Type Leading Issues

[kanihoncho]

Publisher is my least favorite Affinity app. It is totally non-intuitive because it seems to be based on MS Word which is not a page layout program. It is a word processing program that companies insist on using for page layout. I have used Pagemaker, Quark, and InDesign.

I have an about statement in a boiler plate for a press release. There are no text styles applied

Pic 1. The first line below the about statement is 9/13 type (9 pt type on 13 pt leading). I have to manually set this every time because Publisher insists on creating solid text (the type size is equal to the leading). Every other page layout app will automatically set the leading to be 2 or 3 pts larger than the type size

Pic 2. I want to increase the leading to 14 points on the first line only to separate in from the About header. Look at the huge jump that it makes when I change it by 1 pt to 14.

Anybody have any ideas why this happens? TIA

[PaulEC]

Pic 2: Is the Baseline Grid enabled? If so, try disabling it.

[walt.farrell]

3 hours ago, kanihoncho said:

Pic 1. The first line below the about statement is 9/13 type (9 pt type on 13 pt leading). I have to manually set this every time because Publisher insists on creating solid text (the type size is equal to the leading). Every other page layout app will automatically set the leading to be 2 or 3 pts larger than the type size

The Affinity applications use the values established by the font's designer. The leading is not a fixed value, as in some other applications, but can vary with each font as the designer determined.

[kanihoncho]

That was it. There seem to be a lot of settings in V2 that are set by default that were not in V1.

[bici]

On 3/16/2023 at 7:59 AM, PaulEC said:

Pic 2: Is the Baseline Grid enabled? If so, try disabling it.

wow! i have been struggling for two days to increasing the Leading on ONLY one text frame. Disabling Baseline Grid worked. BUT doing so also disabaled Baseline Grid  on my whole document of 30 pages! I ONLY want it to be in effect for one selected text frame ....not the whole document. How do i achieve this for only one text frame? 

[walt.farrell]

13 minutes ago, bici said:

not the whole document. How do i achieve this for only one text frame? 

The Text Frame panel gives you control over the Baseline Grid for each frame.

Text Styles also provide some control.

[Old Bruce]

1 hour ago, bici said:

wow! i have been struggling for two days to increasing the Leading on ONLY one text frame. Disabling Baseline Grid worked. BUT doing so also disabaled Baseline Grid  on my whole document of 30 pages! I ONLY want it to be in effect for one selected text frame ....not the whole document. How do i achieve this for only one text frame? 

I would use the Paragraph Styles to set up my Text Styles to use the Baseline grid. I would use the Text Frame panel to set the text frames to use their own Baseline.

If you have already laid out the whole publication using the Document's Baseline grid* then it becomes more difficult. You could select the text on that one page and over-ride the paragraphs in it to not use the baseline grid. But then if the text gets edited and reflows into or out of the Page.... More fiddly work.

 

* And I will wager you are in this situation.

[bici]

21 hours ago, Old Bruce said:

I would use the Paragraph Styles to set up my Text Styles to use the Baseline grid. I would use the Text Frame panel to set the text frames to use their own Baseline.

If you have already laid out the whole publication using the Document's Baseline grid* then it becomes more difficult. You could select the text on that one page and over-ride the paragraphs in it to not use the baseline grid. But then if the text gets edited and reflows into or out of the Page.... More fiddly work.

* And I will wager you are in this situation.

yes! i still dont under stand how to turn off baseline grid  for JUST the two Poems that i have to add and increase their font size and leading. More fiddly work.won't really apply as once i have the poems set i wont be editing the text again.

[Old Bruce]

2 minutes ago, bici said:

yes! i still dont under stand how to turn off baseline grid  for JUST the two Poems that i have to add and increase their font size and leading. More fiddly work.won't really apply as once i have the poems set i wont be editing the text again.

Select the text in the poem(s) using the text caret. Call up the Paragraph Panel Window > Text > Paragraph and perhaps the Character Panel as well. Turn off/on change whatever is necessary in that. This will override the Paragraph Style's settings.

I am assuming we are both talking about Publisher.

[bici]

3 hours ago, Old Bruce said:

Select the text in the poem(s) using the text caret. Call up the Paragraph Panel Window > Text > Paragraph and perhaps the Character Panel as well. Turn off/on change whatever is necessary in that. This will override the Paragraph Style's settings.

I am assuming we are both talking about Publisher.

Thank-you!! Finally have it working. (Publisher v1)