Matching line spacing?

[olaf willoughby]

Hi there

Can you please help?

Attached are two screenshots. 

 

One: shows the poem with the correct line spacing

Two: shows the problem poem. The line spacing is much too wide.

 

BUT - the control panel settings seem to be exactly the same??

I must be missing something.

 

Question 1: how can I change 'two' to the same spacing as 'one'?

 

Question 2: I also need to make this change to 35 other poems in the book.

Is there a way I can copy the formatting of the poem in 'one' and apply it to the other poems to prevent having to adjust each one manually?

 

Thanks for your help.

 

[walt.farrell]

That looks to me like it could be related to Paragraph settings, not Character settings.

Or it could be related to poem #1 using linefeed between lines and #2 using returns, which would give paragraph breaks.

Showing us the Paragraph panel for each might help. Also, from the menu, Text > Show Special Characters  would be useful to see what characters are used.

If you could share a .afpub file of those two poems that would also help.

[olaf willoughby]

Thank you Walt. The 'Show Special Characters' makes it clear that you are right. 1 = linefeed. 2 = return key.

That gives me a problem of how to equalise the line spacing. I really don't want to retype most of the poems.

Time for a glass of wine and some deep thought!

Meantime thanks once again - much appreciated

[Old Bruce]

21 minutes ago, olaf willoughby said:

I really don't want to retype most of the poems.

Use the GREP feature of the Find.

[jmwellborn]

22 minutes ago, olaf willoughby said:

Thank you Walt. The 'Show Special Characters' makes it clear that you are right. 1 = linefeed. 2 = return key.

That gives me a problem of how to equalise the line spacing. I really don't want to retype most of the poems.

Time for a glass of wine and some deep thought!

Meantime thanks once again - much appreciated

Could you try "Find and Replace?"    Cut and paste the special character symbol for Paragraph (the return key symbol) into FIND, and then cut and paste the special character symbol for Line Return into the REPLACE box, then hit Replace All.    Worth a try!!

[walt.farrell]

12 minutes ago, jmwellborn said:

Could you try "Find and Replace?"    Cut and paste the special character symbol for Paragraph (the return key symbol) into FIND, and then cut and paste the special character symbol for Line Return into the REPLACE box, then hit Replace All.    Worth a try!!

Doesn't require cut and paste. The Find and Replace fields each have a pulldown that lets you enter the special characters directly.

Also, Replace All feels risky. I'd probably do them one by one

[walt.farrell]

40 minutes ago, olaf willoughby said:

That gives me a problem of how to equalise the line spacing. I really don't want to retype most of the poems

An alternative to retyping or Find and Replace might be to select a poem that has the wrong appearance and assign a paragraph style that is defined as having no space between paragraphs.

That might still require a bit of work for poems that have multiple stanzas.

[jmwellborn]

10 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Also, Replace All feels risky. I'd probably do them one by one

There is always EDIT>Undo in case it doesn't work.    Replacing each line would be one whale of a tedium, based on 35 poems!

[fde101]

4 minutes ago, jmwellborn said:

Replacing each line would be one whale of a tedium

When I am faced with something like that, I usually replace the first few one at a time to make sure it is doing what I expect, then hit Replace All to get the rest.

[jmwellborn]

5 minutes ago, fde101 said:

When I am faced with something like that, I usually replace the first few one at a time to make sure it is doing what I expect, then hit Replace All to get the rest.

I subscribe to the old navy saying, "Full speed ahead and d*mn the torpedoes!"    Oh, well.

[DNA0101]

5 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

That looks to me like it could be related to Paragraph settings, not Character settings.

Or it could be related to poem #1 using linefeed between lines and #2 using returns, which would give paragraph breaks.

Showing us the Paragraph panel for each might help. Also, from the menu, Text > Show Special Characters  would be useful to see what characters are used.

If you could share a .afpub file of those two poems that would also help.

Thanks for the clue as I was starting wonder if it was a bug. My font spacing on both font sets were too spread out. Now I can move on... 

[olaf willoughby]

Thanks for your help everyone. I'll experiment on a back up copy over the next day or two but meantime I appreciate your input. Best.