Text Formatting

howard · Post by **howard** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 9:08 am

Hello all,

I am fairly new to latex and am currently writing up my master's thesis (of course it has to be in a completely illogical format). I am curious if anyone knows how to bypass latex's default spacing for equations and manually enter the desired spacing so that there is one double space before the equation(s) and one after for example,

texttexttexttexttexttexttexttext

equations

texttexttexttexttexttexttexttext.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Post by **localghost** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 9:29 am

Indeed there are some length registers that determine the space before and after an equation.

\abovedisplayshortskip
\abovedisplayskip
\belowdisplayshortskip
\belowdisplayskip

The best is to search for these terms in the »Math mode« document to get explanations and examples.

Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten¹

howard · Post by **howard** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 10:01 am

This works. Thanks a lot for the help! Hopefully I'll get good enough at this so I can return the favor.

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