How to make the leading and trailing margins of a paragraph style exactly equal to the line spacing?

Question

When I queue long documents, all line spacing is the same.

This ensures that the bottom is always aligned.

If there is a blank line between paragraphs, you can also hit enter to realize the blank line. So the bottom is still flush.

But there is a time interval before and after, which can save a lot of things. But the question is: how to use the front and back spacing without affecting the bottom alignment?

This seems unscientific. I don't know how to calculate the conversion line spacing and paragraph fore-and-aft spacing?

For example, my line spacing is 16.26 points, the front spacing seems to be 5.8mm, and the back spacing is 5.8mm

But I don't know how to calculate it. I got it after trying.

rob day · Accepted Answer

Hi @dublove , in order to get baselines to consistently align across columns and text frames, the Space Above and Below has to be multiples of the text‘s Leading. Here all of the text has 16.25 leading applied, and the heads with Space Above or Below have amounts equal to the text leading. Any multiple would work, e.g. 32.5pt:

Dave Creamer of IDEAS · Answer

If you want to maintain bottom alignment all the time, you can't use both before & after paragraph spacing. Just use one set to the same leading amount-type in "16.26 pt" and InDesign will convert to mm.

I like to use space before for body text so I can collapse bullet/number lists correctly.

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