[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 94464] Text Body default line spacing too big ( proportional 120% instead of Single )

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94464

--- Comment #21 from V Stuart Foote <vstuart.foote at utsa.edu> ---
(In reply to Yousuf Philips (jay) from comment #20)
> (In reply to RGB from comment #19)
> > NO, NO and NO again. What I'm saying is that what Butterick recommends was
> > misinterpreted!
> 
> No its is not. I linked to Butterick's explanation of how to achieve their
> recommendation of 120-140% in MS Word and you said to not trust the details
> mentioned on their page as "the author do not understand how "most word
> processors" work". So either you are for the recommendation as a whole or
> against it.

Correct. And as "peculiar" for MS's implementation, our target range for the
120%-145% line spacing would be the same 1.03-1.29 that Butterick
suggests--just in our implementation a 103-129 value.  Using our current Text
Body style default of 120 puts our spacing closer to 138%--too large.

We should be on the lower end, so 108 as Cor suggested was reasonable, and as
MS Moved Office to at 2013, effectively 125% of the Point size ("effective"
depending on the hhea or Typo height described in the font).  The Gentium Plus,
Gentium Plus Compact are a good example of how the font itself controls the
line spacing by increasing or decreasing the ascent/descent for the same glyphs
on a common em square.

This becomes more important to resolve if as suggested for bug 47295 we move
these metrics to be the basis of the Default style, i.e. what is applied to all
text when Direct Formatting is removed.

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