IndCS3 Trademark Symbol baseline shift

Question

Hi
I have inserted "Alt2" the TM symbol into my headings which use font size 48, I have manually changed the TM to font size 14 and forced the baseline shift for the TM to 14, so that it sits level with lowercase text in the heading.
I have created a para style for my headings but because of the different font sizes and baseline shift within the heading, it always shows as an applied stle with an override. So if I alt click on the style it then forces the TM back to font 48 etc.
I dont want to manually reconfigure this for every heading.
Is there a way of setting multiple font sizes and baseline shift within a character/para style or is there something better suited?
thanks
Sue

Answer 1

It's not clear to me whether you're using a trademark glyph (what you
get with ALT 2) or just a capital T and M formatted to look like a
trademark glyph. All by itself, the TM glyph sits off the baseline and
smaller (like a superscript), so I don't understand how baseline
shifting it 14 pts is going to put it level with text. Baseline shifting
it up is just going to move it even higher off the baseline. Maybe
you're baseline shifting it *down* 14 pts? Maybe you're saying 14 pts
brings the TM baseline up to the top of the heading x height?
That said, if you're using the trademark glyph, but you want it to be
formatted differently than the typeface gives it to you, you should make
a character style that gives you your preferred formatting and apply it
to each one of these. Then when you ALT-apply the paragraph style or
right-click Clear Overrides, you won't lose the local formatting. This
is the basic relationship of character styles to paragraph styles.
Paragraph styles are for formatting the paragraph. Character styles are
for formatting individual characters differently from the rest of the
paragraph.
Then you can search for the TM glyph and replace it with the character
style you made. If they show up in different places but you only want to
apply it to the ones in headings, include the heading paragraph style in
the search.
Kenneth Benson
Pegasus Type, Inc.
www.pegtype.com