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Beginners' Questions Paragraph spacing
  1. #1
    Drew Drew @Drew

    How to varying paragraph spacing?

  2. #2
    brynn brynn @brynn
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    Welcome to the forum!

    Inkscape doesn't really have special spacing for paragraphs.  I can think of a couple of different ways to do it.  Personally, at my age, I simply double-space to make a paragraph, because that's what you did when I first learned to type (almost 50 years ago).  Or you could use Guides in Inkscape, and snap your text to the guides.  That way you could have custom spacing.

    http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Snapping.html#Snapping-Guide

  3. #3
    Drew Drew @Drew

    Thanks for your reply and suggestions. Perhaps they may do something in an update that will make it easier, like exporting to CYMK as well. I will just create backgrounds and graphis in Inkscape and import into Scribus for the time being. Scibus is a bit unwieldy as well, but they are free so can't complain too much. Thanks again.

  4. #4
    ian ian @Ianp5a

    I haven't found a way. A blank line between paragraphs is sometimes too much waste of space. So you can either give the blank line a very small font size, or make the first space in the next line a much larger font size and skip the blank line. 
    E.G
    Paragraph 1
    Paragraph 2 with no extra spacing
    Paragraph 3 with extra large space

    Paragraph 4 with blank line
     

  5. #5
    n0r Star n0r Star @og.n0rstar

    there isn't a way to achieve that through the CSS or XML ?

    I'm neither a novice or a beginner at either, but I'm sure someone savvy in those disciplines could shell out an easy answer to this...

    and speaking of easy, I just decided instead of googoo... ing... trial & error CSS and XML elements, to just create seperate text boxes and as previously mentioned, let snapping do the aligning. A Ham Fisted solution, but for me it was effective and easy as a few key strokes.

    Cheers!

  6. #6
    Paddy_CAD Paddy_CAD @Paddy_CAD
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    Select your paragraphs and open the Align and Distribute panel [shift+ctrl+a].

    [Grid]
        [Columns: 1]
        [Set spacing: Yes]
        [Y: 20] [px]
    [Align]
        [Relative to: Last selected]
        [Align left edges]