On 3/7/19 3:09 PM, John White wrote:
Hi Paul and thanks much.
Changing the text to single space and then changing back to double
space works! This is much faster than putting in -.2 or -3 in the
custom vertical space dialog box before each offending extra-space.
Seems to me that in the 10 years or so that I have been using lyx I
should have discovered this earlier on my own. Mea Culpa.
BUT, it sure seems to me that we should not need to go from Double
Space to Single Space and then back again just to ensure even spacing
between paragraphs. I generally make quotations single space and
normal argument in double space. Going from one to the other in a
draft risks confusion in the final document.
Do you think I should enter a bug report? I don't recall having ever
done one, but suppose I could figure it out.
John
I think you said you were using LyX 2.3.0? I would first upgrade to
2.3.2 and see if the problem can be reproduced (by which I mean you can
enter a new document and create the same problem).
I've tried to reproduce your example here from scratch (in 2.3.2), but
have not found a way to do it. Any time I add an item to a double spaced
list, change between Enumerate and Enumerate-Resume, or try any other
sequence that comes to mind, LyX 2.3.2 spots the consecutive
double-spacing environments and merges them. So it's possible that
whatever editing sequence got you into this mess no longer does so. That
won't fix old files that have the back-to-back line spacing environments
-- your test file has the extra space when I compile it -- but if its
very difficult/impossible to create the problem going forward, I'm not
sure it's worth a bug report.
Paul
