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Mike Mepham wrote: "The answer is, of course, the ability to use zero leading on any style (you just indent the style following the side head). However, if I ever mention such a thing I'm treated like some kind of typographic barbarian. This small feature would also provide a solution for bulleted and numbered pars."

This was the solution for Ventura--setting the leading of paragraphs in InDesign to 0 will not produce the same result.

re: "But I've only been doing this stuff for 35 years, so what the hell do I know? I gave up asking... Sorry, Ole."

Mike, we've been in this business for roughly the same period of time--it's not relevant to this discussion. (And, for that matter, no one listens to me, either.<g>)

I certainly did not intend to give you the impression that I was not taking your suggestions seriously. My point was simply that what is really needed is true side-by-side composition, not some kludge that fools the program into doing something it wasn't meant to do (which is what the Ventura approach is).

For whatever it's worth, I had the impression that you were relatively happy with what we'd come up with. Forgive me for not catching your subsequent reqests.

In any case, since we don't have a true side-by-side composition feature in InDesign, all we're left with are kludges and workarounds. Using tables is one such approach. You could also set just the heading in a single table cell, or you could create an inline frame to hold the heading (this is what I usually do).

I'll try to post that version of the script that I use as soon as I can.

Thanks,

Ole