that is color (and labeled accordingly).

PPD stands for postscript printer description. That is the postscript settings for your particular printer (either you printer in-house or the one you send it out to). They may have a preferred one.

Since you are sending this out to be printed in black and white, I’d contact the printing house that will be doing the printing and see what they recommend. And if’t not clear, we can try to help you with it.