find/change to create universal baseline shift to em dash

[saxtonstudio]

How do I give a new Baseline Shift setting to all the em-dashes within a document?

[jmlevy · Accepted solution]

Create a character style with the desired baseline shift amount and use a GREP style:

[saxtonstudio]

Forgive me for being dense on this. I did create a character style with the desired baseline shift....  but don't know how to implement that within the grep window.

[James Gifford—NitroPress · Accepted solution]

Pretty much as shown. In each Paragraph Style you want the fix applied, click on  GREP Style, then New GREP Style, and enter the Character Style name that fixes the shift, and the text code for em-dash, as shown.

All em-dashes in that Para style will have the specified Char style applied automatically.

[saxtonstudio]

Ohhhhhh! I was approaching it from the find/change dialogue box, instead of within the paragraph style grep options. Perfect! Thank you both.

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

It's a crazy powerful feature if you use it right. It does propagate through style hierarchies, so if you've set up your styles carefully, just applying it to (say) Body Text or whatever will work down the line in bullets, indent text, etc. You don't necessarily have to add it to each style, that is.

You will want a variant for each general style group, though — the shift for 11pt body text is probably off for larger header or title text, etc. But it's all quite manageable.

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

Ah, someone else who hates the way dashes sit too low within most fonts. 🙂