Vertical space not respected in the pdflatex output

2008-10-04 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All, When I insert a vertical space in the beginning of a page, such a vertical space does not appear in the pdflatex output. (Please, see the attached file.) Any ideas? I am using $ rpm -q lyx lyx-1.5.6-2.fc9.i386 $ on Fedora 9 (Linux). Thanks in advance, Paul

Re: Vertical space not respected in the pdflatex output

2008-10-04 Thread rgheck
Paul Smith wrote: Dear All, When I insert a vertical space in the beginning of a page, such a vertical space does not appear in the pdflatex output. (Please, see the attached file.) Any ideas? That's what the protect button is for. This is the difference between \vspace and \vspace* in

Re: Vertical space not respected in the pdflatex output

2008-10-04 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
rgheck wrote: Maybe the protect isn't very clear. Maybe the protect isn't, but the associated tooltip should. Jürgen

Re: Vertical space not respected in the pdflatex output

2008-10-04 Thread Paul Smith
On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 5:34 PM, rgheck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I insert a vertical space in the beginning of a page, such a vertical space does not appear in the pdflatex output. (Please, see the attached file.) Any ideas? That's what the protect button is for. This is the difference

Re: Vertical space not respected in the pdflatex output

2008-10-04 Thread rgheck
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: rgheck wrote: Maybe the protect isn't very clear. Maybe the protect isn't, but the associated tooltip should. I found it slightly misleading, as protect of course has a specific meaning in LaTeX---one that makes little sense there. But I don't have any

Vertical space not respected in the pdflatex output

2008-10-04 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All, When I insert a vertical space in the beginning of a page, such a vertical space does not appear in the pdflatex output. (Please, see the attached file.) Any ideas? I am using $ rpm -q lyx lyx-1.5.6-2.fc9.i386 $ on Fedora 9 (Linux). Thanks in advance, Paul

Re: Vertical space not respected in the pdflatex output

2008-10-04 Thread rgheck
Paul Smith wrote: Dear All, When I insert a vertical space in the beginning of a page, such a vertical space does not appear in the pdflatex output. (Please, see the attached file.) Any ideas? That's what the protect button is for. This is the difference between \vspace and \vspace* in

Re: Vertical space not respected in the pdflatex output

2008-10-04 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
rgheck wrote: Maybe the protect isn't very clear. Maybe the protect isn't, but the associated tooltip should. Jürgen

Re: Vertical space not respected in the pdflatex output

2008-10-04 Thread Paul Smith
On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 5:34 PM, rgheck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I insert a vertical space in the beginning of a page, such a vertical space does not appear in the pdflatex output. (Please, see the attached file.) Any ideas? That's what the protect button is for. This is the difference

Re: Vertical space not respected in the pdflatex output

2008-10-04 Thread rgheck
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: rgheck wrote: Maybe the protect isn't very clear. Maybe the protect isn't, but the associated tooltip should. I found it slightly misleading, as protect of course has a specific meaning in LaTeX---one that makes little sense there. But I don't have any

Vertical space not respected in the pdflatex output

2008-10-04 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All, When I insert a vertical space in the beginning of a page, such a vertical space does not appear in the pdflatex output. (Please, see the attached file.) Any ideas? I am using $ rpm -q lyx lyx-1.5.6-2.fc9.i386 $ on Fedora 9 (Linux). Thanks in advance, Paul

Re: Vertical space not respected in the pdflatex output

2008-10-04 Thread rgheck
Paul Smith wrote: Dear All, When I insert a vertical space in the beginning of a page, such a vertical space does not appear in the pdflatex output. (Please, see the attached file.) Any ideas? That's what the "protect" button is for. This is the difference between \vspace and \vspace* in

Re: Vertical space not respected in the pdflatex output

2008-10-04 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
rgheck wrote: > Maybe the "protect" isn't very clear. Maybe the protect isn't, but the associated tooltip should. Jürgen

Re: Vertical space not respected in the pdflatex output

2008-10-04 Thread Paul Smith
On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 5:34 PM, rgheck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> When I insert a vertical space in the beginning of a page, such a >> vertical space does not appear in the pdflatex output. (Please, see >> the attached file.) Any ideas? > > That's what the "protect" button is for. This is the

Re: Vertical space not respected in the pdflatex output

2008-10-04 Thread rgheck
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: rgheck wrote: Maybe the "protect" isn't very clear. Maybe the protect isn't, but the associated tooltip should. I found it slightly misleading, as "protect" of course has a specific meaning in LaTeX---one that makes little sense there. But I don't have