On Tue, 3 Sep 2019, Brian Barker wrote:
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.
cute remarks (including 'archaic need' below). gotta get the word out
to OpenOffice too since the dialogue, 'Indents & Spacing', refers
to 'line spacing' - perhaps it is a typewriter!
thank you for the substance of your remarks, but I'm not sure they
help. I think I haven't described my problem adequately.
I can make a 'style' which indents a paragraph say .03" left and right
and say .08" above and below.
I call this 'text-indent' and when the authors in the volume have
extended quotations, I can format them with a click on the style.
but in some cases the quotations themselves comprise two paragraphs. I
don't want the two paragraphs separated from each other by .08". I was
asking is there a way of making a style which separates two paragraphs
from the surrounding text but not from each other. I suspect not.
ok if not; I'll have to do it by hand.
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.
I know I can do the work by hand. but I wanted to encapsulate it in a
style.
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").
in the present text there are only a couple of instances where I want
do this kind of indentation but the table solution would be unwieldly
even then, and prohibitive in papers with more instances.
I trust this helps.
thank you for the ideas!
f.
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Felmon Davis
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