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Sheba2

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.

AdmFubar

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?
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Sheba2

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"?

AdmFubar

Can you attach a sample document? time to look at directly.
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Sheba2

It has been awhile and I am finally getting back to trying to learn Scribus and am still having the issue posted about here. I am attaching three screenshots--one of the first page showing a bit of space (but not a full space) between paragraphs - which is what I want. Another shows subsequent paragraphs with no extra space and the last which shows the "story editor" indicating the same "default paragraph." I'm perplexed. I hope they come through good. I did go to the properties pallet and was able to find/fix "padding" issue, but did not find spacing between paragraphs listed. Any help is greatly appreciated.

utnik

hi sheba

it looks as some direct formatting overrides the style settings. but without a sample document it's just guessing in the dark... (you could reduce the document to the paragraphs shown in your screenshot of the story editor and upload this minimal .sla file.)
did you ever check the control characters as recommended by admfubar?

utnik

AdmFubar

There is another possibility, it could be a bad font. Have you tried using a different one?
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