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Hello Dominic,
Template
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I assumed Avinandan used a template because I do not know how to open or create a Frame document without a template (body page, master pages, reference pages, para catalog, character catalog). If you "wouldn't automatically assume that he was (using a template)", I presume you know of a way to create a Frame document without a template.

The default portrait template offers body text 12pt on 14, with no spacing. All the other templates shipped with Frame, that I have checked, out use something like 12pt on 14, with spacing parameters of 12 above and 6 below. However the headings and other para formats of the default portrait and the other shipped templates have font size, inter line and spacing parameters inconsistent with a 14pt grid.

This means that whatever template he used (unless he built his own to produce a page layout consistent with a 14pt grid, which is unlikely since he states he is a new Frame user) only the first body para would be aligned with a grid. The exception being the first n body text paras in the default portrait template. At the first occurence of a new para (heading, second body text) the following text is no longer alligned with the grid.

Single line paras
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My seamingly outragious suggestion of using single line paras was a means to ensure that body text lines would always have consistent regular spacing. That is, the interline plus the upper and lower spacing would always be the same regardless of the body text para definition in whatever template Avinandan was using. I did note that this would create significant editing difficulties, but it was a patch that would have helped the line numbering scheme based on grids. I should have gone the whole 9 yds and added that all the other para definitions would have to conform to the basic body text interline grid or multiples thereof.

Grids
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If the body text alignment and other para format definitions are consistent with a defined grid size, then either Riley vanDykes' narrow Frame with an autonumber in it or my suggestion of a master page with line number set up to be consistent with the body text interline could have helped Avinandan.

Bottom line solution for Avinandan
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Avinandan needs to:
1. Create a template with all para formatting based on a single vertical grid or multiples thereof
2. Implement a grid numbering solution, say Riley's narrow frame with autonumbering or a master page solution that would need the page and line number to identify any given text on the document.

I trust this puts into context what clearly may have appeared to be strange suggestions.
Cheers
Ian