LyX ⇒ The distance bewteen a line and a formula?

[lyxrocks]

There are three kinds of distance between "lines":

1, distance between consecutive lines in the same paragraph.
2, distance between consecutive paragraphs.
3, distance between a line and a displayed formula.

it seems that, under default settings, 3 is always slightly greater than 1. i am interested in knowing how to modify number 3 to make it smaller.

thanks in advance!

edit: notice that i made sure that i am not making the same mistake this time! i made sure that there is no extra lines in between. even so, 3 is still slightly greater than 1!

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Similar to what I wrote in this post, you can adjust those distances in the document's LaTeX preamble. With an example value of 10pt, which you may adjust:

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\expandafter\def\expandafter\normalsize\expandafter{%
    \normalsize
    \setlength\abovedisplayskip{10pt}
    \setlength\belowdisplayskip{10pt}
    \setlength\abovedisplayshortskip{10pt}
    \setlength\belowdisplayshortskip{10pt}
}

It redefines the \normalsize command, which is provided by base classes, and adds the distance modification. Instead of just using \setlength, I modified \normalsize because this originally modifies those lenghts which would change them after \begin{document} and each time the font's size is reset to the normal size by this macro.

Stefan

[lyxrocks]

thank you for the quick and effective reply!