diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 187b07f5..94d779e3 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -211,6 +211,13 @@ follow semantic versioning; release dates are ISO 8601.
 
 ### Documentation
 
+- **The authoring cheatsheet stops describing `lineSpacing` as a multiple.** Its
+  address-block recipe passed `1.3` and explained it as overriding a default of `1.0` —
+  the reading a CSS `line-height` invites, and the one the number itself suggests.
+  `lineSpacing` is extra space in **points**, defaulting to `0`: a paragraph grows by
+  `(lines - 1) × spacing`, so `1.3` bought a little over one point of air rather than
+  30% more leading, and there was no `1.0` default to override. The recipe now passes a
+  value that does what the prose beside it promises, and the page states the unit.
 - **The chart recipe documents the styling surface it has.** Five settings were named
   nowhere on the page — the three text styles, the donut centre style and the bar width
   ratio — four of them already load-bearing in the flagship examples that put a chart on
diff --git a/docs/templates/v1-classic/authoring.md b/docs/templates/v1-classic/authoring.md
index 4dbb95c2..ee5d9e38 100644
--- a/docs/templates/v1-classic/authoring.md
+++ b/docs/templates/v1-classic/authoring.md
@@ -181,15 +181,22 @@ you cheap forks. To brand for your project, hand-build a
 The soft panel sits flush against the accent stripe — round only the
 **right** corners so the join is clean.
 
-### 6.2 Address blocks with `lineSpacing(1.3)`
+### 6.2 Address blocks with `lineSpacing(3)`
 
 ```java
 .addParagraph(p -> p.text(joinAddress(party))
     .textStyle(theme.text().body())
-    .lineSpacing(1.3)               // default 1.0 squashes \n-joined lines
+    .lineSpacing(3)                 // 3pt of air; the default 0 packs \n-joined lines
     .margin(DocumentInsets.zero()))
 ```
 
+`lineSpacing` is **extra space in points**, not a multiple of the font size:
+the paragraph's height grows by `(lines - 1) × spacing`. The default is `0`,
+so an address joined with `\n` renders on consecutive baselines with no extra
+gap between them — the font's own line height and nothing added. Two or three
+points is usually enough to separate the lines without opening a gap that
+reads as a paragraph break.
+
 ### 6.3 Two-column block via `addRow` with weights
 
 ```java
@@ -337,7 +344,7 @@ public final class StatusReportTemplateV1 implements StatusReportTemplate {
                         .addParagraph(p -> p.text("Summary").textStyle(theme.text().h2()))
                         .addParagraph(p -> p.text(spec.summary())
                                 .textStyle(theme.text().body())
-                                .lineSpacing(1.3)))
+                                .lineSpacing(3)))
 
                 // Metrics table — themed header + zebra + total row + repeating header
                 .addTable(table -> {