Apparently, long copy conforms to the baseline. (Without my asking it to! How convenient, for one thing.)

Actually, that’s a paragraph setting.

By the way, have you tried to write something like “14 pt” in the “Increment Every” field?
It works.

It works.

I made no association in my mind between “inches” and “points” when counterparts to “inches” have always been picas, pixels, etc. At least, to the extent I’ve worked with InDesign.

I’ve never seen pixels being used as a unit in InDesign. 72 pt = 6 p = 1 in.

And anyway, you can turn off the snap to baseline setting in the Paragraph panel. But someone already said that.

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It certainly sounds like you have set Align To Baseline as a default option; usually it is off, for new documents.

The settings in Preferences are mixed: some of them Document-wide, others Application-wide. If you change any preference (any at all! imagine!) with no document open, it’ll become the default for new documents.

.. unlike the type with which it works, Baseline is adjusted in increments of inches/picas/etc., and not, point.

Its value is show in your very own preferred vertical measurement unit. One could argue that leading is measured in points in general (as well as in InDesign!), but one could also argue that the baseline grid is meant for the Respect the Grid guys, who don’t care for leading but want to define this grid in their own design units.

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Hello to all of you, I would like your help to find a font.

Hope you can , thank you,

Hi carlos. Best place to ask is in the Type ID Board (can’t miss — it’s the one with the subtitle “Need to know what font it is? Post it here.”).
(And, FYI, it’s kinda rude to post an entirely unrelated question smack in the middle of an ongoing thread.)

Welcome to Typophile, nevertheless.