<spcPts> (Spacing Points)

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: 
<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 will be formatted to have a spacing before the paragraph text. This spacing will be a size of 14 points due to <val="1400">. ]

Parent Elements

<lnSpc> (§5.1.5.2.5); <spcAft> (§5.1.5.2.8); <spcBef> (§5.1.5.2.9)

Attributes

Description

<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 (§5.1.12.78).

The following XML Schema fragment defines the contents of this element:

<complexType name="CT_TextSpacingPoint">
	<attribute name="val" type="ST_TextSpacingPoint" use="required"/>
</complexType>