[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 144542] New: [DOCUMENTATION] Please describe line spacing in detail

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144542

            Bug ID: 144542
           Summary: [DOCUMENTATION] Please describe line spacing in detail
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: 7.2.1.1 rc
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: Writer
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: luke.kendall at gmail.com

I understand from helpful discussions with developers of Writer in the past
that the page layout for text should ideally produce an integer number of lines
of text to prevent some odd variations in placement of the last line on a page
(sometimes losing a line).

To set up a good page style that produces consistent results across a book it's
important to know how many lines will fit on a page, to ensure you've chosen
top and bottom margins, and height and spacing for header and footer, that will
allow Writer to fit a whole number of lines to the page size you've chosen.

But to do this you need to know the leading, so you can calculate the line
height. Obviously this varies depending on the spacing style and values chosen,
but it would be very helpful to know what the starting values are.

E.g. if I choose Single Spacing and a font height of 10.5pt, what is the line
height? My guess is that the leading would be 1.5pt to give a line height of
12pt, but this is only a guess on my part.

I couldn't find any documentation on this topic. It would be great if you could
provide some, so authors can do good book layout in Writer and take some of the
guesswork out of it.

We need to understand how the font size and line spacing values determine the
line height, so we can tell whether we've chosen margins and header and footers
that produces an integer number of lines.

Thanks!

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