Am Sonntag, 28. Januar 2007 21:50 schrieb John R. Culleton: > On Wednesday 24 January 2007 23:35, Gregory Pittman wrote: > > John R. Culleton wrote: > > > I need to set two lines of text for a chapter head. I am working from a > > > spec set up by another person. I opened up the text editor, wrote the > > > two lines at 30pt and they overlapped. Then I left a blank line in > > > between and the descender on the letter y still overlapped the line > > > below. > > > > > > How do I adjust the "leading" so that I can place the two lines the > > > proper verical distance apart? I want the baseline skip to match the > > > point size. > > > > This is challenging, and seems it should be easier or more flexible. In > > the Story Editor, there isn't a widget for adjusting this. In the main > > window, I think you are supposed to be able to adjust this in Edit > > Contents of Frame mode, but I find that it adjusts the entire frame line > > spacing. (v 1.3.3.8cvs) > > > > My suggestion would be to set up a new Paragraph Style (Edit > Paragraph > > Styles, or accessible from Story Editor) for your headers. Here you are > > able to independently adjust font size and line spacing to your likes, > > and you will find that as you increase font size there is an automatic > > adjustment of line size, with a preview window to show you what it looks > > like. It will also allow for easily editing other headings later. > > Very handy. Now how do I preserve this style for use on other documents? > What kind of a suffix does it have and where is it stored?
The style is stored in the document. You can import the style via "Edit > Paragraph Style > Import". HTH, Christoph
