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In HTML, all I would have to do is:
This is line one
<br>.<br>.<br>
This is line two
to get the following output:
This is line one
.
.
This is line two
I've been playing around with \\ and \newline but can't get it to work. Can someone provide a working example?
UPDATE:
Ok, I found out I was doing it entirely wrong. I relied on extra line breaks to give me more vertical space. \baselineskip matches my needs better and gives the user more fine control.
LaTeX is for professional typesetting and doesn't allow you the freedom of HTML. Two line breaks in a row don't make any sense for typography. If you want to add more vertical space using the optional argument of \\[<extra vertical space to add>]. The distance of two lines is given by \baselineskip:
This is line one\\[2\baselineskip]
This is line two
You can also use \bigskip between paragraphs to add more vertical space between them. Note that there is a difference between line breaks and new paragraphs.
This is the last line of one paragraph.
\par% or empty line in the source code
\bigskip
This is the first line of the next paragraph.
You should separate paragraphs with blank lines. If, occasionally, you want an extra separation between two paragraphs you should use one of the \...skip commands, for example:
\noindent
This is the first paragraph.
\bigskip\noindent
This is the second paragraph.
Note that you wont be willing to do that too often, except for the occasional case. If you want to suppress indentation in all your paragraphs in your document, and leave a larger space between them, then use the parskip package
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{parskip}
\begin{document}
This is the first paragraph.
This is the second paragraph.
\end{document}
If for some reason you really want “line breaks” (as opposed to “paragraph breaks”) then use \\, i.e.:
This is line one \\
. \\
. \\
This is line two
\\s, then it won't work directly...but you can fix that by sticking an empty \mbox{} between them.
Jul 23, 2011 at 16:01
What is important to note is that \\ is for a premature line-break within a paragraph: it does not terminate the paragraph.
To add manual space between paragraphs, use \par\vspace{<dimen>}.
FWIW, the equivalent in ConTeXt is \blank[3*line]. For example:
\starttext
One line
\blank[3*line]
2nd line
\stoptext
If you want a skip equal to bigskip, you can use \blank[big]; to get twice the bigskip, use \blank[2*big] etc.
This is line one
.\par.\par
This is line two
or
This is line one
.
.
This is line two
an empty line is the same as \par. Only in special cases a \\ makes sense instead of \par
<br> is \\ , \par would be more like the closing of a </p>
Jul 23, 2011 at 16:04
\\ instead of \par. Could you mention one of the special cases for \\ ?
Jul 23, 2011 at 16:13
\\ (outside tabulars etc.) normally only when I have to stack two diagrams or images or something similar.
Jul 23, 2011 at 16:44
\par. It is really difficult for TeX to do a proper garapgraph formatting if you use \\
<br> tag in a wrong way where also <p> .. </p> should be used.
You can use bigbreak:
This is line one
\bigbreak.\bigbreak.\bigbreak
This is line two
I use this code.
This is line one\\\\[15pt]
Thia ia line two.
Note: \\\\[15pt] is a kind of line break that will let you simplify how long is your line break is. You can change 15 with any number you need.
