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Thorsten,

you are absolutely right! i have no idea why my command works... however the problem is immediately apparent from the following code:

\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,english]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage ...

another update.

i may be wrong when i said that "using your command in place of mine results in the same large distance as before" in the previous post...

the \addtolength syntax does reduce the space ... though not as much as the \renewcommand syntax

please the attached MWE_2.pdf which is the ...

hi Thorsten,

maybe there is some issue at my end. but it appears that using your command in place of mine results in the same large distance as before... whereas if i use what i mentioned in my last post, things look fine.

please see page 2 in the attached PDF files:
MWE_0.pdf <- created using my ...

OK solved!

all i had to was add the line:
right before the: to get the separation i needed.

thanks for the pointers!

--shiven

hi localghost,

thanks for taking the time to answer my query!

so, here is the .tex code:
(WARNING, this may be too long!)

\documentclass[11pt,letterpaper,english]{article}
\renewcommand{\familydefault}{\sfdefault}
\usepackage[OT1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[letterpaper ...

hi all,

this is my first post and i am a complete newbie regarding LaTeX.

i also posted this to the texhax mailing list but haven't heard anything back...

i am using pdflatex via the texmaker editor to create a pdf document with figures and text. the final output seems to have a large "horizontal ...