You're lucky (and smart): you've apparently figured out how that inexplicably arcane and byzantine system works. Name me any other graphics program that makes you jump through hoops like that just to set a line of type? Photoshop? Illustrator? GIMP? Blender? Krita? Scribus? LibreOffice? Microsoft Office? I can't understand how you're defending it, bright as you are. I remember screwing with that voodoo about clicking this icon then that icon while saying an incantation and holding a chicken's foot. It in itself is not an acceptable solution. It is an acceptable price to pay, and I'm being generous. You have grown used to it over the years. The 0.92.x system for text styling is a Chinese water torture. Gee, om the way you describe it, it sure seems like it. The outer style overrides the inner style. Then de-activate Tt (outer) and edit the text normally. If that does not resolve the issue, activate the Tt button ("outer" text style) and set the font height to something small and linespacing to something small and click the questionmark. So, here is how I manage it, if the line height cannot be reduced sufficiently by the numeric entry/spinbox: Try clicking the question-mark (un-set variable inline height). De-activate the Tt button and continue to compose. Remedy: Activate the Tt button, select all characters in the active block and set the type size to 2px, AND set the lines-spacing to zero. A character or space in the "Outer Text Style" is set to a larger size, and/or the line-spacing is set to a larger height. Remedy: select all characters in the active block and click the question-mark. The line-spacing of a character or space is set to a larger height.
Remedy: select all characters in the active block and select the desired type size. It could be: A character or space in the line is set to a larger size. If the line-spacing cannot be reduced to zero, some line-height or text-size is preventing it. Really? More than 2000? Can you point me to where these 2000+ may be found/downloaded? 'Cos I'm gonna count 'em! And are you sure they all are rendered useless in the new 1.0 release? TylerDurden
9xx versions and learning how to deal with the line spacing.
If you want full access to extensions created over the past decade, stick with a. created by thousands of 3rd party developers, go for the beta. If you don't want to use extensions like laser tools, cad tools, plotting, grids, export tools, etc. Use the Tt button to reset the outer style if line-spacing isn't behaving. I suggest ensuring the Tt button is de-activated when composing text.
Last thing: visit this topic here on the forums and help test Inkscape! Even in 1.0beta text still has its issues with the Text and Font panel. I could never understand why text manipulation has always been so difficult in Inkscape.
In any case, difficult or not, that "?" icon and its sister to the left, the "TT" icon were useless, unnecessarily complicated and confusing. I could have said "navy" or "midnight" if I didn't care to be so specific about the color. And I'm sure you know that's wasn't the only way to express that line of type. P.mary Īn idiot like myself ? can bang that out in 30 seconds. I want, for example, two lines of text to say "Mary had a little lamb, her fleece was white as snow", justified left, 18pt on 21pt, color a dark blue-green, hopefully in Palatino if the user has it. That said, how does that fact complicate anything? Actually, as you probably know, it's pretty straightforward. Of course Inkscape line spacing (CSS line-height) is dictated by CSS rules, because Inkscape is an SVG editor, like (for example) Adobe Illustrator is a PostScript editor or Google's WebDesigner is an HTML editor. Thanks, Tyler Durden, for pressing my buttons.