Text Formatting ⇒ Problem with paragraph

[quasar987]

Hello,

My code is the following

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\documentclass{slides}
\setlength{\parskip}{4cm}
\usepackage{amsmath,amssymb}
\usepackage[frenchb]{babel}
\newtheorem{mydef}{Definition}
\newtheorem{ce}{Contre-exemple}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

\begin{document}
\begin{slide}

\textbf{Exemples}
\begin{enumerate}
  \item Item 1
  \item Item 2 
\end{enumerate}

Text

\end{slide}
\end{document}

Observe that I wrote "\setlength{\parskip}{4cm}" in the preamble. This, I read, would insure that I get a 4cm spacing between paragraphs. And to tell LaTeX that I want a paragraph at some place, I simple have to leave a blank line. Why then is there not a 4cm space between "Item 2" and "Text"?

Instead, I noticed that when I leave a blank line between "\textbf{Exemples}" and "\begin{enumerate}", a spacing appear between "Exemples" and "Item 1" and between "Item 2" and "Text" (and this, independantly of the existence of a blank line between "\end{enumerate}" and "Text"!). Furthermore, this spacing is as big whether I enter 1cm or 4cm in "\setlength{\parskip}{}".

What is going on?

Thank you.

[localghost]

You have chosen the wrong length for modification. The according length here is \itemsep which is - as its name says - the space between to items. Note that this length is normally set variable to enable stretching or upsetting text on a page.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten¹

[quasar987]

Perhaps I have not made it clear what I want.

I tried \itemsep and all I could get out of it is a serparation between the items in my list.

What I want is a separation between the last item in my list and the following paragraph. As it appears in the dvi file, I want a separation between "Item 2" and "Text".

[localghost]

Sorry, obviously a mistake in reading. It seems that such modifications of lengths have no effect in this document class. I only can observe a change when setting the line with the babel package as comment. There are lots of alternative document classes for producing presentations [1]. There you find some classes that let you structure your slides with less restrictions.

[1] The TeX Catalogue OnLine, Top Index - Presentation Slides