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Can the line spacing or line height be changed?


Is it possible to keep the font the same size and increase the space between lines of text?

I cannot find anything in the configuration settings or in the online handbook.

I'm getting old and have a hard time looking at the code without putting a blank line in between lines, but could get by if I could just increase the line spacing a bit.

If it matters, I'm using Manjaro and KDE. Thank you.


Solution

  • As of Kate 22.12,1 this feature now exists! See Settings > Configure Kate > Appearance for the Line Height Multiplier setting.

    Location of the line height multiplier setting in the Kate settings

    1. This is an upper bound on the version in which the feature was introduced. It may have been added earlier, but I could not find mention of it in a cursory search of the Gitlab issue tracker.