Line spacing

[Jouko]

Couldn't find Line Spacing function. Is it there somewhere hiding or is the function still waiting to be present in future updates? 

Edited January 31, 2019 by Jouko
Found the answer myself (with pride!) to my second question.

[MEB]

Hi Jouko,
Welcome to Affinity Forums
The Line Spacing (Paragraph Leading) control is located in the Paragraph panel (View ▸ Studio ▸ Paragraph). It's the second control on the first column in the Spacing section (called Paragraph Leading). You can also find it in the context toolbar after the Numbered List button (when you have one of the text tools selected: Artistic or Frame Text tool).

[Jouko]

Thanks. I would never have found it myself. There are some minor difficulties learning things, but seems that this application is still quite easy to use and has all the functions I need. I love it!

[Hots]

This doesn't work for me.

I have text that is staying spaced no matter how much I change the line spacing.

Using the Paragraph Leading in Affinity, I can't get the lines any closer than a full line, despite the lines still being far apart with room to scrunch further. (see video)

Compare that with how close Photoshop is able to push the lines together, for a more compact look. (see screenshot with beige background, from PSD)

[thomaso]

It seems you have set a Leading Override in the Character panel. Reset it to "Auto" / or select the field contents and type two round brackets ( ).
Then your Leading in the Paragraph panel will work.

[walt.farrell]

Or, alternatively, perhaps each line is a standalone paragraph, ending with a paragraph break. In Publisher, Text > Show Special Characters will let you see that.

[orangefizz]

Once again I'm confronted with an inexplicable setup in Serif software where even text pasted from a plain text doc has *paragraph* breaks inserted after *every sentence*. I cannot find where to disable this nonsense.

Incredibly frustrating having to come onto forums to find a solution for such a simple thing.

[walt.farrell]

18 minutes ago, orangefizz said:

Once again I'm confronted with an inexplicable setup in Serif software where even text pasted from a plain text doc has *paragraph* breaks inserted after *every sentence*. I cannot find where to disable this nonsensical PITA.

You might provide a sample .txt file that will demonstrate the problem, and tell us which application you're copying it from. And which OS and Affinity app you're using,

[orangefizz]

Text copied directly from TextEdit on a Mac—plain format. I use this for everything to strip formatting from copied text before I use it elsewhere. But Designer is putting in breaks. Even when I manually backspace and hit return, it puts the paragraph break BACK! Huh?

Sorry for the (now edited) post but I'm frustrated because I can't proceed with a project until I figure this out. OS X Catalina, Designer 1.10.6 (fixed)

[orangefizz]

THIS. Why is this not the default?? oml

Thanks for your help Walt.

[Old Bruce]

22 minutes ago, orangefizz said:

Even when I manually backspace and hit return, it puts the paragraph break BACK! Huh?

When you hit return that makes a new paragraph.

[orangefizz]

...which is a modification of the user's action (I didn't ask for a paragraph break). So unless that setting is checked, the default behavior is to prohibit line breaks in favor of paragraph breaks. It's just odd.

[Old Bruce]

1 minute ago, orangefizz said:

(I didn't ask for a paragraph break)

Why then did you hit return? Shift + Return will most likely give you a line break and not a paragraph (in most applications, but not all text editors)..

[loukash]

25 minutes ago, orangefizz said:

Why is this not the default??

Why should it?
The app only does what you tell it to do (well, mostly ). There is no Telepathy plugin included, as far as I know.

So, for example, if you'd like to have a different default format or default text style for the text tool, set it up in a text frame first, then Edit > Defaults > Save.

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, orangefizz said:

THIS. Why is this not the default?? oml

Thanks for your help Walt.

You're welcome.

Still, if that's your problem then you are pasting in text that has multiple paragraphs. If you don't want multiple paragraphs then don't oir in paragraph breaks in the original.

[R C-R]

5 hours ago, orangefizz said:

...which is a modification of the user's action (I didn't ask for a paragraph break).

As @Old Bruce explained, a typed return is a paragraph break -- IOW, it starts a new paragraph.

Also, from your screenshot above, the plain text document does have a number of paragraph breaks in it -- otherwise, after each period, a new sentence would begin on the same line instead of starting a new paragraph below it.

See for instance the attached Plain text with paragraphs.txt example.

[debraspicher]

6 hours ago, orangefizz said:

Text copied directly from TextEdit on a Mac—plain format. I use this for everything to strip formatting from copied text before I use it elsewhere. But Designer is putting in breaks. Even when I manually backspace and hit return, it puts the paragraph break BACK! Huh?

Sorry for the (now edited) post but I'm frustrated because I can't proceed with a project until I figure this out. OS X Catalina, Designer 1.10.6 (fixed)

Plain format can store breaks. Depending on the program, you may be able to turn on a setting to see them.

I typed this in Notepad in Windows and saved as a .txt. I merely hit Enter for each line (including blanks). Reopened in Word and turned on paragraph breaks in settings so I could see where they were. As you can see, it creates breaks: