Re: spacing before/after group of paragraphs.

2019-09-04 Thread Felmon Davis
On Tue, 3 Sep 2019, Beregond, Anders Stenström wrote: Den 2019-09-03 kl. 19:14, skrev Felmon Davis: I can make a 'style' which indents a paragraph say .03" left and right and say .08" above and below. I call this 'text-indent' and when the authors in the volume have extended quotations, I

Re: Captions [was Re: spacing before/after group of paragraphs.]

2019-09-03 Thread Andrew Pitonyak
I define my own variables for counting things such as figures. When you insert a caption, this creates a frame that contains both the figure and the caption. Especially if you have floating figures, this seems like a good idea. First, there are a few times when things go poorly if you let

Re: spacing before/after group of paragraphs.

2019-09-03 Thread Felmon Davis
On Tue, 3 Sep 2019, Beregond, Anders Stenström wrote: Den 2019-09-03 kl. 19:14, skrev Felmon Davis: I can make a 'style' which indents a paragraph say .03" left and right and say .08" above and below. I call this 'text-indent' and when the authors in the volume have extended quotations, I

Captions [was Re: spacing before/after group of paragraphs.]

2019-09-03 Thread W. Robert J. Funnell, Prof.
On Tue, 3 Sep 2019, Andrew Pitonyak wrote: > ... ... It sounds like you might want to add something like "keep > with next paragraph", or something, but, I usually only use that for > things such as captions where I really need to keep the caption with > a figure, table, or code listing. 

Re: spacing before/after group of paragraphs.

2019-09-03 Thread Andrew Pitonyak
I think your new description is very good... I missed the point the first time.  This is how I solve a similar problem using styles. My interest is source code, but, very generically, assume you define three different styles names named something like:  first_quote_par next_quote_par

Re: spacing before/after group of paragraphs.

2019-09-03 Thread W. Robert J. Funnell, Prof.
On Tue, 3 Sep 2019, Felmon Davis wrote: > ... > I can make a 'style' which indents a paragraph say .03" left and right and > say .08" above and below. > > I call this 'text-indent' and when the authors in the volume have extended > quotations, I can format them with a click on the style. > >

Re: spacing before/after group of paragraphs.

2019-09-03 Thread Felmon Davis
On Tue, 3 Sep 2019, Brian Barker wrote: At 17:54 02/09/2019 -0400, Felmon Davis wrote: it's easy to set up a style to indent a paragraph with two line spaces separating it from the rest of the text fore and aft. I'm sorry to have to disappoint you but, although OpenOffice is available for a

Re: spacing before/after group of paragraphs.

2019-09-03 Thread Brian Barker
At 17:54 02/09/2019 -0400, Felmon Davis wrote: it's easy to set up a style to indent a paragraph with two line spaces separating it from the rest of the text fore and aft. I'm sorry to have to disappoint you but, although OpenOffice is available for a range of operating systems, it is not

spacing before/after group of paragraphs.

2019-09-02 Thread Felmon Davis
hello, it's easy to set up a style to indent a paragraph with two line spaces separating it from the rest of the text fore and aft. suppose I want a style that will keep two paragraphs together, separated by one line but separated from the rest by two spaces before and after the couplet.