mike a ?crit : > not to change the subject, but can anyone tell me how to change the spacing > between lines in scribus? i think this used to be know as the 'letting'
Hi Mike, "Leading" is the other word for "linespacing". When you set the values for text in the Properties Palette > Text tab, it?s possible to set only one linespacing value per text frame. For more flexibility regarding linespacing, you have to create paragraph stylesheet in Edit > Paragraph Styles... Scribus then allows the use of as many linepacing values as you want ? per paragraph ? in one single text frame, provided you have set a paragraph stylesheet for each, and have applied it through the Story Editor. As you may have found already, you have 3 options for linespacing (in the PP and in the Paragraph Style... create dialog): [Auto] [Fixed] [Lock to baseline grid] To see those options, you have to keep your mouse button clicked on the icon to see a well-hidden pull-down menu. [Some of us here on this list pray for this hidden-menu to be replaced by something more obvious for users!!! You may pray with us!!! :-) ] [Auto linespacing] is based on a percentage value of the typesize you are using. This percentage has to be set in the Preference > Typography. The default is 20%. This means that for a typesize of 10 pts, you?ll get an auto linespacing of 12 pts. As you increase or decrease your typesize, the leading value will increase or decrease by this percentage. The auto percentage can be changed either in the Prefs (with no document open) and will affect all further documents or it can be modified at any time in the Edit > Document Settings > Typography (the dialogs are identical) and will affect only the current document. Autolinespacing is quick but remember that a change in the percentage will affect all the paragraph to which this type of linespacing was used. [Fixed] is just that: fixed. You set a value for linespacing and this value will not change when you increase or decrease the typesize. [Lock to baseline grid] will not care about the font size either. You need to go to the Preferences, in the Guides section. There at the bottom right you?ll see 2 fields. One is the grid itself, so the linespacing value, and the other is the offset, where it will start. This is mostly used in multicolumns documents where you want to see all the lines properly aligned from one column to another, especially if you have objects such as images that break the text flow here and there in your layout. Cheers! Louis > > working on a business card and there is too much space between the lines as > default ... > > thanks guys > > mike
