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ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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0004287 | Scribus | Styles | public | 2006-09-25 22:16 | 2025-04-13 08:41 |
Reporter | wagenaar | Assigned To | avox | ||
Priority | normal | Severity | feature | Reproducibility | always |
Status | assigned | Resolution | open | ||
Platform | i386-x64 | OS | Linux | OS Version | Ubuntu 6.06 |
Product Version | 1.3.3.3 | ||||
Summary | 0004287: Align to baseline grid makes line spacing equal grid spacing instead of least greater multiple | ||||
Description | In older versions (e.g. 1.2.4), selecting "Align to baseline grid" in Edit Paragraph Style aligned the baseline of each line of type to the baseline grid, with the "line spacing" treated as a minimum. I.e., if line spacing was set to, e.g. 36 pt, and the baseline grid spacing was 10 pt, the next line would be 40 pt away from the current line. I believe that is the correct behavior. In version 1.3.3.3, the next line will be only 10 pt away from the current line, making lines overlap. | ||||
Steps To Reproduce | Create a Paragraph style with a font larger than the baseline grid spacing, and enable "Align to baseline grid". | ||||
Tags | typography | ||||
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I was just wishing it worked like that yesterday myself. |
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This is something I also would love to see implemented. When I worked with proprietary software, I'd *always* use a baseline grid, but the current behavior reduces flexibility such that I hardly use it anymore, which is a real shame because I have to spend time manually aligning text. Maybe it would be good to keep the current align-to-baseline behavior and add another line-spacing option: "Next Baseline," which would work in the way described above. |
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knowing how scribus tends to work, i fear that it would tend to "wrongly" calculate the height of the line and add lines when diacritics are a bit too high... so we might need a document setting to strictly enforce the baseline grid or to allow skips. the okish alternative here is to define a paragraph style with a given font size and a fixed line height, if possible matching the baseline grid. |
Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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2006-09-25 22:16 | wagenaar | New Issue | |
2006-10-05 02:54 | mkoren | Note Added: 0012799 | |
2006-11-17 01:34 | avox | Status | new => assigned |
2006-11-17 01:34 | avox | Assigned To | => avox |
2011-06-15 11:28 | jghali | Relationship added | has duplicate 0010050 |
2011-08-27 23:37 | jghali | Relationship added | has duplicate 0010159 |
2025-04-10 18:08 | Nathan | Note Added: 0052424 | |
2025-04-10 19:57 | ale | Tag Attached: typography | |
2025-04-10 20:15 | ale | Note Added: 0052425 | |
2025-04-13 08:41 | ale | Note Edited: 0052425 |