From the course: InDesign: Typography Part 1
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Baseline shift - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign: Typography Part 1
Baseline shift
- [Voiceover] Baseline shift is an often misunderstood and often misused feature. I see it used by people to move lines or even whole paragraphs up relative to their baseline and that's not what it's intended for. Instead, baseline shift should be used to just move a single character or a couple of characters relative to the baseline of the other characters on that line. I'll start with this example by zooming in to the left portion of the page, Command Space Bar, click and drag. So the finished version is this one below where the brackets visually surround the word BASELINE. Now that doesn't happen in this typeface because it's a non-OpenType Pro typeface. In OpenType Pro typefaces, the position shifting may happen automatically. But if it doesn't, we have to do it manually. So I'll select that left bracket, come to my Baseline Shift and nudge it up. And I'm gonna go up by four points. I can also use a keyboard shortcut for my baseline shift. It's opt shift up arrow. And if I want to…
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