On 3/4/19 3:07 PM, John White wrote:
On Thursday, February 7, 2019 2:04:22 AM PST Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
> On 2/7/19 12:35 AM, John White wrote:
> > 2.3.0 on debian stretch. Article class.
> >
> >
> >
> > I love lyx, but for years I have been bothered by its tendency to
> > often put too much blank space between different paragraphs, sections,
> > quotations, etc.
> >
> >
> >
> > Far as I know, the only way to fix this is to insert vertical space,
> > e.g. insert/formating/vertical space/custom -.2 in or some such. Quite
> > time consuming.
> >
> >
> >
> > Anyone know a better way?
>
> It would help if you could post a simple file where this happens.
> Probably this is due to LaTeX adding such space to make the pages all be
> the same length. If you put \raggedbottom in ERT at the start of your
> file, then this will not happen. But the pages will vary in text size.
> See e.g.
>
> https://latex.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4209
>
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/65355/flushbottom-vs-raggedbottom
>
> Riki
Thanks for the tip but \raggedbottom in ERT (or preamble) did not seem
to help. I am attaching an example .lyx file. On my system there is
too much space between paragraphs 2 and 3.
John
John,
If you select View > Code Preview Pane and set the controls in the pane
to pdflatex format and "Body Only" for the view, you will see the
following structure:
\begin{doublespace}
\item That on or about ... Exhibit 5.
\item That on June ... Exhibit 6.
\end{doublespace}
\begin{doublespace}
\item That Joe ... each of . . .
\end{doublespace}
So you somehow dropped out of double spacing after item 2 and resumed it
before item 3. I'm pretty sure that's the culprit. I did Ctrl-A to
select everything, used the paragraph dialog to set default (single)
line spacing and then set double spacing, compiled with pdflatex and the
spacing was fixed.
So the question is, what might you have done to exit and then resume
double spacing? Did you by any chance write the first two items, set the
spacing on them, add the third item and then fix its spacing?
Paul
