Aha! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!
I thought there might be some difference between a regular line return and
a paragraph break, but since the behavior differed only with different
alignments I rejected that hypothesis without looking into it. Actually, I
still don't understand why a justified alignment is treated differently
than any other kind in terms of line spacing, but that might be a decision
by the TeX gods, and I shall not question it any further. I suppose one
line paragraphs is not really a good design choice for me...
While I have you on the line, can I ask a related question? When I have a
paragraph that I want to justify right, but I want the *left* side to be
flush, what sort of TeX-fu am I supposed to invoke? Say for a name and
address I want on the top right hand corner.
Thanks!
--Urijah
Paul A. Rubin wrote:
Urijah Kaplan wrote:
Attached is a sample document, with a pdf (dvipdfm) I made from it.
(Save
As..is grayed out in Yap. Why??)
Don't know why, but that's true here too, and not just for your
document. I'd never noticed it before, because I've never had a reason
to try to save a DVI file from Yap. (The file already exists, else Yap
couldn't be displaying it, and AFAIK Yap cannot modify a file.) To save
a DVI from LyX, you can just use File->Export->DVI.
Here is the outcome
Right--Single--wrong
Justified--Single
Left--Single--wrong
Center--Single--wrong
Justified--Default
Justified--Double
Right--Double
Right--Custom-3
Any thoughts?
I'm pretty sure you're bumping into a LaTeX issue. (Disclaimer: I'm
not a TeXpert, so believe the following at your own peril.) The attached
revision of your file displays the way I think you intended (other than
that the justified/default spaced paragraphs have a somewhat funky
spacing of the first line, which I think would be improved if you turned
off the option to indent the first line of each paragraph).
What's going on is that each of your verses, as typed into your original
document, is actually four paragraphs (one per line). Using default
spacing, and with the setting that paragraphs start with an indented
line rather than with extra vertical space, this works ok, because when
you left-align or justify them each line indents the same amount as its
mates (and of course the indentation is irrelevant when you center- or
right-align).
When you deviate from default spacing, however, LaTeX automatically
inserts some extra vertical space before and after the spacing changes.
Since each line is a new paragraph for you, this extra spacing is
inserted around each line, hence the distinct deviation from
single-spacing in the output.
In the attached version, I merged each verse into a single paragraph by
changing paragraph breaks to line breaks (C-enter rather than enter), as
signified by the arrows at the ends of the lines. The fourth line of
each verse ends with a paragraph break (enter rather than C-enter).
Hope that makes sense.
/Paul
