How can I change the spacing between two paragraphs?

[anotherhoward]

In Affinity Designer (Mac version 1.10.4), I want to reduce the spacing between two paragraphs. When I choose Text > Paragraph Leading > Decrease it reduces the spacing between all the lines in both paragraphs.

The attached image shows where I want the spacing changed.

How can I do that?

Thanks,

Howard

[Joachim_L]

5 minutes ago, anotherhoward said:

How can I do that?

Have a look at the Paragraph panel. I guess the gap is caused by the infamous 12 pt Space after Paragraph default. I still don't get it, why Serif thought that this could be a good default, I would have preferred no value.

[anotherhoward]

Joachim,

That solved the problem.

Thanks,

Howard

[R C-R]

4 hours ago, Joachim_L said:

Have a look at the Paragraph panel. I guess the gap is caused by the infamous 12 pt Space after Paragraph default. I still don't get it, why Serif thought that this could be a good default, I would have preferred no value.

Maybe I have misunderstood what you mean but if it defaulted to zero wouldn't there be no space at all between paragraphs?

[prophet]

2 minutes ago, R C-R said:

no space at all between paragraphs

Indeed. I would also prefer this so I can set my own spacing if necessary.

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, prophet said:

Indeed. I would also prefer this so I can set my own spacing if necessary.

You can define a default set of text styles and use them.In And, I think, you can change the defaults for text frames.

[prophet]

10 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

you can change the defaults for text frames

Indeed you can. And I have. Thanks.

[R C-R]

3 hours ago, prophet said:

Indeed. I would also prefer this so I can set my own spacing if necessary.

That would probably be worth a mention in the Feature Requests & Feedback forum. If you do that, maybe make it clear you want a zero default value ('no space at all' might be misinterpreted by some users who might otherwise agree that thois should be the default).