Re: [latinreq] Grids? (baseline grids)

On 1/10/14 11:57 AM, "Scott Kellum" <scott@scottkellum.com<mailto:scott@scottkellum.com>> wrote:


Regarding more advanced page layouts like in magazines. Many some people on this thread might not care about them much but for me, I am in this group to bring that perspective. There is very little support available for these types of layouts in any digital medium but for my use cases multi-column layout with baseline grid alignment is important.

I'd love to get descriptions of some of these requirements, as I expect many apply to all sorts of material. Perhaps we can start modestly. Some questions I have:

1. When there is textual content outside the main flow (marginal notes, pull quotes, sidebars, etc.), it may have different line-spacing and text size than the body text. How are such elements aligned with the main text? Would the last line of the object align with a line of text in the main content? Does this change if there are backgrounds and borders on the secondary box?

2. A related question is how images (especially with captions) are positioned and aligned.

3. In multi-column text, are the last lines of each column generally expected to base-align? Is space above and below heads, extracts, etc. adjusted to make this happen?

I'm wary of discussing grids directly, as that seems to be more of a design tool used to achieve certain kinds of layouts. I see the goal of this document as describing the end result, not the tools or mechanisms used to create that end result.

Thanks,

Dave





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