On 04/26/2007 12:34 AM, Johnny Andersson wrote: > I just did a simple test: > > I opened a new text document and entered some text on a few lines using the > Text body style. > > Then I created a new style linked to text body. The only thing I changed was > Line spacing. I set it to "double". > I applied the new style to the text I've just written, then I entered some > more text (using the same new style) until it filled one page. The text > ended at 250 mm and it started at 10 mm, so all those lines together are > about 240 mm. > Then I changed back to the Text body style (which was set to "single" line > spacing. Now the text ended at 132 mm, still starting at 10 mm, which means > that the text is about 122 mm. > > So actually it seems like "double" gives a little less space than required, > rather than more, but it's very close, isn't it? > Then I tried the same thing in MS Word, which I don't have myself, but my > girlfriend has it installed on her laptop. In both cases > (OpenOffice.orgWriter, MS Word) I used the font Arial 12. With MS Word > I got 120 mm with > single line spacing and about 240 mm with double line spacing. > > Jelma, is it possible that you manually ended every line by hitting Enter? > Then, depending on the settings, more space would probably appear between > each line. Or did you perhaps use a too big font or something like that? As > far as I could test, OpenOffice.org Writer 2.2 seems to act almost exactly > like Word 2002 (10.2627.2625) in this very case. > > > Johnny Andersson >
I can confirm that. I also did a test as well using a public US Government document, AppendC-07-HB44-Final.doc: http://ts.nist.gov/WeightsAndMeasures/owmhome.cfm http://ts.nist.gov/WeightsAndMeasures/pubs.cfm http://ts.nist.gov/WeightsAndMeasures/h44-07.cfm http://ts.nist.gov/WeightsAndMeasures/upload/AppendC-07-HB44-Final.doc The document uses Time New Roman. All below were set using inches. I have two nearly identical machines side-by-side: one w/OOo (linux) and the other with Word97 (I have Word 2000 somewhere on another machine but too lazy to dig it up). I set the margins to 1.25 in both, and selected the first paragraph & selected "Double Space" from the paragraph boxes in both. I then printed the first page and held both printed sheets up against the light. When held over each other the paragraph lines up identically. There is however a shift to the right of about 1-1.25 characters in the OOo document. That is due to OOo _properly_ centering all of the text on the page whereas Word97 does not (and never has to my knowledge). I didn't bother messing around with the header, footer etc., I just wanted compare the double spacing & L/R margin settings of the paragraph. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
