https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94464
Bug ID: 94464 Summary: Default line spacing too big Product: LibreOffice Version: 4.4.5.2 release Hardware: All OS: All Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: medium Component: Writer Assignee: libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org Reporter: rgb.m...@gmail.com NOTE: It seems the default line spacing was set on 2013, but I only noticed the problem with it now because someone asked me why the line spacing was so big on a new LibO's Writer document. --------------------------------------------- According to this message: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Default-Writer-Template-tp4076271p4076285.html Writer's default template was set to use "line-spacing proportional at 120%, as recommended by Butterick's Practical Typography" (sic), but there is a problem here: that 120% should be applied to the font "point size", **not to the "single spacing"**. In fact, in Writer "proportional line spacing" use the "single spacing" as reference and that value is NOT the point size but a distance defined on the typeface itself(1). For example, the Sukhumala typeface(2) defines a line spacing of 130% of the point size, so using a line spacing "proportional at 120%" makes the line spacing in Writer for that font a 156% of the point size! Most font makers already take care of the default line spacing so using "single spacing" is correct most of the time. If for some reason you prefer to use a larger line spacing on the default template, 105% (maximum, 110%) should be OK for most purposes (even if I do not recommend this: the font designer had a good reason to choose the default value, I think). ------------------------------------------- (1) To see this fact in action, install both, Gentium Plus and Gentium Plus Compact on your system http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=Gentium_download#801ab246 The only difference between both fonts is, indeed, the default line spacing. And it is a HUGE difference. (2) http://forum.high-logic.com/viewtopic.php?t=5108 -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
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