The master grid of a layer is the page grid, specified on the master page that is assigned to the current layer. The master grid consists of margin box, vertical column guides, horizontal module guides, additional guides and horizontal and vertical grid steps (nudge).
The master grid is applied on a current layer when a master page is assigned to it. The special case are the horizontal and vertical grid steps (nudge): they are applied on the current layer only if its local grid is set to 0.
| X-origin: | 0 position of horizontal grid. It correspond to left margin (LM). |
| Y-origin: | 0 position of vertical grid. It correspond to top margin (RM). |
| Left margin: | the white space on the left side of work area |
| Right margin: | the white space on the right side of work area |
| Top margin: | the white space on the top side of work area |
| Bottom margin: | the white space on the bottom side of work area |
| Work area width: | the width of page grid. It corresponds to difference of page width (PW) and sum of left margin and right margin. WW=PW-(LM+RM). |
| Work area height: | the height of page grid. It corresponds to difference of page height (PH) and sum of top margin and bottom margin. WH=PH-(TM+BM). |
| Column width: | the space between two consecutive vertical guides. width of column. In a regular master grid, all the columns have the same width. The position of vertical master guides may be modified, in that case the columns may have different width (irregular grid). |
| Column gutter: | the space between columns. In a regular master grid, all the gutters have the same width. The position of vertical master guides may be modified, in that case the gutters may have different width (irregular grid). |
| Module height: | the space between two consecutive horizontal guides. In a regular master grid, all the modules have the same height. The position of horizontal master guides may be modified, in that case the modules may have different height (irregular grid). |
| Module gutter: | the space between modules. Usually is 0. In a regular master grid, all the gutters have the same height. The position of horizontal master guides may be modified, in that case the gutters may have different height (irregular grid). |
| Horizontal grid step: | the nudge in horizontal direction. |
| Vertical grid step: | nudge in vertical direction. In a regular master grid, all the vertical nudges will be the same. In order to achieve this, the module height must be multiple of vertical grid steps. If this is not the case, nudges may differ. |
| Additional guides: | additional vertical or horizontal guides |
See also Layer grid.
