Line spacing is one of the main tools in typography. What follows is the results of my experiments to recreate that knowledge.

The central mystery is: how does Writer control line-spacing by default? Until you know, working with its line-spacing tools requires guesswork. Somewhere in the transitions from a private company to Sun Microsystem's property to a free software project, exact knowledge of the line-spacing tools was lost. However, by far the least understood of these high-end tools is Writer's ability to adjust line-spacing. For this reason, it includes a number of tools for tweaking lines of text, including Tools > Language > Hyphenation and the tools for adjusting character width and letter space for individual characters. Designed to write long documents, Writer is in many ways a document processor comparable to FrameMaker, suitable for designing books and dissertations while falling short of a complete desktop publishing solution. The fact that Writer is more than a word processor is an open secret.

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