Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
| 1) respect user decision
We don't want to respect user decision.
With this I don't agree... but We are not we i guess. If the user is
visually informed about what's happening, I don't see why not.
The user wants a nice document, I guess everybode respects that. But many a user don't know enough to make an informed choice.
Formatting using blank lines etc. may work for the specific case of filling out a form, but it breaks down badly when you write a many-page document and don't know in advance where the page breaks will be. Multi-page documents is the common case that should work well easily.
For those that haven't tried - make a document where every paragraph is separated with three blank lines (ctrl+enter) instead of increasing the paragraph spacing. Print it and notice how the page breaks sometimes gets in the middle of such a sequence occationally leaving you with a blank line or two at the top of a page. Using large paragraph spacing has the advantage that latex knows that it isn't supposed to put such spacing at the top or bottom of pages. The page break is space enough for all cases.
Perhaps this explanation ought to be somewhere in the documentation, an informative message could then refer to it.
Helge Hafting
