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Gabriel,

I have realized that I was overzealous in the things that are needed to do this. InDesign's autoleading when applied to inlines has a feature that is better than PageMaker's in one respect:

The autoleading percentage in PageMaker is applied to the whole height of the graphic, thereby forcing you to use 100% when working with inlines.

InDesign's autoleading works like this: The first 100% of the autoleading is based on that amount of the graphic that is above the baseline. The excess over 100% is applied based on the designated height of the text that is holding the graphic.

This is almost quite brilliant. It means that if you set the character that holds the inline to be 10/auto with auto set to 120%, InDesign sets the leading for the graphic to be the height of the graphic above the baseline plus 2 points (i.e., 20% of 10).

The only reason this falls short of brilliant is that the leading applies upwards from the baseline only.

However, what this means is that a single character style can be used for all the graphics, no matter their height. But a different character style (or local styling) is needed for at least the first character of the next line of text to clear space for that part of the graphic that extends below the baseline.

Dave