RE: MS Word: Spacing before, after, or both?

["Jens Reineking" <J -dot- Reineking -at- interkomelectronic -dot- de>]

Previous is easy: Create an alternative style with the desired spacing. Open STYLE_A. In Word as
well as in InDesign you can assign what style should be used for the next paragraph - select your
alternative style. This should be a feature included in a lot of word processors and DTP
applications.

Next is a bit more difficult: How should the application know what style you will be using next?
The only solution I can think of is scripting. With Javascript (InDesing) or VBA (InDesign, Word)
you could check for STYLE_A and then change the spacing of the previuos paragraph.

JensR

<zitiere wer="Nuckols, Kenneth M">

> A question I'd like to put out to the group related to Brian's is this:
> does anyone know of any funky ways to say "give me X room before and Y
> room after this paragraph style EXCEPT when the NEXT/PREVIOUS style used
> is STYLE_A"?  I'd be curious if Word, InDesign, FrameMaker, or any of
> the other popular page layout programs folks on this list use do that.
> I've never had cause to do that in InDesign so I haven't looked for the
> capability. It might be something already built in.



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