No line height! - very troubling

[Thomahawk]

I just came across something very odd. (I am using Publisher 1.7.1 German).

Line Height does not work!

What I used all that time aas line height, really is something called "distance correction" - no Idea what it is for. When today, I found the real line height setting, I noted that it had no effect whatsoever. All text stay mashed together on one line (see first screenshot). It is ONLY after I set a value in "distance correction", when the text lines became separated.

 

[walt.farrell]

In English that field is "leading override", and it is used to override the distance between lines that the font designer specified.

I think it is quite appropriate that Publisher believed your setting, and I don't think I see a Publisher bug here. The leading override will be automatically set to a default value specified by the font designer, and will typically be a value slightly larger than the font size. So the real question may be how it got set to 0 for you.

[thomaso]

You should get aware of fundamental differences between settings in paragraph panel towards character panel. Whereas paragraph panel settings affects the complete paragraph you may assign differing settings (as kind of exception / Ausnahme, "Korrektur") which affect only a specific text selection, for instance the "leading" (= Zeilenabstand) of one selected line within a paragraph (which still has its leading).

So, if the leading in character panel is set to 0, as in your screenshot, then it doesn't not work but shows what it should.

 

[Thomahawk]

Thanks for the explanations. 

Why It get to 0?  Because I tried if line height has any effect at all. It does not. Its not important if that override has any value. Line height does nothing.

So this is clearly a bug. 

At best you can say, okay, the German version of leading override is badly named. Still does not explain why the main leading setting in top bar has no effect at all.

[thomaso]

23 minutes ago, Thomahawk said:

Why It get to 0?  Because I tried if line height has any effect at all. It does not.

Didn't your screenshot show your experience that setting 0 indeed does have an effect?

Or, asked different: Don't both, leading (Zeilenabstand) + leading override (Abstandskorrektur), in my screenshots above obviously do work?

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, Thomahawk said:

Line height does nothing.

So this is clearly a bug. 

Line height (really, font size) does have an effect, if you don't override it manually using the leading override.

If you don't want to override it, don't change that field in the character or paragraph panel. Just let Publisher set the defaults.