Optical margins—how to set as default

Question

I would like to have Optical Margins as a default, if this is possible. I typeset trade books, and there are several standard elements besides body type (of course), figure captions, pull quotes, among others. I want to avoid having to scroll through the document setting Optical Margins for the extra elements.

Any thoughts?

rob day · Accepted Answer

Thanks for your help. This worked in a new document but not in a document
that I'd copied from another, emptied out, saved as idml, then saved as
indd. Oh well, I'll play around with it and see if I can get it to work in
a new text frame in an existing document.

Cheers,
Susan--

but not in a document that I'd copied from

You copied the story OMA setting over from the existing document. You can turn OMA on for all stories in a document via a script. This will set all the stories’ Optical Margin Size to 12pt:

var os = 12;
var s = app.documents.item(0).stories;
var i = s.length; while (i--) s[i].storyPreferences.opticalMarginAlignment = true, s[i].storyPreferences.opticalMarginSize = os;

rob day · Answer

You can set the default for new text frames by closing all documents, setting the desired Story Options and restaring ID. Story Options can also be set in an Object Style or ignored in a Paragraph Style’s Indents and Spacing.

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