Re: [libreoffice-users] Odd line spacing

Thank you Michael.

It just seems so bizarre since as a rule LibreOffice turns out very
nicely formatted text.  This page presentation is at least rather
jarring and looks unprofessional.

Thanks for the suggestions; I'll try them in the morning when I have
some time to play with the setup.  The fonts should be from the font
supplier (Soft Maker) and not created by LibreOffice but there is
probably no way to make sure that is so.  All I can say for sure is
that the italics does appear as an option on the font selection list.

Regards,

John
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On Mon, 2021-02-01 at 17:37 -0600, Michael H wrote:
> 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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