My Leading Override feature is not working!

[WestCoastPDX]

Hey, awesome community members! 

I would love to be able to use Leading Override feature ( in 

Text/Character) HOWEVER, it doesn't work either in AD or in AP! What can I do to make it work? 

[R C-R]

The Character Panel help topic says

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Leading Override—applies local override to selected text to increase the leading with regard to the paragraph’s leading.

"Local" means for selected text in a paragraph, so for example when I select the word "HOWEVER" & increase its leading override to something greater than the paragraph leading, I get something like this:

Are you not seeing something similar?

[WestCoastPDX]

Yes, but it does NOTHING when I try to use the feature! Nada at all

[MikeA]

On 7/26/2019 at 1:25 PM, WestCoastPDX said:

Yes, but it does NOTHING when I try to use the feature! Nada at all

I’ve been struggling with this feature myself today. I've used plenty of text "setting" system, ranging from photo-typesetting hardware to page composition programs. This is the first time I've encountered such a thing as "Leading Override" in software and have found it pretty confusing. I'm about to make a new post about it and hope that someone will be able to steer me in the right direction.

It does work . . . but how it works seems very strange indeed.

[R C-R]

46 minutes ago, MikeA said:

This is the first time I've encountered such a thing as "Leading Override" in software and have found it pretty confusing.

It is probably confusing mostly because it is implemented not as a paragraph attribute but as a 'local' character attribute, even though it affects everything on the same line of text as the character(s) the override is applied to.

IOW, leading override is really a text line attribute, but since in Affinity there is no separate text line attribute panel it is included in the character one.

[Old Bruce]

Leading is a Paragraph attribute and as such is applied to an entire line of text. The override is there for the rare situation when you have a glyph that has ascenders or decenders which will cover the line above or below it (for situations where the descender is causing problems you would need to choose the line below). If you want to change the vertical location of a word or character use the Baseline Shift for that instance.

[R C-R]

32 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

(for situations where the defender is causing problems you would need to choose the line below).

Dang those pesky defenders! 😈

[Old Bruce]

1 minute ago, R C-R said:

Dang those pesky defenders! 😈

I fixed them, I fixed them good!

[CameronQ]

I can't seem to make an adjustment to the leading override setting. I make the adjustment in the text style panel Paragraph > Spacing > Leading but the change I make doesn't do anything. The leading in one paragraph style is different to a second paragraph style even though the leading setting is the same. The Leading Override setting is different but I can't seem to adjust that so they are the same.

Edited September 24, 2020 by CameronQ

[Old Bruce]

1 hour ago, CameronQ said:

I can't seem to make an adjustment to the leading override setting. I make the adjustment in the text style panel Paragraph > Spacing > Leading but the change I make doesn't do anything. The leading in one paragraph style is different to a second paragraph style even though the leading setting is the same. The Leading Override setting is different but I can't seem to adjust that so they are the same.

Leading is a Paragraph attribute, the Leading Override is a Character attribute.

Plus check to see if the two Paragraph Styles are set to honour Align to Baseline.

[CameronQ]

Thanks!

 

[spidermurph]

There seems to be an issue with text boxes that have been copied and pasted from another document.

I am working on a design for a DVD inlay and now need to make it for Bluray.

If I copy a text box from one open Publisher window to another the leading is locked in both character and paragraph panels.

[Old Bruce]

2 hours ago, spidermurph said:

If I copy a text box from one open Publisher window to another the leading is locked in both character and paragraph panels.

I have never seen this behaviour. Is it in fact text or has it been converted to curves? Check the layers panel to see if it is text or curves. Are you using the text Caret to select the text (paragraphs)?