Auto line spacing(?) wrong

[pummelfee]

Please, could someone have a look at the screenshot. You see that the space between the lines Auto correction does not work. So i have 8 Pt. font and Affinity makes an auto leading of 5,6 Pt.

[walt.farrell]

3 hours ago, pummelfee said:

Please, could someone have a look at the screenshot. You see that the space between the lines Auto correction does not work. So i have 8 Pt. font and Affinity makes an auto leading of 5,6 Pt.

Since it's shown in parentheses, that (5,6 pt) is a default value that was (I believe) specified by the font developer as part of the font definition. What font are you using, and where did you obtain it?

[R C-R]

I don't know if it is relevant to your issue but your screenshot shows the Character panel & the lower circled item is Leading Override, which overrides Leading (line spacing) set in the Paragraph panel.

[walt.farrell]

10 minutes ago, R C-R said:

I don't know if it is relevant to your issue but your screenshot shows the Character panel & the lower circled item is Leading Override, which overrides Leading (line spacing) set in the Paragraph panel.

I don't think that's relevant, as it shows as the default value, and if you start a new text frame and check the Character panel you will see an override set from the beginning.

[firstdefence]

I have sinkin sans installed and on mine it shows as 8pt From the leading dropdown select auto and what does it say after that?

The only way I can get it to 5.6pt with brackets is to use alt and the up arrow key (pressed 3 times)

[R C-R]

2 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

I don't think that's relevant, as it shows as the default value, and if you start a new text frame and check the Character panel you will see an override set from the beginning.

For me it is a "sticky" setting -- if I set a specific non-default override on the first (?) line in one text frame, when I start a new text frame it continues to use that instead of the default value. It does that even if I change the font to a different one in a new text frame.

[walt.farrell]

2 hours ago, firstdefence said:

The only way I can get it to 5.6pt with brackets is to use alt and the up arrow key (pressed 3 times)

That's interesting. Apparently, in the leading override field, having ( ) around the number does not mean it's a default, as it does in other fields I've looked at. I'm used to user-specified values having [ ] (square brackets, not parentheses) around them.

That means that @pummelfee might have made that adjustment themself the same way you describe, by using Alt and up-arrow, rather than it being retrieved from the font definition.