[scribus] Line spacing increases when point size reduced

[a.l.e]

William Kenny wrote:
> Hi a.l.e
>
> Not sure of its the viagra premium edition but it certainly makes the air
> turn blue around here :-)
>
> Try this. Open new document and add a text frame with all defaults. On my
> system the defualt font is Times New Roman Regular and default point size is
> 12pt.
>
> Go into Edit Text and paste
>
> Line One
> Line two
> Line three
> Line four
>
> and insert into frame. It should appear with 'normal' line spacing.
>
> Go back into Edit Text, select the text, reduce the point size to 6pt and
> insert. The text size is reduced as expected but the line spacing increases
> (or at least it does not reduce proportionately to the text size). I can fix
> it manually by using the spacing selector, but would obviously prefer if
> this was done automatically.
>   
exactly: the line spacing is -- per default -- fixed. you have to select 
an automatic line spacing to achieve what you want.

if the behaviour has not changed, you should do a long click the button 
(yes it is a button: there is a small triangle in the bottom right 
corner...) and you will get the a choice between different line spacing 
modes.

1.3.5.1 will show you a pretty drop down list for it!

hope that helps
a.l.e