Re: [libreoffice-users] rogue multi-line spacing

At 14:41 22/05/2015 -0400, Marianne Keating wrote:
> I know of only two ways to increase the leading, or line-spacing, in 
> a block of text (using, specifically, LO 4.3.7.2, Curtains 7/64 
> bit). One is to right-click, go to line-spacing, and select.

That indeed modifies line spacing for the current paragraph (as 
distinct from the current paragraph style). You can reach the same 
setting at Format | Paragraph... | Indents & Spacing | Line spacing 
(or right-click | Paragraph... | Indents & Spacing | Line spacing).

> The other is to put an explicit <CR>, or <ENTER> at the end of one 
> line to insert a blank line before the next.

That is quite another thing. Here you are not inserting a "blank 
line" (which is anyway an outdated, typewriter concept) but an empty 
*paragraph*. That generally won't achieve what you need, since text 
will not flow correctly between lines when it is modified.

> There seems to be a third way lurking, as yet undetected. For a 
> screenshot showing the unexpected behaviour, see: ... this link may 
> be to the original .odt file: ...
> There's no way to illustrate a verification of my statement that the 
> context menu hasn't been invoked, but the dearth of excess <CR>s is 
> proven by the revealed codes. Can anybody point out what I 
> apparently haven't learned yet?

Yes: you are confusing line spacing (within a paragraph) and 
paragraph spacing (between paragraphs).

> The last 3 lines of text above [in your document], and all 
> subsequent lines, are apparently double-spaced, but as ^F10 will 
> show, there are no extra line feeds there. Using context menu from 
> right-click shows no setting to multi-line spacing either.

Those are not lines but paragraphs, and if you extend the text in any 
of the paragraphs until it flows to a second line you will see that 
the lines are not double-spaced. Instead, paragraph spacing (of 0.50 
cm below) has been set for these paragraphs. See Format | 
Paragraph... | Indents & Spacing | Spacing | Below paragraph (or 
right-click | Paragraph... | Indents & Spacing | Spacing | Below paragraph).

> Everything is "Default Style", no changes from section to section.

You could indeed have applied similar paragraph spacing using the 
(Default) paragraph style (e.g. through right-click | Edit Paragraph 
Style...), but here you have chosen to apply direct formatting 
instead - which takes precedence over style formatting.

> Once the preceding paragraph was started, the multi-spacing went away.

Actually it didn't: that paragraph still has single line spacing but 
also the same paragraph spacing of 0.50 cm below - betrayed by the 
positions of the subsequent paragraphs in the document. (New 
paragraphs inherit the properties of the existing previous paragraph.)

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker


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