Paragraph leading - no precise adjustment?

[dbrear]

Has anyone else found that CTRL-ALT-UP gives exactly the same result as Alt-UP?

[walt.farrell]

3 hours ago, dbrear said:

Has anyone else found that CTRL-ALT-UP gives exactly the same result as Alt-UP?

No. Though I do find that Alt+Up give a smaller decrease than Ctrl+Alt+Up, and I have a hard time considering the Ctrl+Alt+Up as being a more "precise" decrease. With 12 pt Arial text (12.4 pt leading) Alt+Up gives me an 11 pt leading (1.4 pt decrease) and Ctrl+Alt+Up gives me 9.9 pt leading (2.5 pt decrease). I would have expected, perhaps, a "precise" decrease as being 1/10 of the amount of a non-precise decrease, so perhaps Ctrl+Alt+Up should have given a .14 pt decrease.

What OS do you use?

[Kal]

Yep, pretty much the same result for me on macOS (comparing Option-Up to Command-Option-Up). The so-called 'precise' option is ever so slightly less, but both are a massive adjustment. Curiously, if I choose 'Paragraph Leading > Decrease' from the menu, it moves about half as much as using the shortcut! Not sure I've ever seen a menu command with a listed shortcut behave completely differently to the shortcut itself—in any Mac program ever. Seriously strange.

[garrettm30]

Similarly, I have this issue with tracking. I wish the "precise" setting were 1 or 2‰ than 10.

[Kal]

With text sizing, both the shortcut and the menu commands work as expected. Although I intensely dislike that Publisher changes the increment by a factor of 10 when you cross the 10 point threshold. (Above 10 points gives you a 1 point standard increment, while 10 or less gives you a 0.1 point increment.) This is a classic example of when software oversteps the line in trying to make 'helpful' assumptions better left to the user. I want complete control over these kinds of settings (like I have in InDesign). I guess this is the approach Affinity has taken to give us a bare-bones preference pane.