[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 94464] Text Body default line spacing too big ( proportional 115% instead of Single )

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

--- Comment #16 from RGB <rgb.mldc at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Yousuf Philips (jay) from comment #13)
> (In reply to RGB from comment #0)
> > http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Default-Writer-Template-
> > tp4076271p4076285.html
> > 
> > Writer's default template was set to use "line-spacing proportional at 120%,
> > as recommended by Butterick's Practical Typography" (sic), but there is a
> > problem here: that 120% should be applied to the font "point size", **not to
> > the "single spacing"**. 
> 
> I looked over the thread and Mirek suggested and approved the implementation
> so I believe it was implemented correctly. I further check the
> specification[1] and it says "To get line spac­ing in the 120–145% range,
> use a <Multiple> value of 1.03 - 1.24.", which our 120% line spacing is in.
> 
> [1] http://practicaltypography.com/line-spacing.html
> 
> So to compare, MS currently used Multiple 1.15 with 10pt below paragraph and
> we use Multiple 1.20 with 7pt below paragraph.
> 
> I believe this bug can be closed as NOTABUG.

Can you please reread what I wrote? Typefaces come BY DESIGN with line spacings
that are between 120 and 140% of the POINT size: Libertinux is around the 120%
and, as I commented on the description, Sukhumala is at 130%. Setting another
120% on top of an existing 130% gives you a frikin 156%!!! That cannot be
right.

Please, don't trust too much the details on the quoted page, the phrase "Word
uses pe­cu­liar line-spac­ing math" shows that the author do not understand how
"most word processors" work. The math is not peculiar, in fact there is no math
at all: single line spacing is defined by the typeface itself! Nowadays only
LaTeX uses the point size to define line spacing and THERE you'll find some
"peculiar line-spacing math".

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