Line Height Property in Word is not preserved

[witia1990]

Hi,
I am building flare topic to MS WORD and I came across the following issue.
Line height property in MadCap that I set to 1.15em is not preserved by WORD's line spacing attribute.
It should look like this:

interlinia.jpg

But unfortunately, the result is like this:

interlinia_zla.jpg

Has anyone got any idea why the conversion of this basic property is not preserved in WORD output?

Kind Regards,
Witold

[robdocsmith]

Hi Witold,

I think this is because you can't specify line spacing in em measurements in Word.
When you set line-height in points, the measurement is carried over correctly.
You'll have to approximate what the em measurement will be in points.

There's a handy table at https://reeddesign.co.uk/test/points-pixels.html though naturally em width will vary depending on your font.

Hope that helps,
Rob

[witia1990]

I think this is because you can't specify line spacing in em measurements in Word

I thought that 'Multiple' option of Line spacing corresponds to ems.

Line height.png

But all in all thanks for the advice, it will be some kind of a workaround .

[robdocsmith]

Hey,

No, the line spacing multiple means literally that, 1.15 times the single line spacing, which is expressed in points. So there's no conversion between a css definition in ems and the Word line spacing.

Cheers,
Rob