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Overspaced paragraphs [duplicate]
\documentclass[12pt, a4paper]{book}%, oneside
\begin{document}
\chapter{Current Approach}\label{chap:background}
\pagebreak
\section{Approximation}
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Space between paragraphs (local)
I would like to increase the space between two paragraphs only, not for the whole document. For example I want to have something like this
Paragraph1: One paragraph here
Paragraph2: Space between ...
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Is there an alternative to LaTeX which isn't whitespace sensitive?
I have been using LaTeX for about a year now, and I quite like it.
However, I like to space out my source code. In most languages, this doesn't cause an issue,
as extra newlines don't affect meaning.
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Better vertical space between paragraphs and centered tabular or figure
When I need to place a tabular or figure inside a paragraph (usually in exams or class notes) I use {\par\centering <tabular>/<figure>\par} because center environment uses too much ...
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Paragraph Spacing within a Tikz Environment
I am looking to replicate the look of paragraphs within a tikz environment (actually a minipage).
\documentclass[letterpaper,12pt]{book}
\usepackage{tikz}
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Variable white space between paragraphs
I am having trouble finding out why the white space between my paragraphs is variable. Sorry, I am not allowed to post images but sometimes there is no white space (like it should be), just an indent ...
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\addtolength{\leftskip}{2em} does not apply to equations in the paragraph
I have a paragraph which should be emphasized using left and right skips. Thereby I recognized that it simply ignores equations in this paragraph. Is this reasonable?
\documentclass{article}
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Inserting automatic vertical space between blocks when \obeylines is active
Sometimes as I write a manuscript in LaTeX for speaking, I want to format parts
of it as \obeylines and \obeyspaces permit, so that a single coherent thought
is expressed compactly on each line, and ...
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Indent Theorem like \hangindent, but for multiple paragraphs
I would like to create a theorem style which indents the theorem exactly like a \hangindent would do, expect that the indention should continue for all paragraphs of the theorem.
For example:
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Add \par only if last paragraph did not end with displayed math
Background:
I have named "sections" (sections for rest of this question) which are conditionally displayed or suppressed based on parameters. To simplify the test case below, these are controlled by ...
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How do I insert an empty line? [duplicate]
How can I add an empty line between to paragraphs, thus separating them more strongly?
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Annoying paragraph spacing issue with memoir
I have a spacing issue while using the memoir class. The main problem is that after the first paragraph there is a line skip and an indentation and afterwards, all the paragraphs are indented properly ...
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How does \\ suppress spurious spaces while \par\noindent doesn't
I'm trying to build a description-list-with-header-line by using a macro. In the non-MWE, the macro adds additional value like index entries and margin notes, but here I have the simplest case ...
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Different vertical spacing (parskip) between concurrent section titles and paragraphs
I'm trying to remove the spacing between section headings, but maintain the paragraph to section heading spacing.
Even though I set titlespacing before and after to *0, there is still spacing - quite ...
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Flexible vspace
I created a macro to insert diary-like right-aligned paragraphs.
\newcommand{\diarydate}[1]{\begin{flushright}\textit{#1}\end{flushright}}
Example:
\diarydate{New York, August 1992}
This looks ...
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Space Above Equations [duplicate]
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Vertical spacing before and after equation environment: empty line or not?
I am using iPython Notebooks and a utility called nbconvert to translate notebooks into LaTeX. ...
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Octavo environment stanza break spacing
In the octavo document-class, there is (as in many others) a verse environment for the setting of poetry; however, breaking stanzas appears to be unimplemented: there's no difference in vertical ...
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Empty line between paragraphs [duplicate]
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Is there an easy way to have my whole document with a space between paragraphs rather than indentation?
Adding an empty line between paragraphs does not work, \newline ...
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Making mdframed paragraph behave like normal paragraphs in terms of spacing
I'm using the mdframed package to highlight a paragraph with rules on both sides. However, the mdframed-environment creates a box for the paragraph inside of it and so the spacing around it is ...
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Vertical spacing for paragraph environment
When I use \paragraph{...}, the vertical spaces in general are too big. I need to manually put \vspace{-5em} in front to adjust the spacing. It is not robust and unnatural. One reason may be that I ...
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Empty sections cannot be broken, making page look stretched out
This is almost duplicate to question Random unwanted space between paragraphs but I don't even use \par.
I'm using pdflatex to compile a .tex file. As I wrote my text I noticed a sudden change in how ...
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Getting the interlinear spacing correct within a paragraph when using minipages
Let me start by saying that this is very similar to a previously posted question, How to keep a constant baselineskip when using minipages (or \parboxes)?, for which egreg gave a very nice solution. ...
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Newline, indentation, parskip - when to use what in what stylistic manner?
I intend to use scrbook. In real-life literature, English and German language, the text often looks like this:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod ...
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space between paragraph and list
In this code, I'm confused about why the space between First paragraph and Second paragraph is not equal to the space between Second paragraph and First bullet. How can I make them equal?
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paragraph spacing [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Space after section
\documentclass[12pt]{book}
\usepackage{geometry}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\setlength{\parskip}{5cm}
\setlength{\parindent}{2pt}
\begin{document}
How to ...
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Single paragraph with styling and larger \parskip
I'd like to use something like this:
{\bfseries\small Some text here...\setlength{\parskip}{1em}}
More text here in the next paragraph...
