Snap to Baseline request

[rogershuff]

This is something I find very useful in ID (sorry). When setting up paragraph styles, in Affinity Designer we can choose 'Snap to Baseline Grid) - useful up to a point. InDesign has an additional option wheich is 'Snap ... First Line only'. This is really useful if a subhead in a narrow column wraps around due to the length of the text string. It gives more control as the second (wrapped) line can be adjusted within the style to avoid kicking the following line of body text (which I have snapping to the grid) down too far, leaving an unsightly gap. Or am I missing something?

[Old Bruce]

6 hours ago, rogershuff said:

This is something I find very useful in ID (sorry). When setting up paragraph styles, in Affinity Designer we can choose 'Snap to Baseline Grid) - useful up to a point. InDesign has an additional option wheich is 'Snap ... First Line only'. This is really useful if a subhead in a narrow column wraps around due to the length of the text string. It gives more control as the second (wrapped) line can be adjusted within the style to avoid kicking the following line of body text (which I have snapping to the grid) down too far, leaving an unsightly gap. Or am I missing something?

I don't think that there is anything like that 'First line only' in Affinity Publisher but there is a workaround which will give you the result. select the second line in the subhead and adjust the baseline using the Character Studio.

It is a kludge at best and you may need to add another blank return to get what you want.

[Seneca]

 

8 hours ago, rogershuff said:

Or am I missing something?

I think you should be able to accomplish that with styles.

Create a style so that the first line snaps to the base line grid. Uncheck this option for other styles in your document. 

Edit: I've just realised that if a first line is part of a paragraph that spans across a number of lines my suggestion will not work at all.

[rogershuff]

Thanks. I can nearly do what I need with a combination of baseline offset and space before/after but your (Old Bruce) idea works. Cheers.