When you finish typing the word in the box, you have to click “add.” Then you click done when finished. Sounds like you were clicking “done” before you “added” it.

Andy–I’m in book publishing and have been for going on 25 years. We never use baseine grid. It maybe okay for novels and things like that, but if you have heads and extracts and poetry on different leading, you end up with uneven spacing. And if a head falls at the top of the page, it really screws things up.

I work with picas and points instead of mm (but it’s the same concept): Use specific space before and after. And you never want the text below a head to adjust.

I personally HATE the lock to baseline grid, and personally think it’s a lazy way of doing things. I can’t tell you the number of jobs I get from designers that use it. And I change the file. Each and every time.

So long as you use specific leading, specific spacing above and below for even lines, and set your baseline grid in your file preferences, there is no need for lock to baseline grid. An exception may be on a chapter opener where the number of lines varies due to the leading of the chapter title, and then it’s okay to use lock to baseline grid for the first paragraph.

Other than that–I never use it.

You are very welcome.

@Marie:

As you said–the replace part would be a pain if using wildcards. But if you searched for them individually, it could be done.

For example: Search for 3/8. You find the first one and format as you like it. Then copy. Then in your replace field you select copy from pastboard, formatted (or something like that). And then replace all.

Then repeat the process for the others.

I agree that the Proper Fractions script is great. I have the free (limited version), so I do the pastboard thing for searching and replacing.

I really think InDesign should have some sort of fraction ability. Quark had it way back in Quark 4 (it not earlier), by using a free plug-in called Type Tricks (which they later bought). While one can’t search and replace using it (that I know of as I haven’t used Quark in years), at least one had the ability to make a simple fraction if a real fraction was not available.

That’s tough to say. So far as kerning–you really only have 3 choices–metric, zero, and optical. My first thought is optical.

So far as justification–I’d probably make it tight–maybe 75/85/120 or something like that. But don’t forget that justification is the space between words and is separate from kerning.

But that’s just me.

To be honest–it’s all about what you think looks good and what someone thinks looks good.

I checked the comments for that script and came across this:

“You select tables using the text tool. Just select enough of the text that the tables reside in to highlight both tables, and it should work.”

Don’t know if that will work for you or not.

That is weird. Is it possible there is a very large left indent on the footnote rule in the document footnote options?

^^Yup. It would be liquid layout.