Hi Seán,
The fact that I understand a bit of OpenOffice doesn't mean that I'm
knowledgeable in the printing business, but this is what I found using
Google:
Line spacing is measured from baseline to baseline. In print, it is
traditionally measured in points (or as normal, double and triple in
some word processing programs). But for the web and digital devices,
it is commonly referred to as line height, and can be expressed in
pixels, points or centi-meters (px, pt or cm), or as a percentage of
the type size (120% or 1.2). Other accepted terminology includes
normal, small and big.
If you want 10 cm above your heading you could give a few blank lines
above the heading.
Depending on your font size it could be anything between 8 till 14 blank
lines.
Oh by the way using Single Line Spacing could look great with one font,
but it could look cramped with other fonts.
You can download the Kindle Previewer see how your document look and
modify your document where necessary.
Have fun,
Martin
On 11/12/17 8:48 PM, Sean Connors wrote:
Dear Martin
Thank you for your reply. I have opened styles and formatting and set
cms to zero. However the only options I see for line spacing are
single, 1.5,double,proportional, at least, leading or fixed.
My heading was 10cms dowm the A4 page. Can you tell me how to position
my heading in roughly the same position using lines instead of cms.
Apologies for my lack of ability. I am an analogue mind trying to cope
in a digital age.
Thanks Seán.
On Monday, December 11, 2017, Martin Groenescheij
<mar...@groenescheij.com <mailto:mar...@groenescheij.com>> wrote:
>
>
> On 11/12/17 8:33 AM, Sean Connors wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> I am about to submit a manuscript for file conversion for upload to
Amazon
>> kindle etc. for the first time.
>>
>> I notice that the spacing above and below my headings is in cms and
I've
>> been told that it should be in lines -- otherwise it might not
convert to
>> fit the many different sized screens correctly.
>
> Go to Format -> Styles and Formatting, on the Indent & Spacing tab
make sure you have set Spacing Above and Below paragraph
> are set to 0.00 and set the Line Spacing to your desired value. Make
sure you do this for all used Styles.
>
>>
>> Can you tell me if this is correct and if it is, can I convert the
spacing
>> from cms to lines?
>>
>> Many thanks
>>
>> Seán
>>
>
>
