On Wednesday 24 January 2007 23:35, Gregory Pittman wrote: > John R. Culleton wrote: > > I need to set two lines of text for a chapter head. I am working from a > > spec set up by another person. I opened up the text editor, wrote the two > > lines at 30pt and they overlapped. Then I left a blank line in between > > and the descender on the letter y still overlapped the line below. > > > > How do I adjust the "leading" so that I can place the two lines the > > proper verical distance apart? I want the baseline skip to match the > > point size. > > This is challenging, and seems it should be easier or more flexible. In > the Story Editor, there isn't a widget for adjusting this. In the main > window, I think you are supposed to be able to adjust this in Edit > Contents of Frame mode, but I find that it adjusts the entire frame line > spacing. (v 1.3.3.8cvs) > > My suggestion would be to set up a new Paragraph Style (Edit > Paragraph > Styles, or accessible from Story Editor) for your headers. Here you are > able to independently adjust font size and line spacing to your likes, > and you will find that as you increase font size there is an automatic > adjustment of line size, with a preview window to show you what it looks > like. It will also allow for easily editing other headings later. > Very handy. Now how do I preserve this style for use on other documents? What kind of a suffix does it have and where is it stored?
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