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QuarkXPress 8: A Suite Response

 

To create a grid and inherit settings from a predefined style sheet, do this:

Open the grid styles palette.

Figure 14

Click the fly-out menu and choose NEW.

 

In the edit grid style dialogue box, choose your settings for the grid or click LOAD SETTINGS if you wish to use attributes defined for a style sheet.

Figure 15

To link to a particular style sheet, click LINK TO PARAGRAPH STYLE SHEET [NAME OF STYLE SHEET].

Optionally click the DISPLAY SETTINGS tab and define colors for each of the four different grid line types.

Click OK.

 

In the display settings tab, there are four line types for which you may set the color, the style, and the width. Click the PREVIEW button to check your work as you go.

Figure 16 The display settings tab enables you to assign attributes to each of the four line styles.

To intelligently choose the display settings, you need to first understand the terminology. These lines are in reference to the true em height of a font size. Due to the glyphs of various typefaces, the actual top of the character may not sit at the top line. With a swash font such as Zapfino, the letters extend above this topline. The preview button will help you to accommodate anomalies. The centerline is the vertical center of the typeface, the baseline is the point where the text sits on the line, and the bottomline, again, for many typefaces, will indicate the point to where descenders will extend.

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