Guenter Milde <milde <at> users.berlios.de> writes:
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> On 2010-06-12, Barak Sh wrote:
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> > An article I'm writing has reached 7 pages where the last page contains
> > only a small paragraph. Is there a simple way to reduce the article to
> > 6 pages?
>
> > ... I have noticed that there are many blank spaces between paragraphs
> > and between formulas and text.
>
> If it is up to you, you can select parindent instead of parskip.
>
> Don't start a new paragraph before and after a formula.
> This happens, if you hit Enter (Return).
> The difference is hard to spot in LyX but might be your problem.
> View>Source helps, if there is a blank line around formulas, delete the
> newlines (and use Ctrl-Z if you accidentially delete the formula as
> well).
>
> > There must be a simple way to tell LaTeX to make these spaces a
> > bit smaller so that the article fits comfortably into 6 pages. (I know
> > there's an option in Document Settings to specify the vertical
> > separation of paragraphs. It's already at the smallest value.)
>
> If you need parskip use the parskip package instead of LyX GUI setting
> (set to parindent and in the LaTeX preamble write
> \usepackage{parskip}. This reduces excess space around lists, headings etc.
>
> Günter
>
>
Thanks (to all three repliers)!
I tried \usepackage{parskip}, but it did not change anything. Then I decided to
specify a custom length for the separation between paragraphs, in the document
settings, and this seemed to do the trick, combined with a custom line spacing
(of exactly 0.8). I've managed to shrink my article to 6 pages.
I also tried to change the document class to "article (more font sizes)", and
then choose a smaller base size for fonts (8 instead of 10). However, I could
not export the article; I got a LaTeX error "\...@chapter undefined". Any idea
where this error could have come from?
I would like to make the fonts smaller but still have larger fonts for titles,
how is that possible without changing the base font size (and without
painstakingly changing the individual font sizes of each title and paragraph)?
Thanks again,
Barak
