I have set up a paragraph style for bullets. When I apply them to the series that starts with text (in this case, "Grade,"), they line up perfectly. When I apply the same style to the series that starts with a numeral (see images), the first line indents by exactly a point and a half, taking it out of alignment with the following bullet -- as you can see, it only happens with the first bullet. This implies an indent setting problem, but all my indents are the same for all lines (it's the same style, after all). I can manually outdent that line and get by, but I'd like to figure out why it's doing this. I've tried all the figure options under Open Type, within the paragraph style. My default is Tabular Lining. Switching to Oldstyle numerals actually outdents to where it belongs, but then the numeral style is incorrect. But because it aligned when I change the numeral style, I wondered if making the switch made me wonder if it had to do with tab settings. I checked the tab ruler on each line, and everything is identical. Also, I've checked all my indents (left, right, first line, etc.), and everything is in order. Does anyone have any ideas? I've included images here. NOTE: I've used pink boxes in the image to demonstrate the situation more clearly. I am sure this must just be me missing something obvious. But it is not obvious to me! 😞 Thanks much in advance for any ideas. ADDITIONAL INFO: As a further note, I just applied the style to a series (starting with a numeral) that did not yet have the tab character inserted. They aligned until I inserted the tab character, then the first line indented 1.5 pt. This does not happen when adding the tab character to the series beginning with text. This may imply something about the tabs, but I'm also wondering about the proportional numerals. When I manually outdent the first line, the numeral comes with it, so I had to set up a style just for the first line in the numeral bullet series to shove the "1st" back into line with "2nd." Don't know if that tells anyone anything, but there it is!
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