At 17:54 02/09/2019 -0400, Felmon Davis wrote:
it's easy to set up a style to indent a paragraph with two line spaces separating it from the rest of the text fore and aft.
I'm sorry to have to disappoint you but, although OpenOffice is available for a range of operating systems, it is not available for Typewriter, which you appear to use. It's only when using a typewriter that you space paragraphs by "lines", of course: in a word processor you are not restricted to lines and so set paragraph spacing simply by distance.
suppose I want a style that will keep two paragraphs together, separated by one line but separated from the rest by two spaces before and after the couplet. is that doable?
o It's a bit messy (though it satisfies your archaic need to think in lines), but you could separate the two blocks of text by two successive line breaks (Shift+Enter) instead of a paragraph break. You could still adjust the vertical spacing by changing the font size in the intervening empty line. The two blocks would then actually constitute a single paragraph, of course.
o Alternatively, you could apply local paragraph formatting to the pair of paragraphs (or probably just one of them), to override the paragraph style formatting.
o Here's an idea. Put your pair of paragraphs into a single table cell (one column, one row). (You won't want a table border.) Apply a different paragraph style (perhaps Table Contents?) to your pair of paragraphs, with smaller spacing (one "line"). Then also set spacing after the table to make up the necessary difference between the pair of paragraphs and the following material (the other of your two "lines").
I trust this helps. Brian Barker --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
