InDesign nested styles question

[Eileen25522484u2qp]

Hi, I created a nested style using the "Forced Line Break" as the delimiter.  The nested style is a bold header and the style in the paragraph style is the Roman body copy. I would like to add a "space after" after the header, but can't figure out how to do that??

[kglad]

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[Eileen25522484u2qp]

Hi kglad,

What does your comment mean?  Did I post in the wrong place?

[SJRiegel]

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@Eileen25522484u2qp wrote:

Did I post in the wrong place?

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You posted in the fourm meant for questions about using the Adobe forums. kglad moved your question to the InDesign fourm, where more InDesign users will see it.

[SJRiegel]

Space After only works after a paragraph break -- it provides space after the end of the paragraph. You can't use it to add space after a forced line break. 

An alternate way that will get you the formatting you want: Separate paragraph styles for header and body; space-after setting in the header. Set up Body as Next Style in the Header Style.  The select both, and use Apply Header, then Next Style.

[Eileen25522484u2qp]

Thank you.  When I get to the last step, I don't have the same commands in the menu you screenshotted above.  Here's what I see:

 

[SJRiegel]

In order to see those options, you need to have set up the next style in the first one, and have both paragraphs selected. 

If you have only two styles with consistently one paragraph each, you can format the whole thing in one click if each style has the other set as Next Style

[Peter Spier]

While splitting this into separate paragraphs is really the best way to handle it, you could get your additiona space by adding another nested style through 1 line that increases the leading for that line.

For this to work, the base style needs to be set to the specifications for your body copy, then the first nested style would bold the heading, the second add the leading to the first line of body copy.

[Eileen25522484u2qp]

Thank you!

[Willi Adelberger]

Spaces after and before are NOT nested styles as they are not Character Style properties. You need to make changes in the Paragraph Style, but they are independent of nested styles.

[Eugene Tyson]

The problem here is the Forced Line Break basically keeps the same paragraph style for the two lines. It's a soft break in the text, not a carriage return.

So when you create your nested style, and you are applying the Roman character style.

To increase the space - you need to edit the Roman character style and increase the Leading.