Indesign Skills/Tricks/Tips

>>290736

what is the best approach to assigning margin and column values? also when creating guides should I keep I contain them to the margins or the entire page?

>>290802
http://www.thinkingwithtype.com/contents/grid/

>>290817
Appreciate the link, thanks a lot

>>290802

it probably varies slightly based on your unit of measurement, i work in mm so i am generally fairly mathematical about these things... if you're in the US and work in inches however... i imagine it would be less straight forward.

>>290802
Where I've worked, we've always kept our guides inside the margin. This is what we did for all content including flyers, catalogues, store signage etc

>>290827

i usually work with picas because thats how I learned it. I should of specified that, I realize now how my question could be vague without adding what unit of measure I wanted to use.

>>290830
yeah that seems to be the way the sources Ive been reading sem to say but I couldnt get a straight answer. I'm just going to keep working within the margins because it makes more sense to me design wise and doesn't seem wrong. thanks!

>>290736
cool tip didnt know

>>290817
>http://www.thinkingwithtype.com/contents/grid/
the grid chapter was infinitely better than Samara's entire bullshit of a book.

Is there a way to create a paragraph or character style that will automatically turn all bolded words in the paragraph to small caps?

Right now I have one character style for body text and another for bold SC body text, I just apply the latter style to the appropriate text. It would be much more convenient if it was automatic.

I can't seem to find complicated tutorials for indesign

please could you help me photoshop this?

>>>/sp/72838593

thank you

>>290736
this is good basic stuff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhBSUL8inp8

Can someone explain how to correctly add the current and next page number to a single (master) page? I know how to insert them, but the 'next page number' doesn't work, it just gives me the current page number. on a normal non-master page it's fine, but it's a long document and I'm sure as hell not copy pasting that shit every page.

I googled it but got some complicated answers that don't help me.

>>291519
Here some grid madness
http://www.bachgarde.com/gridsystem.html
https://whatype.wordpress.com/texts/the-complex-grid/

>>291720
Go up to your master pages in your you page palette, they are labeled A and B master by default respectively.

Apply the element there and then apply the master to all created pages.

Done.

>>290736
Not sure if this is the right place, but how the hell do you pirate InDesign? Specifically CC2015.

>>291869
Now that I've made sure this isn't the right place

>>290827
There's a lot of advantage mathematically in the base 12 system. It divides evenly by 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 and 12. Picas and points fit this base.

Base 10 only divides by 1, 5 and 10.