In order to increase the spacing after a single paragraph, ...
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Identical vertical spacing between paragraphs of different textsize
Something that happens to me very often is that I change the size of certain formula-like material (something close to but not identical to pseudocode in my case) but get inconsistent vertical ...
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Environments with thmtools => too much space if using itemize at the end (also problem with q.e.d. symbol)
I want to use the thmtools package, because it provides some awesome features for declaring environments (proofs, theorems, examples etc.)
And I especially like the "qed" feature which places some ...
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A small inline graphic
Let's say I have the following text (a part of a paragraph):
hello world
I want to be able to typeset a small star/smiley/whatever graphic in between these two words. This graphic should of course ...
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mdframed is causing wrong alignment at the bottom of pages
If you would be so kind to compile this LaTeX document:
\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{book}
\usepackage[paper=a4paper,twoside=true,lmargin=4cm,
rmargin=4cm,bindingoffset=0cm]{geometry}
...
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Making sure that text is aligned between bottoms (and tops) of pages
Here is a LaTeX document:
\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{book}
\usepackage[paper=a4paper,twoside=true,lmargin=4cm,
rmargin=4cm,bindingoffset=0cm]{geometry}
\begin{document}
Lorem ipsum dolor sit ...
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Preserve vertical spacing between paragraphs in different pages
I am trying to include some vertical spacing between two lines. In the example below, the space between questions 2 and 3 should have been the same as between 1 and 2. However, as you can see in this ...
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Border on top of paragraph
I am trying to put a line over a paragraph in LaTeX.
I tried this code:
\noindent\makebox[\linewidth]{\rule{\textwidth}{2pt}}
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Changing vertical space between paragraphs globally
To obtain space between paragraphs I'm currently using \medskip. (I'm not using the parksip package as this gave me problems with space when writing lists. Also when using it I couldn't work out how ...
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Automating the usage of \vspace{\abovedisplayshortskip} and \vspace{\abovedisplayskip}
I'm trying to replicate the space above the equation environment. Currently, I have to manually alternate between
\vspace{\abovedisplayskip}
and
\vspace{\abovedisplayshortskip}
depending on the ...
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Setting Space Between Paragraph in A Custom Class
I've been trying set space between paragraph to 3 spaces with 1.5 line spacing on text (based on my thesis requirement). Searching around, looks like everyone suggest either using the parskip package ...
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Why is \parskip zero inside a minipage?
This question was originally entitled "inconsistent paragraph spacing with \parskip inside minipage" as the MWE below shows. But I found the answer at How to preserve the same parskip in minipage, ...
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LaTeX adds an additional blank paragraph after the end of my custom environment
A friend, who is a LaTeX user but isn't very confident with customising it, told me that he would like to be able to put framed paragraphs and framed equations into his documents. So I took it upon ...
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\index after mathmode
I want to create a range index for some part of my document. But when I do the following:
\documentclass{article}
\makeindex
\begin{document}
\index{test|(}
Some Text
\[ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, ...
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How to avoid \parskip being applied to \listoffigures etc.?
Follow-up question of Why are \listof{}{} and \listoffigures styled differently?...
With the issue mentioned above I finally managed to design my \listof{}{} and \listoffigures as desired but one ...
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How can I get spacing between paragraphs while also keeping the default indentations?
I'm using the report documentclass, and the paragraph formatting looks something like this with two paragraphs:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nam ac odio est.
Morbi vel ...
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Controlling paragraph spacing in LyX
I'm working on a rather large document for my university using LyX. I have been using the report (KOMA-Script) document class.
According to my university's document specification each paragraph ...
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Reducing spacing after headings
I've searched many sites but I couldn't get any answer. Here is this mystical question:
How can i reduce the spacing after headings?
Here is my code.
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
...
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3answers
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How to insert vertical space between paragraphs [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is there an easy way to have my whole document with a space between paragraphs rather than indentation?
Googling didn't give required results. (Many, but not applicable ...
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Avoid just nearly filled last lines
Old school typesetters never allowed the last line of a paragraph to be just nearly filled. Either it would be clearly shorter than the other lines or it would be stretched to align with the right ...
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How to use the parskip package? (space in between paragraphs)
Sorry, because I think it's a many times asked topic. But I don't find an example which help me to understand how to create a white space between paragraphs.
I think parskip is the package I need to ...
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How to typeset definitions with several paragraphs in the KOMA classes
The KOMA classes do not use vertical inter-paragraph spacing with some good arguments (see page 50 of the scrguide).
I defined an environment for definitions with the amsthm package using their ...
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Random unwanted space between paragraphs
I generate LaTeX code from XML for a book I'm writing, using pdflatex (Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (Web2C 2009)) and memoir. Very infrequently, there appears to be an extra blank line between two ...
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How to reduce the space between two footnotes, making them seem more like two paragraphs?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage[doublespacing]{setspace}
%\usepackage[onehalfspacing]{setspace}
\setlength{\parskip}{0pt}
\usepackage[b5paper]{geometry}
\begin{document}
...
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2answers
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Paragraph spacing affecting table of contents [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is there an easy way to have my whole document with a space between paragraphs rather than indentation?
I am trying to increase the spacing between paragraphs, using
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