General ⇒ quote paragraphs with inconsistent spacing

[webhead]

I have a document with several quotes, and the last paragraph in the quote is always double-spaced. If there's only one paragraph it is also double-spaced. The problem occurs whether I use quote or quotation. The text editor I use is TextWrangler (Mac), a free version of BBEdit.

Also, on occasion a word will stick out beyond the right margin, as if it didn't know how to hyphenate it. Is there something I can tweak for that?

Thanks in advance for any help.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi webhead,

the problem should be independent of the editor used. Could you post a minimal working example that shows this unwanted behaviour? Because when I used the quote environment the spacing used to be correct, for instance in this short example:

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\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\begin{document}
\blindtext
\begin{quote}
  \blindtext 
\end{quote}
\blindtext
\end{document}

If some words cannot be hyphenated you could use the \hyphenation command.

Stefan

[webhead]

Ok, attached is the file. I think it has something to do with using scriptsize.

[webhead]

This also produces the problem:

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\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\begin{document}
\blindtext
\begin{quote}
	\scriptsize
	{\blindtext
	
	 \blindtext}
	\normalsize
\end{quote}
\blindtext
\end{document}

[Stefan Kottwitz]

The \normalsize command affects the spacing. You could move it to the next paragraph. But probably you could remove \normalsize, because the effect of \scriptsize is limited to the quote environment.

Stefan

[webhead]

Yes, moving it down fixes the problem, thanks!

The reason I was putting it in at all was because it didn't go back to normal after the ending brace, but seems to work in the one case I removed it now. So I'll start removing those and see if the problem of not ending scriptsize returns.

Also, for the hyphens, I keep getting the error "not a character" in many cases, even in ordinary words. Any ideas?

[webhead]

It seems that scriptsize lasts for the whole paragraph, is that right? So then I have to use normalsize for sentence fragments?

For example,

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\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\begin{document}
\blindtext
\begin{quote}
	\scriptsize
	{\blindtext
	
	 \blindtext}
	
	\scriptsize{1,2,3}This should be normal size.
	

\end{quote}
\blindtext
\end{document}

"This should be normal size" is still scriptsize.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Which words are causing this error message?

Stefan

[webhead]

Which words are causing this error message?

Stefan

Anointed is one, I'll have to look up the others.

ADDED: This causes the error too:

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\hyphenation{pro-jects,lang-uage}

[Stefan Kottwitz]

It seems that scriptsize lasts for the whole paragraph, is that right? So then I have to use normalsize for sentence fragments?

\scriptsize lasts until the next size changing command or until the end of the environment/group. You can change the size of a single word inside a paragraph if you want.

Stefan