So I looked this up but couldn’t find anything (probably doesn’t exist) but for multi-line text, the spacing between lines are too spaced out.
i know you can do .newText individually but that’s just inefficient.
anyone know how to do this?
Hi, I haven’t found anything that allows setting spacing, but on the bright side, according to the Corona roadmap, the text module is up for a revamp this year 
Ha lol
Out of all the things Corona can do, it can’t do line spacing 
There is the relatively new font metrics api which could be used to get info which can be used.
Then looping through rows and adding a new text object for each row, placing it according to metrics or desired distance.
It’s doable but not optimal.
I think it is important to remember that corona is primarily a game engine more than a business app engine.
But since I am currently developing the latter, i get where you come from mate
Corona does not support line spacing.
Rob
Hi Rob,
I’m not sure I understand what you mean by that.
If I create a text object and with text “Hello There\nMy Dear Friend”, it will split for two lines.
By line spacing I understood the space between these two lines.
There is no way to set this line spacing but I was hoping the updated api which I read is in the pipeline for this year, could perhaps open up for that.
Could you elaborate please?
anaqim
I was answering @JoePringles. Corona currently does not support a way to control the line spacing. I can’t commit to what changes may or may not be in future updates.
Rob
Hi, I haven’t found anything that allows setting spacing, but on the bright side, according to the Corona roadmap, the text module is up for a revamp this year
Ha lol
Out of all the things Corona can do, it can’t do line spacing
There is the relatively new font metrics api which could be used to get info which can be used.
Then looping through rows and adding a new text object for each row, placing it according to metrics or desired distance.
It’s doable but not optimal.
I think it is important to remember that corona is primarily a game engine more than a business app engine.
But since I am currently developing the latter, i get where you come from mate
Corona does not support line spacing.
Rob
Hi Rob,
I’m not sure I understand what you mean by that.
If I create a text object and with text “Hello There\nMy Dear Friend”, it will split for two lines.
By line spacing I understood the space between these two lines.
There is no way to set this line spacing but I was hoping the updated api which I read is in the pipeline for this year, could perhaps open up for that.
Could you elaborate please?
anaqim
I was answering @JoePringles. Corona currently does not support a way to control the line spacing. I can’t commit to what changes may or may not be in future updates.
Rob