One style with different leadings for paragraphs and line breaks

Soft returns/line breaks are almost always something to avoid. At most, they are a spot/local fix when there is no better or efficient solution.

They should absolutely not be used as part of a regular formatting flow, as you intend.

Use a combination of paragraph space and leading.

Paragraph space is applied when typing a return (keyboard enter).

Leading is applied when typing a line break (shift-return). Note: DON'T use auto leading; always type in an absolute amount.

@hendy_5450 

You can change Leading using CharStyle:

Then, you could use GREP / Line / Nested Styles - which might automate things.

But the main question is - how do you get your text?

Is it from some kind of a DataBase or typed by someone manually?

Hi @hendy_5450:

I would just avoid that workflow altogether and have multiple paragraph styles. 

I mean, you can certainly highlight each line and set the leading individually, but that is a problematic worklflow. It's going be much more of a headache (and time-consuming) than just setting up the paragraph styles from the beginning.

~Barb