Line spacing setting not honoured

[J C]

Whatever setting I try making the "line spacing" setting in a theme, it doesn't seem to honour it, instead always having a very tight spacing. I'm running v2.4.6 on Mac 10.12.6, using "Open Sans" typeface. Is it just me?

[Phill (phill-ridout)]

Hi JC.

Thanks for reporting this bug. I tried to replicate it on windows running the latest development version. It seemed to work for me, but I had to use ridiculously large numbers just to see a small change.

Could you try using a small font size and then setting the spacing to 100pt, to see if that makes a difference? You will need to double click on the theme after you have made the change and then reload the song item by sending it live again.

[J C (revjgc)]

I did more playing since reporting this, and discovered that, as @Phill finds, setting it to very large values does work. It's tricky: in traditional typography typefaces and their leading are described like "30/36pt", but modern apps such as Word would regard this as font size "30pt" and line spacing "1.2" or "6pt" after paragraph. So, perhaps it's more of a comment on the need for the documentation to reflect this, and the default settings when making a new Theme are more sensible. Currently they are "Size 40pt" and "Line Spacing 0pt".