[Geany-Users] vertical line spacing, line_height, filetypes.common

John Gabriele jgabriele at xxxxx
Sun May 31 23:43:10 UTC 2020


Thanks, Lex. Sorry for the delay. Here's the gist:
https://gist.github.com/uvtc/ae80c71aa46a55660ad17c485a04b6c5
It's in ~/.config/geany/filedefs.

This is Geany 1.36,

    (built on or after 2019-11-20)
    Using GTK+ v3.24.20 and GLib v2.64.2 runtime libraries

Thanks.
-- John


On Fri, May 29, 2020, at 8:14 PM, Lex Trotman wrote:
> On Sat, 30 May 2020 at 09:30, John Gabriele <jgabriele at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, May 29, 2020, at 7:00 PM, Lex Trotman wrote:
> > > On Sat, 30 May 2020 at 08:15, John Gabriele <jgabriele at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I'd like to increase the vertical spacing between lines.
> > > >
> > > > I found this issue <https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/1592>, and so went to "Tools --> Configuration Files --> filetypes.common", but changes I make and save there don't seem to have any effect. So, a few questions:
> > > >
> > > > 1. What is the syntax for this config file? Does a leading space indicate a comment? Do I need the pound sign or remove it?
> > >
> > > # == comment
> >
> > Hi Lex. Thanks.
> >
> > The file is filled with descriptive lines of text, but they are not commented. Is a leading space also considered a comment?
> >
> > > >
> > > > 2. What are the units for the line spacing (line_height). Pixels?
> > >
> > > yes
> > >
> > > >
> > > > 3. How do I get my changes here to take affect?
> > >
> > > Save the filetypes.common opened from the menu above WFM.
> >
> > What does WFM mean?
> 
> Works for me.
> 
> >
> > I've tried changing the settings, uncommenting the `[styling]` marker, changing the font, and restarting Geany, but nothing gets the line spacing to change.
> >
> > This is on Debian Testing, with Geany 1.36.
> >
> > > A quick search for `line_height` finds several issues like this,
> > > https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/2287#issuecomment-610713286
> > > where the exact content is shown.  You probably are missing the
> > > [styling] section.
> >
> > Thanks for the link, and the help, but that doesn't appear to fix it. Any ideas what else could be the issue?
> 
> No, without further information. Maybe attach your filetypes.common,
> or better still put it on a gist (https://gist.github.com/) and mail a
> link so you don't spam everybody with your file.
> 
> Cheers
> Lex
> 
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -- John
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