Paul JH Drake wrote:
Hi
I'm currently writing my thesis with Lyx and having some problems with the
spacing of itemised lists. At the moment, lists appear to be automatically
spaced to fill the empty space on a page, so I get some lists that look fine
and others with only 3 items spanning an entire A4 page.
I don't know why the lists should be spaced the way you're describing
--- could it be that they are surrounded by something which must fit on
an entire page by itself (e.g., non-floated graphs or tables)?
I've had a look around for solutions, but haven't found any yet. Does the
enumitem package allow correction of this and if so, how do you install it
for use with Lyx?
I don't know about the enumitem package, but you might try inserting the
following as ERT (Insert -> TeX) in the first item of the list
\addtolength{\itemsep}{-0.6\baselineskip}
Of course, you can change the amount (-0.6) according to your needs.
This allows you to change the spacing between items on a per-list basis,
if you have to do it for the entire document then there's probably a
better way.
Many thanks for your time
Hope this helps. I'm not sure that I understood exactly what the problem
is --- if the above suggestions don't help, perhaps you could attach an
example LyX file in which the problem you're describing occurs? Also,
what version of LyX are you using?
Paul
Dov
