With some combinations of paragraph font sizes, the spacing between paragraphs is much too large. I want to squeeze them together by giving the second paragraph a negative margin/spacing on top (or the first paragraph a negative margin/spacing on bottom).
In CSS, I could achieve the effect with a rule like below.
p.squeezeUpward
{
margin-top: -6pt;
}
The setting that seems like it should work is Paragraph –> Indents and Spacing –> Spacing Before. If I could set this to a negative number, like -6 pt, I think it would achieve what I want. But negative numbers aren't allowed.
Note I'm not talking about paragraph styles with extra spacing. I'm talking about consecutive paragraph styles with no extra spacing where the "spacing" or "margins" of the fonts themselves create a large gap.
Best Answer
What I finally found that seems to work reasonably well is setting the line spacing to an exact value.
Specifically, change Paragraph --> Indents and Spacing --> Line spacing from Single to Exactly and set At to an explicit point size. If you get small enough, you may need to add some Spacing After to make sure characters like lower-case "j" and "y" don't get clipped.
For example, I now have a paragraph style with 28 pt Segoe UI font where I set the line spacing to exactly 28 pt and the spacing after to 6 pt. This gets it very close to the paragraph right above it while still leaving a sizable margin below and plenty of room for "j" and "y" characters.