Lately I've been using OneNote to take meeting notes, project tracking and throw-away to-do lists (like items I need to pack before a trip). For the most part, I like it. It's fast and lets me scrawl notes all over a page in a way that is rivals paper, with the bonus of being legible.
For some unknown reason Microsoft decided that OneNote wasn't deserving of Paragraph formatting. Many of the options from a standard word processor don't translate to OneNote – who needs to set the indentation of a paragraph if you can drag the block of text to the exact position on the page you want? Unfortunately with Paragraph options went the ability to adjust line spacing.
Take a look at some text using the font Impact. Kerning, leading, tracking; it's offensive to every aspect of typography.
Lists fare no better with the bullets nearly overlapping, separated by a mere 2 pixels.
Sadly it seems the only solution for paragraphs is to use a font with 'short' characters, or modify an existing font to increase it's line height.
You do have some options with lists and the Lists palette (Format > Lists) exposes them. Setting 'Between list items' to a value between 2.5pt and 3pt makes quite a difference.
If anyone has found a way around the line spacing issue or has a font that works well I'd love to hear it.
December 4th, 2007 at 1:14 am
[...] Take a look at some text using the font Impact. Kerning, leading, tracking; it's offensive to every … [...]
December 27th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
andale sans seems to have bigger line spacing