nebulon42
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7 years ago Thanks for noticing! I'm pretty sure there is no specific logic for this, so it is like you say: The value is directly given to Mapnik. All the details come from mapnik-reference, for example see here: https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik-reference/blob/gh-pages/3.0.6/reference.json#L2125
Could you please report this to mapnik-reference?
sommerluk
At https://github.com/mapbox/carto/blob/master/docs/latest.md#text-line-spacing-unsigned it is declared that text-line-spacing is an unsigned value. So negative values are declared is illegal (and I suppose it means also that only integer values are allowed, right?).
However line-spacing at Mapnik at https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/wiki/TextSymbolizer is declared as double.
I’ve tested negative floating point values like “-5.9” in the CartoCSS-Mapnik-combination, and indeed it decreases the baseline-to-baseline distance of the lines.
I do not know how CartoCSS works internally, but I suppose that it forwards simply the value of “text-line-spacing” to the Mapnik counterpart “line-spacing”. So I guess the documentation of CartoCSS should be fixed to allow also negative floating point values for text-line-spacing.