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Ole's tabular solution got me out of trouble, for which I'm eternally grateful. However, I do not see that Ventura's approach is that incorrect - it is very similar to that used by typesetting software for Monotype and Linotype machines.

As to "not some kludge that fools the program into doing something it wasn't meant to do (which is what the Ventura approach is)", only a programmer would make that kind of comment. I couldn't care less how much you fooled the program if it just gave me zero leading when I asked for it. If the only reason we haven't got zero leading is because it doesn't fit in with some puritanical thinking at Adobe, why have we got features like font stretching (which to my way of thinking is typographic heresy!)?

What is the problem with having a style that has zero leading? If the program can manage a negative baseline jump, surely it should be possible to do the same thing programmatically with leading? Or am I just being too simplistic?

Mike