Highlight bar over text scrolls above the text too. Why?

[swimgirl]

Greetings:
In Quark, the highlight over the text stays within the text box, which makes sense.
But in InDesign, the highlight scrolls not only the text but an area above it too.
In other words, the highlight is taller than the text and stretches out of the frame.
Why, please, and can this be changed so that that the highlight will stay in the frame?

Thanks!

 

[eugenetyson]

Does this happen with all your fonts? Could be just a bastardised version of a font you may be using, resulting in an abnormal Cap Height or X-Height for the text, or even a decender that has been bastardised.

Fonts can be bastardised a number of ways, most common is using a fontographers program to convert from Mac to PC or vice versa.

There is no good reason why the text would be highlighted above the Cap Height of the text. Unless the Text was being forced outside of the text box. The only way to do this is to select a different Baseline option for the text.

You can do this by Ctrl-Click (Mac) or Right Click on the text box and select the second tab in> Baseline Options>First Baseline.

If you switch on the preview and go through the various settings you can see how it affects the text within the text box.

Other than that, only the text selected should be highlighted. Even with a really obscure leading, it should just select the text and highlight it.

 

[swimgirl]

this DOES happen to all my fonts and with with my colleagues' InDesign CS2 software as well. I don't believe the fonts are bastardized.
thanks. I tried everything you suggested and they seemed like good ideas, but no luck. I'll keep trying...

 

[jmgalvin]

It certainly sounds like you have a non standard baseline shift or leading applied to a text box. You might try selecting the text box and checking any character/paragraph formats applied to it.

You might also want to check Prefs/text and see if the "apply leading to entire paragraph" is checked. If so, try unchecking.

Using OSX 10.3.9 on a G4

 

[eugenetyson]

Apply leading to entire paragraph is not relevant here.

Applying the leading to the entire paragraph means that when you select a line of text by triple-clicking or highlighting it, that any changes in leading is applied to the paragraph regardless of what is selected or not.

With this option off, you can edit individual lines of text within a paragraph without adjusting the rest of the paragraphs leading.

Choose Edit > Preferences > Type (Windows)
or InDesign > Preferences > Type (Mac OS).

Select
Apply Leading To Entire Paragraph, and then click OK.

Note: When you use a character style to apply leading to text, the leading affects only the text to which the style is applied, not the entire paragraph, regardless of whether the Apply Leading To Entire Paragraph option is selected.