Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer - Spacing

Are you asking for:
specific paragraphs have the spacing?
specific lines within the paragraphs have the extra spacing?
specific highlighted single line of text, like paragraph "headers", have 
the spacing?

I am not sure exactly what you want modified.



On 05/01/2013 11:54 PM, Brian Barker wrote:
> At 22:58 01/05/2013 -0400, Charles Meyer wrote:
> > I see in Writer 3.6.2.2 under Paragraph you can change the spacing 
> > settings.
>
> Line spacing is both a paragraph and a paragraph style property.
>
> > I've experimented with this without reaching my objective of changing 
> > the spacing from Single to something greater than single but less 
> > than 1.5.
>
> Note that you are here presumably meaning proportions: by "1.5" you 
> mean 50% more spacing than standard.
>
> > My goal is to create more space than single space between certain 
> > (but not all) lines of text throughput the document but I'm not sure 
> > how that can best (and easily) be done.
>
> You may be certain about which lines you mean, but as yet no-one else 
> is!  How you do this might depend on exactly how these lines are defined.
>
> > I've tried highlighting just the lines of text I want changed and 
> > then right clicking to Paragraph and then choosing At least 1.25 and 
> > it changes *all* the text in all the lines in the document. Same was 
> > true using Fixed and Proportional.
>
> First, note that line spacing of "At least" refers to a distance, not 
> a proportion, so "1.25" here would (unlike above) not mean 25% more 
> than standard but 1.25 in whatever is your chosen measurement unit - 
> centimetres, inches, or whatever.  If you want 25% more than standard, 
> choose Proportional and 125% instead.
>
> If this change affects all your text, then your entire document must 
> be in one paragraph.  Divide your document into paragraphs (using 
> Enter) and apply this change to the relevant paragraphs. Note that if 
> you right-click and select Edit Paragraph Style... instead of 
> Paragraph... you will affect all paragraphs in the same style as the 
> current paragraph - and that may well include all your text in a 
> simple but multi-paragraph document.
>
> > I'd appreciate your insight about how to change spacing text for just 
> > certain lines of text.
>
> Divide your document so that the text that needs extra spacing is in 
> separate paragraphs.  Either set the line spacing for these paragraphs 
> to a larger value or - better still - create a paragraph style with 
> extra line spacing and apply this style to the relevant paragraphs.
>
> I trust this helps.
>
> Brian Barker


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