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Hi Ian

Again, whether or not Avinandan actually used a template or a grid was irrelevant to my post. I was merely making a point about the structure of documents using line numbering.

And when I said that I didn't automatically assume that he was using a template, I simply meant that I didn't assume he was using an unchanged set of styles, master pages, reference pages, etc, etc - "as shipped with the product" as you put it. He may be a new FM user, but I don't assume from that that he is unaware of how to set styles and make changes and even save his own templates. After all, those are the first things one usually learns how to do on a new publishing package. Even when I was new to FM, I never used an unchanged document for anything. And I've still never used one of FM's true templates (book, business, reports, etc) - I always select "Blank paper".

But if Avinandan does not know how to set his own styles, then creating single-line paragraphs still does not help if anything other than a body style is used (and not even then if the body style has space above and below set not to a grid). So I would advise him to learn how to set styles rather than advise him to edit the text into single-line paragraphs.

And speaking as a copyeditor, I am horrified at the thought that someone might seek to create a document composed solely of single-line paragraphs for reasons of ease of layout. I would never regard this as an acceptable solution - apart from subordinating the text to the layout, it flies in the face of writing conventions, would produce a document that was a nightmare to read, and result in a much longer document. These are the reasons I originally doubted the seriousness of your suggestion.

Dominic