The same bug in CS3 AND CS5?

Question

In InDesign CS3 I must have a rotation and shearing angle of 5° for a text box with a text of different sizes, mainly 7.5 pt. The first line is left-aligned with 1.1 mm indent, the second line is right-aligned (tab).
When I copy this textbox onto another side of the same document or to another document it results in text overflow. Until now the only way for me is to correct both angles to 0°, then copy to the other document and at last come back to 5°. Unfortunately sometimes it's necessary to copy 5 or perhaps 50 of these to another document.
Really crazy is that when I reduce the font size nothing happens (text overflow), but when I change to 8 pt there is no overflow.
I hoped that this would be the past with CS5, but it isn't. It's all the same. It looks like this:
Is there anyone with some ideas?
Uwe

Answer 1

Is this a custom made font or a stock font? In any case the problem should be broght to the attention of the foundry.
As far as what to so, if it's font-specific, there may not be a workaround. Rather than the right indent tab, perhaps using a hard return and a right-aligned paragraph style would work?  You could do that in two steps, I think, using Find/change and GREP. First look for the tab and replace with with a paragraph break and any symbol you wouln't normally have at  the start of a paragraph. Next look for ^<insert the symbol here>(.+) and repalce with $1 and set the change options to apply the new right-aligned style.