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I have a numbered list. I want line spacing between the numbered paragraphs to be 1.5, and the spacing within the numbered paragraph to be 1.0. However, when the text in a numbered paragraph exceeds one line the second and subsequent line in the paragraph are spaced a 1.5.
iMac with Retina 5K display, OS X El Capitan (10.11.4), MacBook Air, Apple TV v2
For each numbered list item, select that text, and then set your line spacing to 1.0 - Single. At the end of each numbered list item, set your After Paragraph line spacing to 1.5 times your font size. In the following example, the text is 16 pt Baskerville Regular. The line spacing between the individual lines of the numbered paragraph is set to 1.0 - Single. The line spacing (After Paragraph) setting between the numbered paragraphs is set to 150% of the font size, or 24 pt.
For each numbered list item, select that text, and then set your line spacing to 1.0 - Single. At the end of each numbered list item, set your After Paragraph line spacing to 1.5 times your font size. In the following example, the text is 16 pt Baskerville Regular. The line spacing between the individual lines of the numbered paragraph is set to 1.0 - Single. The line spacing (After Paragraph) setting between the numbered paragraphs is set to 150% of the font size, or 24 pt.
To impose a hanging indent in your numbered paragraphs, place the insertion point before the paragraph text, and press option+tab.
Your idea works, but it certainly seems like an cumbersome solution to have to make this font change at the end of every paragraph in a list, and it is not possible in the example below:
I think I might have been using the wrong term "hanging indent". What I meant was spacing between a numbered or bulleted list.
I believe the term I should have used is Block Indentation.
What I described in my previous post(s) is a word processing solution meant for document interchange/printing, and not text formatting destined for a web page. One can tailor web text to appear typeset when using a proper web authoring tool, and the CSS3 style metrics that allow for text and line height settings.
If you were expecting to apply inter-paragraph line-spacing, and intra-paragraph line spacing here in this community editor, it won't happen when pasted from Pages. That is why I used a screen capture of the Pages content.
Hi Jim,
You do not have to make the change for each paragraph.
Select all items in the list, then open the Text formatting Inspector, click the disclosure triangle beside "Line Spacing" to show the before and after paragraph options, and enter the settings shown in Viking's post (or, if you decide that spacing is too wide, use a smaller value for the 'after paragraph' setting, as I have here (type size is 11 point):
Regards,
Barry
I think this is where I write 500 times on the blackboard that “I must select all involved paragraphs before applying after paragraph line spacing.” Thanks Barry for the reminder. 😉
How do I create a hanging indent in Pages?
