InDesign nested styles question

The problem here is the Forced Line Break basically keeps the same paragraph style for the two lines. It's a soft break in the text, not a carriage return.

So when you create your nested style, and you are applying the Roman character style.

To increase the space - you need to edit the Roman character style and increase the Leading.

Spaces after and before are NOT nested styles as they are not Character Style properties. You need to make changes in the Paragraph Style, but they are independent of nested styles.

While splitting this into separate paragraphs is really the best way to handle it, you could get your additiona space by adding another nested style through 1 line that increases the leading for that line.

For this to work, the base style needs to be set to the specifications for your body copy, then the first nested style would bold the heading, the second add the leading to the first line of body copy.

Space After only works after a paragraph break -- it provides space after the end of the paragraph. You can't use it to add space after a forced line break. 

An alternate way that will get you the formatting you want: Separate paragraph styles for header and body; space-after setting in the header. Set up Body as Next Style in the Header Style.  The select both, and use Apply Header, then Next Style.

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