InDesign for QuarkXPress Users [Electronic resources] نسخه متنی

Baseline Grid

Like QuarkXPress, the baseline grid is used to align the baseline of text across multiple columns on a page or spread. Alignment is a paragraph attribute, and you can force text to align to the baseline grid in by clicking the Lock to Baseline Grid button in the Paragraph palette.

The starting point of the baseline grid, how frequently it is repeated and at what view percentage it become visible or hidden are defined by settings in the Grids Preferences dialog box (Chapter 34).

You can make the baseline grid visible or invisible by selecting Show/Hide Baseline Grid from the View menu (or press Command-Option-'/Ctrl-Alt-'). The Show/Hide Baseline Grid command is also available in the context-sensitive menu when clicking an empty area of the document.

Here's a hidden trick: InDesign lets you lock the

first line of a paragraph to the baseline grid, leaving alone the rest of the paragraph's spacing. To do this, select Keyboard Shortcuts from the Edit menu, choose Text and Tables from the Product Area popup menu, then search through the list of commands until you see "Only Align First Line to Grid." Select this feature and assign a keyboard shortcut to it (see Chapter 6). Now, select a paragraph, turn on Lock to Baseline Grid in the Paragraph palette, and then press the keyboard shortcut you defined. Cool, huh?