Text Formatting

velisarus · Post by **velisarus** » Thu Nov 26, 2009 1:41 am

Hi everyone!

I have some problems with the spaces between paragraphs -- they are stretches. Yes, I know, this is normal behavior of LaTeX... But that looks awful.

pg_0006.pdf: (53.81 KiB) Downloaded 448 times

Can I anyhow forbid the stretching of those spaces?

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magicmoose · Post by **magicmoose** » Thu Nov 26, 2009 1:51 am

Hi there,

You could try setting \setlength{\parskip}{length} in your preamble, where length is the distance between paragraphs, and can be in cm, pt etc...

Hope that helps

velisarus · Post by **velisarus** » Thu Nov 26, 2009 2:21 am

Yes, that helps! And yes, I'm fool, that was so simple...

I've set \setlength{\parskip}{0pt plus 0pt minus 0pt} in my preamble, and look at this.

pg_0006_corrected.pdf: (56.25 KiB) Downloaded 341 times

Of course, now I have some other problems, like widows and orphans, but that's not very important in this case. Besides, I can fix it... Actually those spaces were made by \widowpenalty=10000 (\clubpenalty=10000), so it's useful to change theirs values.

It's important to say, that there are no spaces between paragraphs in Russian typography -- they are forbidden.

Thank you, magicmoose!

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