Dependent font sizes
Allow for Character styles to have a font size relative to the underlying Paragraph style by adding and subtracting (or even multiplication and division). A Character style’s font size could be -2 pt or +2 pt for example. If the Paragraph style’s font size is 14 pt, the Character style’s fonts size would result in 12 pt or 16 pt. This is very practical for optical adjustment of different typefaces for example, keeping everything dynamic.
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Stephan
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Relative sizes and position would also be great for all type of lines appearing in styles (underline, Strikethrough, paragraph lines)
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Ali Cinki commented
I think it will be more useful creating the new style as a percentage of the base style.
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Vivek Tank
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Ignore space before/after between paragraphs with identical format this is the best solution I guess.
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Anonymous
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It better solution is - To ignore space before/after between paragraphs with identical format.
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Ashlee Jean
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The font-size property specifies the size, or height, of the font. Font-size affects not only the font to which it is applied, but is also used to compute the value of em, rem, and ex length units. There to help you, https://www.courseworkpoint.co.uk/
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Tobias Wantzen
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Brian, if you haven’t already, I think you should support this uservoice:
https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601021-adobe-indesign-feature-requests/suggestions/32113915-dynamic-baseline-related-unit-of-measurementThis should solve your and much more similar issues ...
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Brian Brunsting
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I like this idea but would expand it to include paragraph styles as well. We have a number of paragraph styles that are relative in size to our main text style. This would certainly reduce the number of character styles we use. We currently have a number of character styles we use for 3 differently sized text sections (text, extract, and notes) when needing to use Greek or Hebrew within English text.
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TvB
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Thank you very much Tobias, that’s a brilliant idea!
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Tobias Wantzen
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Theo, not exactly, what you want, but you could get a similar effect even today with all versions of InDesign by using proportional scaling (vertical and horizontal) of the text. If your body text is 14pt, you could give the character style (16 ÷ 14 =) 114,3% vertical and horizontal scaling to get 16pt.
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Wolf Kamm
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Another two:
• pseudo classes like first-child/last-child
• ignore space before/after between paragraphs with identical format (as in MS Word) -
Wolf Kamm
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Even better: as many CSS3 features as possible, e.g.
• base unit (pt, em, mm, px, …)
• line height, space before/after, indents etc. referring to fixed (mm, pt, …) or relative (base unit, em, %) measurements
• negative values for indents, space before/after, …
• border and background specs on char, para, page, and spread level
• …
You get the idea. :o)