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.
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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).
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(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
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