Optical Margins ID4

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  • Amicus0

    I think there is a way to do this. (Haven't tried it for myself, but try it and let us now how it works.)

    In the Indents and Spacing section of the Paragraph Styles box you can choose to "Ignore Optical Margin" select this for the larger quote style. Measure the amount of indent you would need to hang the quotes and set up your paragraph indents and negative first line indents accordingly. Use the Optical margins for the 9pt text.

    You'll have to indent all other styles and move the text box left a little to compensate for the paragraph indent, but it'll work this way.

    Also, if you do use separate text boxes make sure you are using "Align to Grid > All lines" in the same section of the paragraph styles box to keep those baselines in order.

    Hope this made sense!

    • OK... just did a quick test and it seemed to work, although the Optical Margins feature still needs tweaking anyway.Amicus

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