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I am working in an indesign script and I would like to know what exactly is leading for a paragraph as described in the documentation Indesign Paragraph. Is that the height for each line in the paragraph?

Sundeep Pidugu
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    Leading is a very basic concept in typography. Google it and the wikipedia article about it is one of the first results you will see – slebetman Feb 25 '20 at 07:06
  • So is it `font-size + spacing between lines` in indesign? – Sundeep Pidugu Feb 25 '20 at 07:19
  • @slebetman: true for both your statements, but *not* true for Adobe InDesign. Then again, that same (generally very useful) search engine should have lead OP to the online help pages of Adobe InDesign in the first place. I see no need for Stack Overflow to contain a copy of everything that can be found *trivially*. – Jongware Feb 25 '20 at 13:10

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Yes, that is correct. Leading is the distance from one baseline to the next.

The leading of the top line can be anything because there's nothing above it to push it down.

Note: since fonts can vary in X-height and they allow space for descenders etc., they don't usually take up the full pixel dimension. In the following image, all the text is 100px and the height of the boxes surrounding the text is the same as the leading for each line.

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