Re: [libreoffice-users] Odd line spacing

John,

I saw the problem when I tried to superscript. As far as I could tell,
there is no concept of "baseline" grid that text returns to... once you get
off the grid for whatever reason, it affects everything.

In order to work around this, I did 3 things:

1. I forced the entire document onto a grid:  enabling 'Register-true' for
every style (all 500ish of them.) they all register to 'm', except the
footnote set which registers to 'f'.

2. I also use a specific line spacing and not a percent or preset. I also
use only actual italic faces and not libreoffice created faces.

3. I also match the actual height of various styles within each document so
that the height of x and X are the same for all fonts by managing the
height with scaling factors.  Libreoffice only has Y scaling as a function
of superscript so to match fonts most of my styles declare themselves
"superscript" then scale by a few percent.

Some examples are here:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1yzjUqTzvui4l8mYjTiF-t1qjxZ4gpxCi?usp=sharing

I think all the fonts in these templates are available from Google Drive,
but possibly you'll have to find some from other places... they're all open
licensed fonts.


On Mon, Feb 1, 2021 at 3:54 PM John <john.iliffe@iliffe.ca> wrote:

> When I type a line with italics in it the line spacing seems to
> change.  At the moment the page is set to proportional 100% and the
> font size is 12 pt for all characters on the line. With only "normal"
> characters the lines are evenly spaced and the page looks nice.
>
> When there is italics within the text, additional space appears above
> and/or below the line so the lines are no longer evenly spaced.  The
> effect is to have a rather ragged page layout.
>
> What it "looks like" is if LibreOffice has taken the outer boundary of
> the character area and rotated it to create the italic effect and the
> corners of the boundary have pushed the adjacent line up (or down or
> both).  Probably not that but that is the visual effect.  Setting the
> size of the italic characters to 11 pt makes everything look right
> again.  The effect carries through to pdf files generated from the
> .odt editor files.
>
> A friend who has a different version of LibreOffice (an older one) has
> been able to take my .odt files and convert to .pdf without having
> this effect.
>
> The font I am using (Garamond Pro) has an italic file included with it
> although I can't prove that it is being used.
>
> Can anyone suggest how I caused this and what I should do to fix it?
>
> LibreOffice 6.1.3.2 running on Fedora 32 Workstation edition.
>
> Regards,
>
> John
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