On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Rune Schjellerup Philosof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bob Lounsbury skrev: >> >> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 8:44 AM, Rune Schjellerup Philosof >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> >>> Bob Lounsbury skrev: >>> >>>> >>>> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 3:37 AM, Rune Schjellerup Philosof >>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I'm trying to change the line spacing in the author environment (in a >>>>> report). >>>>> Lyx shows the change perfectly, but when I view it in pdf or dvi the >>>>> line >>>>> spacing setting is ignored. >>>>> Even when I try to insert vertical spaces they are partly ignored. >>>>> Actually the size of first vertical space in author is used for the >>>>> second >>>>> one, and no space is shown where the first one is. >>>>> >>>>> Also, try making the first one a VFill and the document won't compile. >>>>> >>>> >>>> From what I found on the internet, Authors should be added with the, >>>> \and, command with the command being put in ERT. Also, using ERT line >>>> breaks, \\, rather than the LyX ctrl->enter seems to work better for >>>> me. I've attached an example. >>>> >>> >>> I did not know that about \and. >>> But that wasn't really what I was having trouble with. >>> Also in your example, the spacing between the lines of the author name, >>> and >>> the university name is not double, as the paragraph has been set. >>> >> >> Ok. Then try this. >> > > Well, I forgot to tell, I actually don't want double spacing, but 1.5 or > something. > I guess I should report it as a bug. >
Ok, now you're just being picky :-}. I don't think this is a bug, what you are trying to do is not standard LaTeX formatting within an author environment. Anyways, I seem to have fixed the "bug" by using ctrl->enter at the start of the next author rather than the end of the author. See the attached example. Cheers, /Bob
author_spacing_test.lyx
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