Scott, that looks like a clever workaround. In fact, ID let's you go down to
.001pt for the leading, so much the better. This is also nice because it's
easy to change the size of the space: say from a full line space to a half
line space, by changing the paragraph style definition.
The only minute disadvantage is that if facing frames - one has a footnote
at the bottom, and one doesn't, they can never align perfectly (off by
.001pt) since you'll be needing that extra space. Which is completely
theoretical anyway, since when the press sheets are folded the inaccuracies
are orders-of-magnitude greater than that.
The only other practical problem here is if someone else needs to work on
the file. It'll take them a while to figure out what's going on.
Still, I think I will try this for the next book. Put it to a real-world
test. Nevertheless, it would be more elegant to have a special character
available, which I'd like. In fact, there should be another special
character which does the opposite as well: Only makes a space if it falls at
the top of a frame. That would be useful for dropping subheads slightly if
they fall at the top of a frame, so that the next line of body text will
fall on a baseline grid.
Thanks,
Ariel
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