Dear list, yes - me too - we despise everything automatic. We want full control over our page layout.
Still, my team asked me a question this morning and I could not answer it: How can we know what line-spacing Scribus is using, when we opt for "automatic line spacing". The help file is saying this: "Automatic spacing causes Scribus to adjust for you, according to the font size. The default setting for this is 120% of the font size, but this can be adjusted in File > Preferences > Typography." But we noticed that different fonts give different automatic line spacing, even if we apply them all in font-size 10 pt. (We made text-frames and applied 10 pt size and automatic spacing and measured the line-spacing with manual hack, having changed the main document units to pt.) We guess, that the font-makers have an internal option to send out their fonts with a "proposed default line-spacing"? For example Charis SIL (which is meant for many languages and which can and does handle multiple-stacked diacritics) goes to 16,2 pt automatic line spacing for 10 pt font-size. And Arial Unicode only goes to 13,3 pt automatic line spacing for 10 pt font-size. Now where can we find out / look up this "inbuilt line-spacing default" which is probably somewhere inside the fonts? Or rather: From all the inbuilt-definitions within a given font, which one does Scribus apply when the user is opting for automatic line spacing? I had a look in Fontforge, Font-Information and found information for example in the tab OS/2 / metrics / Type-Durchschuss; but how can I know where Scribus is looking? This is not super-live-threatening urgent or important. Mainly meant for my training and for training our team. Always hoping to get to know our favourite DTP-tool a little better. Thank you, Martin -- ZASKE Martin responsable G?G? BP 50 - Bassila - B?nin tel G?G? 66.66.11.11 tel pers 97.44.62.95
