---
title: usesFontLeading
framework: appkit
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: appkit/nsatstypesetter/usesfontleading
---

# usesFontLeading

A Boolean value controlling whether the typesetter uses the leading (or line gap) value specified in the font metric information.

## Declaration

```swift
var usesFontLeading: Bool { get set }
```

## See Also

### Accessing the layout manager

- [layoutManager](appkit/nsatstypesetter/layoutmanager.md)
- [typesetterBehavior](appkit/nsatstypesetter/typesetterbehavior.md)
- [hyphenationFactor](appkit/nsatstypesetter/hyphenationfactor.md)
- [bidiProcessingEnabled](appkit/nsatstypesetter/bidiprocessingenabled.md)