Thanks, Richard. This worked and now my spacing is consistent. Thanks so
much!
Mike
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Richard Heck <rgh...@comcast.net> wrote:
> On 6/24/10 10:37 PM, Mike Martell wrote:
>
> Do I place this at the top of the document? The spacing in the document
> doesn't change. I tried at the top and in one of the sections whose spacing
> was inconsistent.
>
> It has to go in the LaTeX preamble. You also have to wrap it in
> "\makeatletter" at the beginning and "\makeatother" at the end.
>
> The specific command I suggested won't do what you want. You'll have to
> adjust the spacing and the font commands that format the heading. But you
> should actually be able to get those values from the class file. That is, if
> you have using thesis.cls, then in that file somewhere you will find
> something like:
>
>
> \newcommand\sectio...@startsection {section}{1}...@}%
> {-3.5ex \...@plus -1ex \...@minus -.2ex}%
> {2.3ex \...@plus.2ex}%
> {\normalfont\Large\bfseries}}
>
> (This is taken from article.cls.) The six arguments to \...@startsection
> (i) set the name of the division (section)
> (ii) set the "level" in the hierarchy of divisions (so chapter is 0)
> (iii) set the indent for headings (zero, in this case, using the macro
> \z@)
> (iv) set the space above the heading
> (v) set the space below the heading
> (vi) declare any commands that should be used to set the heading; in
> this case, it is large and bold
> As for (iv) and (v), these are what LaTeX calls "rubber lengths" and the
> second means: Add 2.3 exes of space, and optionally add up to 0.2 exes, if
> necessary to fix page breaks, etc. The former means: Add 3.5 exes of space,
> optionally adding up to 1 ex and optionally subtracting up to 0.2exes; the
> minus is a hack that means: suppress the indentation of the first paragraph
> following this heading. So that is why the spacing can be inconsistent:
> LaTeX is being told it can alter the spacing before a section heading by
> almost a third.
>
> What I did was just copy and paste this command, making it a \renewcommnd,
> and then remove the rubber bits. You can do the same.
>
> Btw, if this doesn't solve the problem, then the issue probably has to do
> with float placement. But we can come back to that.
>
> Richard
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 9:57 PM, Richard Heck <rgh...@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> On 06/24/2010 09:22 PM, Mike Martell wrote:
>>
>>> Hi:
>>> I'm trying to finish formatting my dissertation to submit to the library.
>>> I'm using a thesis class. My output has the spacing between text and
>>> sections, and text and subjections, to vary throughout the dissertation. I
>>> need the spacing to be consistent. After searching the list archive and
>>> some tutorials, I tried inserting \raggedbottom to the top of my diss, but
>>> this does not fix the problem.
>>>
>>> Is there a way to fix this?
>>>
>>> This is normal. LaTeX varies the spacing as the needs of page breaking
>> require, just as is done in books and articles. If you need it to be
>> constant, then do something along the lines of:
>> \renewcommand\sectio...@startsection{section}{1}{\z@}%
>> {-3.5ex}{2ex}%
>> {\normlfont\Large\bfseries}%
>> The semantics of the \...@startsection command are explained here:
>> http://help-csli.stanford.edu/tex/latex-sections.shtml
>> and elsewhere.
>>
>> rh
>>
>>
>
>
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