Line up text with baseline guide AND have space between paragraphs

[JaneNZ]

I have text boxes with multiple columns and I want to vertically align the
lines of text across columns, which I've done by aligning my body text style
to the baseline guides. But I also want a space between each paragraph that
is smaller than a whole line spacing (in Word it would be 12pt font with
space after paragraph = 6pt). I have tried adjusting my baseline guide
spacings and my style paragraph settings to every possible combination but I
can't seem to achieve this.

Settings currently are:
body text = TNR 10pt, line spacing 10pt
baseline guide = spacing = 13pt, offset = 0

This gives me the spacing I want and it's all nicely lined up, but I have no
extra space between paragraphs. I'm very close to resorting to blank
paragraphs of a different size, but would really rather not!

 

[Mary Sauer]

You say your line spacing is 10pt, where are you inputting this number? After
paragraph? Do you have *Align text to baseline guides* checked?

 

[JaneNZ]

My body text style has "between lines" set to 10pt in its paragraph ->
indents and spacing tab. And yes, I have align to baseline guides checked in
that style also. My space before and after are both 0. What I want is to be
able to put an after paragraph spacing of around 5pt, but of course with
align to baseline guides checked, I end up with either not enough space, or
it skipping a whole line and leaving me with too much space.

I thought the logical solution would be to have my baseline guide spacing
set to a smaller number - say 5pt - then try and get each line of text to use
up 2 of my baseline guide lines, then skip only one of the baseline guide
lines between paragraphs, but this doesn't work either - the results are
unpredictable and you lose your guarenteed alignment at the bottom of your
text box, which is what I really want.

 

[Mary Sauer]

Jane, I can't find the correct combination. Fractions of a point won't work. I
reckon the only recourse would be to use separate text boxes for each paragraph
to get the look you are trying to achieve.
You might do better if you do your text in Word. Word is a word processor and
has all the tools needed to get the result you are wanting. Publisher never has
claimed to be anymore than a DTP application.

 

[JaneNZ]

I appreciate you looking into it for me Mary. Thanks.