Best way to add space at top of page (e.g. chapter titles)
Posted: 2012-09-06 16:03:12
So, I want my chapter titles to be (for instance) three inches down from the top margin. Coming from the MS Word world, I'm used to just setting "page break before" and "space before = 3 inches" on my chapter-title styles. This doesn't work in NWP, because NWP ignores space before at the top of the page ("per typographic tradition", I think some other post on this forum said). That makes sense for a lot of uses but not for this one, for a style that's only ever going to appear at the top of a page. If anyone from Nisus is listening, it'd be awesome if that was configurable on a per-style basis.
Right now I'm reduced to adding a blank body text line at the top of each page, which I'm finding disproportionately irritating. Another forum suggested as a workaround using line spacing instead, but that only works if you can guarantee your title's not going to run over a single line, which I can't. Creating and formatting a section for each chapter seems way too complicated, especially when there's already sections for front matter and so on.
So what's the right NWP way to do this?
Right now I'm reduced to adding a blank body text line at the top of each page, which I'm finding disproportionately irritating. Another forum suggested as a workaround using line spacing instead, but that only works if you can guarantee your title's not going to run over a single line, which I can't. Creating and formatting a section for each chapter seems way too complicated, especially when there's already sections for front matter and so on.
So what's the right NWP way to do this?