Can the line spacing or line height be changed?

Question

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.

Answer 1

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

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.

Answer 2

AFAIK you can affect visible line spacing indirectly by choosing a font with different vertical arrangment. It's not a feature OP is looking for, but should be enough to "just increase the line spacing a bit".

Answer 3

I saved the text file in kate, opened it in LibreOffice, and then used the various "Format" options until the layout looked decent.