Richard,
Thanks for the tip.
The line \parsep\parskip% didn’t work. It removed all spacing between my quote
paragraphs.
But, I combined your suggestion with some other things I’ve tried and came up
with the following that worked:
\renewenvironment{quote}
{\list{}{%
\rightmargin\leftmargin%
\setlength{\parsep}{1em}}%
\item\relax}
{\endlist}
Thanks again.
Virgil
(I really should get a good LaTeX manual)
From: Richard Heck
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 11:52 AM
To: Virgil Arrington
Cc: lyx-users-group
Subject: Re: Paragraph spacing in Quote environment
On 10/19/2011 08:39 AM, Virgil Arrington wrote:
When using the Quote environment with several consecutive paragraphs, I
notice that the paragraph spacing between the Quote paragraphs is narrower than
the paragraph spacing between the Quote paragraphs and the surrounding Standard
paragraphs.
I’d like to widen the spacing between successive Quote paragraphs to make it
the same as the spacing between Standard paragraphs and Quote paragraphs.
Any ideas?
To do this, you will need to modify the quote environment itself. Exactly how
to do this will depend upon what document class you are using, but quote is
generally defined as a list with only one item, e.g., in article.cls:
\newenvironment{quote}
{\list{}{\rightmargin\leftmargin}%
\item\relax}
{\endlist}
Inter-paragraph spacing within the quote is therefore controlled, as you can
see here:
http://latex.computersci.org/Reference/ListEnvironments
by the \parsep length. So, if you are using article (or book, which has the
same declaration), you could try doing something like:
\renewenvironment{quote}
{\list{}{%
\rightmargin\leftmargin%
\parsep\parskip}%
\item\relax}
{\endlist}
I think that will set \parsep to be whatever \parskip is (where that is what
controls paragraph spacing in normal text), but if not, then try:
\parsep\mediumskip, or whatever you have set \parskip to be.
Richard
