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Accommodating paragraphs with different leading

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Accommodating paragraphs with different leading

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- [Instructor] Another common challenge that arises when working with baseline grids is when you have paragraphs at different sizes running alongside each other. As is the case here with body text on the left, and caption text on the right. We've seen how we can align the text to the baseline grid, or how we can not align the text to the baseline grid. Well, there is a third way, and that third way is to align only the first line. If I come and put my cursor in this caption paragraph and deselect this option, you see that it is now aligned to the main grid which in this case is 13.5 points, and that leading value is disproportionately large for the size of the type. So instead, I need this option, Only Align First Line to the Grid. That means that the first baseline will be aligned to the baseline grid, thereafter, every subsequent line, will just do its own thing. But, we can take it further than that, because we can consider how the leading value of the caption relates to the…

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