paragraph style not applying equally

[wsg7562]

I have a situation where I created a paragraph style which works great for most of the text I put in. However, it completely screws up the leading in some text blocks while applying it correctly in others. Even if I copy some correctly formatted text from one block and paste it into the block that is screwed up, the pasted text comes in perfectly and the other text still stays screwed up even in the same paragraph. I have tried taking the original text  and pasting into Text Edit and remove any previously applied style and then saving the text as a plain text file. And even when I import that and reapply the paragraph style, the same thing happens. I have tried everything I know and nothing can get that text to look correct. Has anyone run into this problem? If so how did you fix it? I am baffled. 

Also, I forgot to mention that when I put the cursor in the correctly formatted text, the style in the context toolbar says "basic text". When I bring the cursor down to the incorrectly formatted text the context toolbar says "basic text +". How can that be in one paragraph? And where does the + come from when I have stripped all prior formatting out before placing it? I can't seem to clear that +.

I am attaching a screen shot of how this looks in one text block. Thetop 4 lines have the correct leading and the rest show how the leading gets compressed, even though both sections list the leading to be 13pt. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. 

[walt.farrell]

Can you supply a short sample .afpub  document that illustrates the problem? That would make analysis easier.

[wsg7562]

HI Walt. I am attaching a packaged file of just one page. I have included the used fonts, in case you need them. Hope this helps.

Thanks!

sample.zip

[joe_l]

The three lines a single paragraphs with each 2 points space before paragraph. Remove the hard line breaks, change the leading and you are done. You can show them with menu Text > Show Special Characters.

Edit: Another thing I found is that you use Leading Override from the Character panel, which is not helpful here.

Edited February 15, 2022 by joe_l
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[MikeTO]

The first three lines of that paragraph aren't actually part of that paragraph and are separate paragraphs on their own. Remove the carriage return at the end of each of those lines and your problem will be fixed. Cheers.

[wsg7562]

Darn, special character! Never thought to display those. Those hard line breaks came in when I imported and I never bothered to check.  Thanks one and all for your help!!