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FR:Automatic Adjustment of Paragraph Margins and Leading Based on Context

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
October 7, 2024
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Would like to add: Automatically set the value of paragraph leading according to different situations.

For example, A and B paragraph styles.
By default, B has paragraph margins set. But there are some cases where it doesn't need paragraph breaks.
For example, when there is A paragraph style in front of it, because A itself has paragraph spacing, the two together will be spaced very far apart.
The way I'm dealing with it now: create a new ‘B-none’ with no paragraph leading.　But it's a lot of work and trouble.

If you can add the option to set when B meets a certain style in front of the paragraph before the distance can be agreed upon, such as 0 or other good.

Thank you very much.

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Dave Creamer of IDEAS

Community Expert

Is this a long document? If so, you could look at structured FrameMaker that can use contextual formatting. Does some things better than InDesign--and InDesign does some things better than Frame.

David Creamer: Community Expert (ACI and ACE 1995-2023)

dubloveAuthor

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Just a suggestion, just hoping Adobe will see it and optimise it for improvement.
InDesign is already perfect.
Getting old and not enough energy to learn other software.

Abhishek Rao

Community Manager

Hi @dublove,

Thank you for sharing your thoughts and I understand how important this functionality is to your workflow. I apologize for its unavailability at the moment. I encourage you to submit this as a feature request on our UserVoice page [here](https://adobe.ly/3XV7c3C). This will help us prioritize the request, and you'll be notified if there are any updates.

If you have any further questions or need more assistance, please feel free to reach out. We're always here to help.

Thanks,
Abhishek Rao

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Eugene Tyson

Community Expert

For this I tend to use Apply Next Style - it's not automatic or anything but speeds up the selection of paragraph styles

https://creativepro.com/where-is-apply-__-then-next-style/

dubloveAuthor

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The lower same style is not flexible enough.
Because A is not always followed by B. It's just that sometimes A and B go together.

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Eugene Tyson

Community Expert

So these connection rules are flexible - which makes me think it's highly likely to be automated - it's only for when A meets B - and that's great for your case, but could be more complex in other cases.

I think the Find/Change portion of InDesign could be updated.

At the moment you can only Find 1 type of paragraph style.

If you could Find 2 or more styles then that would be an easy way to do it.

Find
ParaStyle B
Lookbehind for ParaStyle A

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That makes a lot of sense as a request.

My workaround is similar to yours (create extra styles to accommodate the different spacings).

I don't find that it's so much work or trouble, though, because I'm using a script I wrote for exactly this purpose: https://www.id-extras.com/products/change-consecutive-paragraphs/

I think there are also some free scripts that do the basics of replacing one style with another depending on what comes before/after, perhaps without all the bells and whistles of my not-free one (e.g. http://kasyan.ho.ua/indesign/styles/paragraph_style_changer.html and others).

Willi Adelberger

Community Expert

Why do space before and after not serve you?

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