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Halving your baseline grid increment

Halving your baseline grid increment - InDesign Tutorial

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Halving your baseline grid increment

As we've seen, the baseline grid increment takes precedence over your leading value and also the total amount of spacing assigned to any paragraph needs to be a multiple of your baseline grid increment. And for these reasons, you may find that when you're working with a larger grid increment that can be somewhat constraining. So, an option is to halve your grid increment and here's why I might want to do that. I have some bullet paragraphs here and I would like to include some space before and after this bullet list. Now, I really only want a half line of space before and a half line of space after the whole list. So I'll come to my paragraph styles. I have a 'bullet style' already set up. I'll edit this and then come to indents and spacing and I'll say space before, six points and my baseline grid increment is 12 and space after, six points. And then we have this extremely useful option space between paragraphs using the same style. I want this set to zero so that I don't get this…

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