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simtronica246
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February 27, 2020
Question

Text Box Alignment Challenge - for NL Language Text

  • February 27, 2020
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Hello - I have a flyer that I am republishing in multiple languages. The Dutch text is posing an alignment challenge. I have tried Break Character>>Paragraph Return and also attempted manually adjusting by hitting ENTER- however, this is not resolving the text alignment issue. Any tips to make it better?

 

Challenge - the screenshot below

 

 

 

 

 

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DBLjan
Legend
March 19, 2020

Here is another one, probably best practise, but fiddeling with the baseline grid (is not really my cup of tea.

 

4.) Set your body text paragraph to "allign to baselie grid: first line". Now go to InDs preferences and modify your baseline grid, to e.g. start at y=30. 

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    LaubenderCommunity Expert
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    March 19, 2020

    Hi Jan,

    this is excellent advice. But because the baseline grid you are showing is a document property I would do this with the baseline grid of a text frame. The frame could even have several columns where a headline is enforced to start at the next column.

     

    From my German InDesign text frame options showing the baseline grid of the text frame in "Gold".

    Start is 20 mm away from top to give room for the headlines that are not aligned with the grid:

     

     

    Paragraph formatting of the second headline where I define Start of Paragraph in Next Column:

     

     

    And of course all my text that comes after the headline and before the next one is aligned to the baseline grid:

     

    Regards,
    Uwe Laubender

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    DBLjan
    Legend
    March 19, 2020

    If the goal is to allign the body text after a one- or two-lines-headline, you have some options:

     

    1.) You could use the value of your line_spacing (7.5 pt) as space_after. Just type 7.5pt and InD transforms into your countrys units, …like 2,646 mm. Now you can use a pre-line break the following paragraph.


     

    2.) Or you could set the textbox-allignment to botton, if you have the same ammount of lines in body text. No add a linebreak after headlines with just one line.

     

    3.) Or you can work with two linked textboxes. Maybe you have to set the paragraph styles breaking to keep_togther.

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