[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 #22 from Yousuf Philips (jay) <philipz85 at hotmail.com> ---
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1.00 to 1.20 comparison

(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #21)
> 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.

The recommendation states that anything within the 120% to 145% range is fine,
so why would it be too large to use 138%? I'm fine with taking the middle value
of the range, 132.5%, which is would be equivalent to 1.16, though i would
minus 1 from it so we could go for 1.15 like other apps.

> 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.

If you look at the line spacing page[1], it says "The text in this paragraph
has line spacing of 135%. It looks fine.", which is using 1.35, so wouldnt be
in favour of going to the lower end.

[1] http://practicaltypography.com/line-spacing.html

Took Cor's doc and modified it to include the range between 1.00 and 1.20 so we
can compare the sizes. I think 1.10 and 1.15 have the good amount of space to
not feel to camped or to large.

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