On Sunday 07 January 2007 03:36, Michael Koren wrote: > I had always assumed that the 20% etc. linespacing setting in preferences > applied to automatic linespacing, so it was locked to 20% more than the > font size in that mode (although the 20% increase is also applied by > default in fixed mode whenever you change the font size...). > > But I tried it and got 17.3 pt linespacing for a 12pt font, so I guess not. > Craig said in a bug report that the automatic value is computed from the > font itself, so what's the algorithm? 17.3 seems a bit odd a value as a > default for 12pt text. Just curious.
It is part of the font file, as determined by the people who designed the font, no calculation involved by Scribus. Regards Craig
