<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"><html><head><meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></head><body ><div style='font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;'>See http://write.flossmanuals.net/scribus/typography/<br><br>Automatic linespacing adjusts the space according to the size of the font. The default setting for this is 120% of the font size, but this can be adjusted in File > Preferences > Typography. <b>Notice that this setting is actually what will be added to 100% </b>[my emphasis]<b>. </b>Because of the variability of the result according to font size, professionals typically do not use this type of spacing.<br><br>-u<br><div class="zmail_extra"><div id="1"><br>---- On Mon, 25 Sep 2017 12:41:06 +0000 <b>ZASKE Martin <zm@revue-gugu.org></b> wrote ---- <br></div><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid #0000FF;padding-left: 6px; margin: 0 0 0 5px"><div>Dear list,<br><br>yes - me too - we despise everything automatic. We want full control<br>over our page layout.<br><br><br><br>Still, my team asked me a question this morning and I could not answer it:<br><br>How can we know what line-spacing Scribus is using, when we opt for<br>"automatic line spacing".<br><br>The help file is saying this:<br>"Automatic spacing causes Scribus to adjust for you, according to the<br>font size. The default setting for this is 120% of the font size, but<br>this can be adjusted in File > Preferences > Typography."<br><br>But we noticed that different fonts give different automatic line<br>spacing, even if we apply them all in font-size 10 pt. (We made<br>text-frames and applied 10 pt size and automatic spacing and measured<br>the line-spacing with manual hack, having changed the main document<br>units to pt.)<br><br>We guess, that the font-makers have an internal option to send out their<br>fonts with a "proposed default line-spacing"?<br><br>For example Charis SIL (which is meant for many languages and which can<br>and does handle multiple-stacked diacritics) goes to 16,2 pt automatic<br>line spacing for 10 pt font-size. And Arial Unicode only goes to 13,3 pt<br>automatic line spacing for 10 pt font-size.<br><br><br>Now where can we find out / look up this "inbuilt line-spacing default"<br>which is probably somewhere inside the fonts? Or rather: From all the<br>inbuilt-definitions within a given font, which one does Scribus apply<br>when the user is opting for automatic line spacing?<br><br><br>I had a look in Fontforge, Font-Information and found information for<br>example in the tab OS/2 / metrics / Type-Durchschuss; but how can I know<br>where Scribus is looking?<br><br><br><br><br><br>This is not super-live-threatening urgent or important. Mainly meant for<br>my training and for training our team. Always hoping to get to know our<br>favourite DTP-tool a little better.<br><br>Thank you,<br><br>Martin<br><br><br>-- <br>ZASKE Martin<br>responsable GʊGʊ<br>BP 50 - Bassila - Bénin<br>tel GʊGʊ 66.66.11.11<br>tel pers 97.44.62.95<br><br>___<br>Scribus Mailing List: <a href="mailto:scribus@lists.scribus.net" target="_blank">scribus@lists.scribus.net</a><br>Edit your options or unsubscribe:<br><a href="http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus" target="_blank">http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus</a><br>See also:<br><a href="http://wiki.scribus.net" target="_blank">http://wiki.scribus.net</a><br><a href="http://forums.scribus.net" target="_blank">http://forums.scribus.net</a></div></blockquote><br></div><br></div></body></html>