At 4:46 PM +1000 17/10/02, Brian Ferguson wrote:
On October 16 2002, Geoffrey Heard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:At 12:35 PM +1000 16/10/02, Brian Ferguson wrote:9. Hooray. OC has the ability to set Paragraph Spacing; normal, space-above and space-below. NW lacks all three.Que? That little window at the right of the toolbar, Brian? Gives space above in whatever measurement you designate
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Space-before and space-after are very useful adjustments for a nice looking document where headings are involved. The right-hand box you mention merely increases/decreases the space between paragraphs.
It is actually operates as space before.
When I set a heading or section paragraph I like to set the spacing above and below the heading to different values - a greater space above the heading than below. Nisus will only allow adjustment of space above. Doing this allows the spacing of body text paragraphs to be set constant and not have to fiddle with the space before the first paragraph. If you cannot follow this, don't worry. It is a feature of page layout.True. I don't notice it, I guess, because of the way I work most of the time. Even in PageMaker, I generally have a special style for the paragraph after a head because I tend to format such paragraphs slightly different from other body text. I would expect NW X to have both before and after spacing, though. That has becomed a basic requirement in WPs now.
The effect would be most valuable if you can set a heading Style which gives more space above than below. I don't think NW can do this; yet... (:
Yeah, but then you never know what happens in AW when you change things like tabs or indents for one paragraph. You usually get the whole document altered.Styles, my boy, styles. AW has some quirky implementation. I worked out at one timed how to fix this, but can't remember the way I did it now!
Customising in the new NWX will follow I'm sure.
One hopes so.
...Also, unless the user is a typesetter, points and picas are a bit hard to get one's mind correctly placed.Since all type comes in points, I think of the points between paragraphs as a fraction of the type size. I would hate to abandon that relationship for a different measure.
Cheers
Geoff
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