This is a bit perplexing and, since a picture is worth a thousand words, I'm attaching a screen shot. Now, I made NO spacing changes (to my knowledge) to the text. You will notice the spacing between the two paragraphs at the top (which is actually what I want) and the "spacing" (or lack of) between the two paragraphs below. I searched the options and none made sense to me to fix it. Any clues to how to fix it or why it appears different between top and bottom. By way of more info, the entire document has the lower (no) spacing between paragraphs. I use Scribus 1.6.4 on a MacBook.
most likely the text has an extra return in it hence the blank line.
From the drop down menu select View/Text Frames and see if Show Control Character is checked, if not select it. back to the text frame. is there a blank line? with just a line break symbol?
I did that and it does not show an extra space. However, I "want" the extra space as shown on the upper one and simply cannot figure out where to adjust space between paragraphs. Looking at the edit via story editor, it shows all of them as "default paragraph"?
Can you attach a sample document? time to look at directly.