Why is it that arabic characters shift the text down a few baselines.
The english body font is 11/17. The arabic characters are 17/17.
The baseline grid is set to 4.25 points which is a division of 17.
The first 2 images show the body text without the arabic character style applied (the pink bit)
The 3rd image shows what happends when the arabic character stlye is applied.
I have a few clients that want mixed Latin script and Arabic script set in two different fonts, so I wind up dealing with such issues on a regular basis. If you're setting this type manually, I don't know if my solution will work for you, but I like to use a GREP Style to apply stying to Arabic throughout my document. In the character style, instead of increasing the font size of Arabic text, I use horizontal and vertical scaling to increase the size of the Arabic glyphs without affecting the font size. In most cases, this avoids problems when dealing with text aligned to baseline grid (as well as a whole raft of other potential issues).
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