Text formatting not properply applied and is not properly changeable in linked text boxes

[nielsh]

I ran into a program-breaking bug. I'm suprised no one else reported about this.

In the main text frame I applied proper styling: line spacing, paragraph spacing etc. The overflowing text, in a linked text box made using the proper link tool, the paragraph spacing is way larger. Alright, might be a styling inherited from the word document, no biggie, but: it doesn't respond to any paragraph spacing changes. Line spacing also does not respond. This all works fine in the first text box, but all text in linked text boxes/overflowing text does not respond to spacing settings. I have tried pasting text without styling, resetting Text Styles, but it all doesn't change the problem I am describing.

This is absolutely program-breaking as I can't properly format documents with long texts now. I attached pictures to show the difference in paragraph spacing between the original and the linked text box. All text has the same styling applied to it (Body) with identical line- and paragraph spacing settings. There's literally no difference between the text- and paragraph style settings whatsoever.

Note that in the linked text box (with the red annotation) the paragraph brake is not a manual line break, this really is a paragraph break with no extra special characters inserted whatsoever.

 

[nielsh]

When I start a clean document the problem is not there. When I copy the content of the "bugged" document however, the problem is also introduced to the new document. You can have a look at my bugged document here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/cc4yevtoiljhh6q/Tourneeboekje.afpub?dl=1

[nielsh]

I have found the culprit without a way to solve it. I turned on show baseline grid... and to my surprise only the linked text boxes (so all except the first one) show the blue lines of baseline grid. Baseline grid manager does not say it is activated, neither does switching it on and off again fix it. See screenshot.

[nielsh]

Solved: apparently the linked text boxes got "Align to baseline grid" applied to them by default? So why does the Baseline Grid Manager not show that, but only the paragraph panel?

[walt.farrell]

31 minutes ago, nielsh said:

Solved: apparently the linked text boxes got "Align to baseline grid" applied to them by default? So why does the Baseline Grid Manager not show that, but only the paragraph panel?

It can also be a Text Frame attribute, which you would see in the Text Frame panel.

The Baseline Grid Manager only shows you the document-wide setting.

[thomaso]

On 4/20/2022 at 12:41 PM, nielsh said:

You can have a look at my bugged document here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/cc4yevtoiljhh6q/Tourneeboekje.afpub?dl=1

It opens to me quite different than your initial screenshot:
5 mei + 6 mei paragraphs in 1 frame, and leading appears to be okay:

[Old Bruce]

On 4/20/2022 at 3:55 AM, nielsh said:

So why does the Baseline Grid Manager not show that, but only the paragraph panel?

First take into account that the Baseline Grid Manager is only for the Document's Spread/Page baseline. Now, consider if you have five text frames, yet only two have the Baseline turned on, what should the Baseline Grid Manager show? On or Off?