Timeline for InDesign Space Before and After not working for paragraph style
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| Apr 20, 2022 at 21:52 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | @KatieR. Very generally speaking, one text frame is enough for most pages. If the layout in your screenshot is representative of the basic template of the book (header + 2 lines full-width, then a section with a narrower left and broader right column, then a grey-background box, I would do it all in one frame, because then you can just have your recipes as continuous running text, threaded from page to page, and the height of the different ‘blocks’ will adjust automatically. You should be able to make this layout with one frame and eight paragraph styles. | |
| Apr 20, 2022 at 21:31 | comment | added | Scott | .. and you can have as many different Paragraph or Character styles in a single text frame as you want. If there's even a limit, I've never hit it. | |
| Apr 20, 2022 at 21:29 | vote | accept | Katie R. | ||
| Apr 20, 2022 at 21:22 | comment | added | Scott |
Hi Katie, yes :) The fewer text frames possible, the easier things generally get when editing. It's easy to just tweak spacing in a style and everything with that style then updates, as opposed to needing to move 160 different text frames the same distance across 160 pages.
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| Apr 20, 2022 at 21:20 | comment | added | Katie R. | I can see the lack of multiple lines being my issue. This book is 160+ pages and growing, so the paragraph styles are saving me time, and I wanted the before-and-after spacing to create uniform spaces between elements. I kept the elements separate because of the separate styles, but I realize now that I can put the separate paragraph styles in the same text box to use the spacing. Is that a solution you would recommend? | |
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| Apr 20, 2022 at 19:48 | history | answered | Scott | CC BY-SA 4.0 |