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which documentclass are you using? Is \flushbottom used?
Don't leave empty lines before or after displayed equations, they would produce additional space.
I'm using the "book" document class and I don't know if \flushbottom is used - I haven't put it anywhere (it's not in the preamble).

Anyway, I ...

Hi,

I've just begun using multi-line equation and it works well except that there is a whole lot of space above them; much more than for single line equations. Is this a bug or by design?

Thanks,
Rune

You should use one or another, but not mix both, as seen in your code: \oldquote relies on quotation, whereas \oldenquote comes from quote (through \endquote). Thanks. The code originally used quote, and I wanted to use it for quotation instead. It was a simple oversight that I forgot to change it ...

I'm writing a document in LyX with onehalf line spacing, and I'd like the quotes to be single line spaced.

I have eventually found a solution but it was not easy to find (for me). It is based on these two posts (from 2002):
http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg20792.html
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