Smaller body text gaps possible?

When I type a long text, I usually break it into smaller parts with an empty line in between. That empty line should be narrower than the line height of the text, all the gap between the text sections should be the same. (The following gap is a typical example, which I would like to be narrower).

Is it possible to have a line height of let’s say 14 px, but a gap height of 10 px, without having to change the gap height every time manually? I tried with space before and space after, but there should be negative values to make that correction.

Am I missing something? Help is very much appreciated. Thanks

Chris

I guess @chrisMF you could seperate the text paragraphs into Text Box(es) and then adjust the space between the Text Box containers to mimic 10px separation between paragraphs?

For me I would stick to the Line Height assigned (unless I’m doing some fancy stuff) just to allow a good “pause” (white space) between paragraphs of text.

Thanks FF for your reply. I know that I’m a little bit on the weak side with my idea, but it depends a lot on the paragraph lenght. The idea with separate boxes is even more time consuming than what I do at the moment: Go to each white line and adjust it. But probably I just have to get used to the many wide empty lines.

Would setting the Space After Paragraph box to 10px do the trick, or am I misunderstanding your question?

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Bingo! That is exactly what I was looking for. When I press return it makes a given (eg 10 px) brake line, shift-return is a new line without space.

Thank you very much for this time saving hint.

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