21.1.2.2.12 spcPts

This element specifies the amount of white space that is to be used between lines and paragraphs in the form of a text point size. The size is specified using points where 100 is equal to 1 point font and 1200 is equal to 12 point.

[Example: Consider the DrawingML shown below.

<p:txBody>
  …
  <a:p>
    <a:pPr …>
      <a:spcBef>
        <a:spcPts val="1400"/>
      </a:spcBef>
    </a:pPr>
    …
    <a:t>Sample Text</a:t>
    …
  </a:p>
  …
</p:txBody>

The above paragraph of text is formatted to have a spacing before the paragraph text. This spacing is a size of 14 points due to val=“1400”. end example]

Attributes

val (Value)

Specifies the size of the white space in point size. Whole points are specified in increments of 100 starting with 100 being a point size of 1. For instance a font point size of 12 would be 1200 and a font point size of 12.5 would be 1250.

The possible values for this attribute are defined by the ST_TextSpacingPoint simple type (20.1.10.78).

[Note: The W3C XML Schema definition of this element’s content model (CT_TextSpacingPoint) is located in A.4.1. end note]