First line of a paragraph

[Typically]

Is there a way to adjust the leading for just the first sentence of a paragraph? i just need to separate the heading from the body but an extra return is just to much. Or if anyone else has a different way of doing this i'm all ears =] it's been awhile since i've had a bigger project to do in INDY

[budafist]

I use space before and/or space after for these situations.

Either set up say, 2mm space after the heading, or 2mm space before body text.

You can set them up for your Header's (or body) paragraph styles too. Handy if you have a bunch of headers that all require the same kind of spacing.

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[hewligan]

Use space before/space after to seperate your text from headings - or for space between paragraphs.

You can set it for individual paragraphs, but it's better to set it in paragraph styles. I'll often have a slightly different paragraph style for the first paragraph of a block of text.

[GraphixNPrint]

isnt this just clicking the paragraph, go to your character palette and selecting the justification or leading your want? or, am I not understanding what you want to do?

[Typically]

i knew there it was something pretty simple =] you guys rock thanks for the quick replies!

[GraphixNPrint]

quick replies... buda and hewligan both jumped in at the same time as I ;)

[hewligan]

I'm having a freaky psychic simultinaity morning. Just after I posted that, I sent one of the other people who work here a link to a news article related to the research she's doing, and she came over to tell me that she was reading the article as my email arrived.

[budafist]

Hey Hewligan, I'm going to buy a lotto ticket this weekend. Using your enhanced supernatural abilities to foresee the future, what numbers should I play?

I had a dream that I won lotto last night. Heaps of other people did too though and I only got $7000. But I figure I better buy one anyway since I might get birthday luck this weekend.

[GraphixNPrint]

Birthday luck... I always forget to look at todays birthdays on here, so since its birthday weekend, here is a nice cake for Buda. :)

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[hewligan]

3, 11, 13, 14, 27, 33.

No guarantees are implied by my possible psychic powers. Nor do I even guarantee that I actually remember how many numbers there are in a line on a lotto ticket, since I never buy them...

[budafist]

Hey thanks mate!

I'm so stuffed though. At my work it's tradition to buy morning tea for everyone in the office when it is your birthday. So $70 later, we all have full bellies and there is plenty of food left! Trust me to order too much. I guess I estimated that everyone would eat as much as I might :D

That's fine though, everyone can have the food again for lunch! Better too much than not enough I say :)

[Mynock]

I've had those open all the time in Indy, but never used them. Will have to now.

[Broacher]

Is there a way to adjust the leading for just the first sentence of a paragraph? i just need to separate the heading from the body but an extra return is just to much. Or if anyone else has a different way of doing this i'm all ears =] it's been awhile since i've had a bigger project to do in INDY

Just a quality control note: grid.

Sure, you can adjust halfline and any increment thereof to a body paragraph-- and that's fine. Sometimes. In bigger projects-- newsletters, booklets, mags, books-- it almost always pays both in results and production, to spend the time to make and stick to a grid that includes a full set of heads, subs, body, caption that all fall on the same leading grid.

I only mention it because you said this was a bigger project, and in the LONG run, if all your type snaps within a text line grid, it's so much easier to balance many pages if you work this out ahead of time. It also kind of forces more consistency to the style.

[budafist]

I forgot to buy a lotto ticket. Bums.