On 06/28/2010 10:45 PM, Mike Martell wrote:
Now LyX is making my spacing inconsistent in places (making it single
instead of double) to keep my section spacing consistent. Is there a
way I can fix that too?
Probably, though I don't know how. That said, LaTeX is neither designed
nor intended for this kind of fine-grained control over spacing.
Probably, the effects you are seeing have to do with float placement.
Are you trying to force floats to appear in specific places? If so, then
this can cause all kinds of problems.
rh
thanks,
Mike
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Mike Martell
<martell.m...@american.edu <mailto:martell.m...@american.edu>> wrote:
Thanks, Richard. This worked and now my spacing is consistent.
Thanks so much!
Mike
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Richard Heck <rgh...@comcast.net
<mailto:rgh...@comcast.net>> wrote:
On 6/24/10 10:37 PM, Mike Martell wrote:
Do I place this at the top of the document? The spacing in
the document doesn't change. I tried at the top and in one
of the sections whose spacing was inconsistent.
It has to go in the LaTeX preamble. You also have to wrap it
in "\makeatletter" at the beginning and "\makeatother" at the end.
The specific command I suggested won't do what you want.
You'll have to adjust the spacing and the font commands that
format the heading. But you should actually be able to get
those values from the class file. That is, if you have using
thesis.cls, then in that file somewhere you will find
something like:
\newcommand\sectio...@startsection {section}{1}...@}%
{-3.5ex \...@plus -1ex \...@minus
-.2ex}%
{2.3ex \...@plus.2ex}%
{\normalfont\Large\bfseries}}
(This is taken from article.cls.) The six arguments to
\...@startsection
(i) set the name of the division (section)
(ii) set the "level" in the hierarchy of divisions (so
chapter is 0)
(iii) set the indent for headings (zero, in this case,
using the macro \z@)
(iv) set the space above the heading
(v) set the space below the heading
(vi) declare any commands that should be used to set the
heading; in this case, it is large and bold
As for (iv) and (v), these are what LaTeX calls "rubber
lengths" and the second means: Add 2.3 exes of space, and
optionally add up to 0.2 exes, if necessary to fix page
breaks, etc. The former means: Add 3.5 exes of space,
optionally adding up to 1 ex and optionally subtracting up to
0.2exes; the minus is a hack that means: suppress the
indentation of the first paragraph following this heading. So
that is why the spacing can be inconsistent: LaTeX is being
told it can alter the spacing before a section heading by
almost a third.
What I did was just copy and paste this command, making it a
\renewcommnd, and then remove the rubber bits. You can do the
same.
Btw, if this doesn't solve the problem, then the issue
probably has to do with float placement. But we can come back
to that.
Richard
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 9:57 PM, Richard Heck
<rgh...@comcast.net <mailto:rgh...@comcast.net>> wrote:
On 06/24/2010 09:22 PM, Mike Martell wrote:
Hi:
I'm trying to finish formatting my dissertation to
submit to the library. I'm using a thesis class. My
output has the spacing between text and sections, and
text and subjections, to vary throughout the
dissertation. I need the spacing to be consistent.
After searching the list archive and some tutorials,
I tried inserting \raggedbottom to the top of my
diss, but this does not fix the problem.
Is there a way to fix this?
This is normal. LaTeX varies the spacing as the needs of
page breaking require, just as is done in books and
articles. If you need it to be constant, then do
something along the lines of:
\renewcommand\sectio...@startsection{section}{1}{\z@}%
{-3.5ex}{2ex}%
{\normlfont\Large\bfseries}%
The semantics of the \...@startsection command are explained
here:
http://help-csli.stanford.edu/tex/latex-sections.shtml
and elsewhere.
rh
