On 2009-06-12, Pauli Virtanen wrote:

> Hi,

> I see sphinx.sty specifies

>       \parskip = 2mm

> This is bad, since keeping the parskip *exactly* at 2mm prevents Latex 
> from adjusting the whitespaces when it detects widow and orphan lines. 
> Could this be replaced with an elastic space,

>       \parskip = 2mm plus 2mm minus 0mm

> or something similar?

Hardcoding this is also bad because it leads to uwanted spacing e.g. in lists

http://dante.ctan.org/CTAN/info/l2tabu/english/l2tabuen.pdf

In case you prefer some additional space between paragraphs to paragraph
indent for marking the start of a new paragraph (‘zero paragraph indent’)
do *not* use 

  \setlength{\parindent}{0pt}
  \setlength{\parskip}{\baselineskip}

\parskip should not be used as it will also modify settings for list
environments, table of contents, etc., and headings. 

The parskip.sty package, however, as well as the KOMA-Script classes go
to some lengths to avoid these side effects:

- \parindent = 0mm
- \parskip = 2mm
+ \RequirePackage{parskip}

Günter


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