Hi there. I have a couple of questions please regards formatting with the baseline grid to get consistency across the breadth of a design. I have set up my baseline grid to start at 0mm from the margin and occur every 5pt (half of 10pt basically). Works great. I have set my body copy to be 10pt with 10pt leading and snap to baseline every line. Also works well for my document. Good size and nice spacing. I have set my headings to 25pt with 25pt leading. Also seems ok. However, I could do with clarity on the following points if anyone can help please: If my baseline grid is set to 5pt and my heading font (for example) is set to 25pt. Should the font height not span 5 gridlines of space? a heading set to 25pts only seems to take up 3.5 leading lines. Aligning to baseline is great for setting the, erm, baseline. However, how do you also accommodate for the top of the characters? This question carries forward from the last question really, because it a font set to 25pt doesn't span 5x leading lines then it won't align to the text in another column that is, for example, set to 10pt with 10pt leading. In my mind, it should all lock into place but I must be missing something. Following on from the last question I have a heading at the top of my page that I want to both top align with the margin and also sit on the appropriate baseline - this title runs across two lines, also. I have it aligned with the baseline fine but it is not aligned with margin. It falls a little way short. But again, it should all lock together as far as I can see. The baseline starts at 0 from the margin. The occurs every 5pt. The heading is 25pt. The leading is 25pt. I suspect it is something to do with text frame margins but would like a definitive answer and best practice, please. Thanks, Al.
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