On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 5:43 AM, Gregory Pittman <gregp_ky at yahoo.com> wrote: > avox wrote: >> >> Alison Saylor wrote: >> >>> >>> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 11:48 PM, Pierre Marchand <capparis at free.fr> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> We would like to know for what exactly you want to change. >>>> >>>> >>> >>> by change I mean I've successfully spaced out the text so the lines >>> were not so close together and it was centered overall in the text box >>> (not all squished up at the top) >>> >>> >> >> The easiest way to do this is with the Properties Palette: >> >> - Select the textframe >> - go to Properties Palette -> Text >> - set linespacing mode to fixed and linespacing to eg 16pt >> - go to Properties Palette -> Shape >> - set the margin at top >> > > Just to amplify a bit. There is a trickiness to the relationship between > font size and linespacing. > See: > http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Working_with_text_frames#Properties:_Text_Tab
ok, I will check this out, thank you > > If you click-hold the button to the left of the linespacing spinbox, you > will see the choices Fixed Linespacing, and Automatic Linespacing, and Align > to Baseline Grid -- I'm only going to talk about the first 2 choices here. > In fixed linespacing versus automatic, the main difference is that in fixed > you can independently adjust the linespacing, you lose this in automatic. In > both choices, when you are in Select Item mode, changing the font size will > adjust linespacing automatically according to your settings in File > > Preferences > Typography, where, for example, automatic linespacing of 20% > means that linespacing will be 120% of font size. > > When you are in Edit Contents mode, or in Story Editor and have highlighted > text, changing font size does _not_ automatically change linespacing when > you are in fixed linespacing but it does in automatic (I note there can be > some glitches in this behavior). Also note that in Story Editor, you have no > linespacing spinbox at all, except if you Edit Styles. > Thank you, that's good to know, validates my experience > One thing to note is that when you have fonts with different sizes and > linespacing in a frame, the Text tab information will be misleading or wrong > in Select Item mode. Changing text parameters in Select Item mode changes > them for the entire frame. > > Align to Baseline Grid is a different concept, which you can read about on > the wiki if you wish. > > Greg > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus >
