LyX ⇒ Onehalf line spacing doc with single line spacing quotations

[runevision]

I'm writing a document in LyX with onehalf line spacing, and I'd like the quotes to be single line spaced.

I have eventually found a solution but it was not easy to find (for me). It is based on these two posts (from 2002):
http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@l ... 20792.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@l ... 20869.html

I tried out countless variations that all produced wrong results one way or the other. Part of the confusion came from this post:
http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@l ... 52814.html

Anyway, eventually I ended up with simply this, which seems to work perfectly:

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\let\oldquote=\quotation
\let\oldendquote=\endquote
\renewenvironment{quotation}
   {\singlespacing\oldquote}
   {\oldendquote}
 
 
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This code should be put in the LaTeX Preamble, accessed in the document settings dialog.

In the same dialog, under Text Layout, the line spacing should be set to OneHalf, which then affects the rest of the document.

The TOC and bibliography can be single spaced too, by using the menu Edit > Paragraph Settings while the cursor is just before the auto-generated TOC and bibliography respectively.

Hope that may help someone out there, having the same difficulties as I just had.

Also, if the above solution is not a good one for some reason, please let me know! I don't know LaTeX, it just seems to work.

Rune

[Juanjo]

In LaTeX, there are two environments intended for quotations: quote and quotation. They differ essentially in the indentation and the space between paragraphs (quote has no indentantion, contrarily to quotation, and bigger inter-paragraph separation). You should use one or another, but not mix both, as seen in your code: \oldquote relies on quotation, whereas \oldenquote comes from quote (through \endquote). Fortunately, \enquotation (which is the macro you should assign to \oldendquote) and \endquote have the same internal definition, so the confusion has no consequence.

[runevision]

You should use one or another, but not mix both, as seen in your code: \oldquote relies on quotation, whereas \oldenquote comes from quote (through \endquote).

Thanks. The code originally used quote, and I wanted to use it for quotation instead. It was a simple oversight that I forgot to change it for the environment ending. It's fixed below and I renamed the variables too to avoid confusion.

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\let\oldquotation=\quotation
\let\oldendquotation=\endquotation
\renewenvironment{quotation}
   {\singlespacing\oldquotation}
   {\oldendquotation}
 
 
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Rune

[ExecutorElassus]

Using your updated code causes strange behavior: the paragraph before the quotation block also gets set single-spaced. Is there something going wrong with how LyX is handling this code in recent versions?

Cheers,

EE