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All text styles—even [Basic Paragraph]—are based on some other style, whether or not you specifi cally make a choice from the Based On menu. By default, new paragraph styles are based on [No Paragraph Style] and new character styles are based on [None].

FIGURE 2.31 The Style Settings box lists any deviations from the parent style attribute by attribute.

The Dangers of the Basic Paragraph Style

Every InDesign document contains a style called Basic Paragraph that can be modified but not deleted. On the Mac platform, that style is defined as Times Regular, 12 points, with automatic leading. While it’s possible to redefine that style with other formatting that you prefer, I strongly recom-mend against doing so. All InDesign users should beware of relying on Basic Paragraph in any way.

The inherent problem with Basic Paragraph is that every InDesign document includes it. However, there’s no guarantee that your document’s modified Basic Paragraph style matches either the out-of-the-box InDesign default or the Basic Paragraph style defined (or, perhaps, redefined) on someone else’s computer. If you apply Basic Paragraph, modify it to your liking, or base any styles in your document on it, your chances of encountering a style conflict between documents become quite high. When copying and pasting from document to document, the incoming text is reformatted to match the definition of the style in the destination document if any styles have the same name. Since Basic Paragraph exists in every InDesign document, your modified version of that style—and any incoming styles based on it—will change. It is, quite literally, an accident waiting to happen.

I recommend adhering to these two rules:

• Pretend Basic Paragraph isn’t even an option and always start with new, uniquely named styles of your own.

• When creating Paragraph Styles, be sure that [Basic Paragraph] is not selected from the Based On menu in the General options of the New Paragraph Style dialog. Instead, stick with InDesign’s default [No Paragraph Style] option unless you have specific paragraph styles from which you want to produce slight variations.

InDesign considers the “base” style to be whatever the current style is based on, even if that style is itself based on another style. Th e Reset to Base button in the General area of the Paragraph Style Options dialog removes all unique attributes from a style based on another style, but it only resets a style one level back. In other words, if a numbered list style is based on a bulleted list style, which in turn is based on a body copy style (FIGURES 2.32 and ^2.33), clicking Reset To Base in the numbered list’s style options reverts its appearance only as far back as the bulleted list style. It does not reset all the way back to the body copy style.

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FIGURE 2.32 The first paragraph with the drop cap is based on the body copy style in the second paragraph.

FIGURE 2.33 When the first paragraph is reset to the base style, it loses all unique formatting and looks identical to the body copy in the second paragraph.

However, clicking Reset To Base on the body copy style (the style on which the two list styles are based) will strip out all formatting on the body copy that doesn’t conform to [No Paragraph Style], and that formatting change will radi-ate out to the two list styles based on it (FIGURE 2.34).

FIGURE 2.34 When the body copy style is reset to base, it takes on the appearance of [No Paragraph Style]. All styles based on the body copy style—the intro paragraph, bulleted list, and numbered list—inherit that change.

WHEN GREP WAS ADDED to Find/Change in InDesign CS3, an unprec-edented level of text processing and manipulation became part of the application. In CS4, that power can now be built directly into a para-graph with GREP styles.

GREP (General Regular Expression Parser) is a means of describing text—or patterns and conditions within text—and it need not include one word or character of actual text. GREP’s origins are in computer programming, a world that most designers find cryptic and off-putting.

But GREP is not as formidable as it may initially seem, and once you understand its potential, any resistance you may have toward learning it will rapidly disappear.

GREP has historically been used for powerful search-and-replace opera-tions. A standard, text-only find/change query looks for exact text and re-places it with other exact text (find every instance of “dog” and replace it with “cat,” for example). A single GREP query, on the other hand, can search for every instance of “dog or cat or hamster or parakeet” and re-place them all with “pet” in one step. That’s an example of a conditional search. “Or” is a condition—this or that or another thing or something else. The ability to analyze text in this manner is called parsing.

CHAPTER 3

Automatic Styling