Re: Problem with line spacing of text in a table (previously: \begin{singlespace} in fixed width table)

[Paul A. Rubin]

On 09/22/2018 08:02 PM, jcredbe...@gmail.com wrote:
That is only part of a table that is 19x19. Hence, the width of the 
columns is the same as in the original one. The first column is text, 
while the rest are numeric. At the end of the day, both, the numeric 
and the text columns are going to wrap.


Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com 


On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 3:39 PM Paul A. Rubin > wrote:


On 09/22/2018 12:40 PM, jcredbe...@gmail.com
 wrote:

Dear all,

I want to repost my previous question but with a different
context and with a working example. As you can see on the
attached file, I have a landscape long table, for which each
column has a predefined width. The resulting PDF shows that the
text in the cells of this table has a line spacing wider than
expected. This behavior is the same in a vertical (regular) long
table, as well as in a table in a float. It seems as if reducing
the size of the font does not affect the line spacing.

Trying to set line spacing up in the paragraph settings menu,
only worsens the problem, as extra spacing is added on the top
and bottom of the text.

Is there any way to do this? Why is this the behavior in Lyx?

Thanks in advance. Regards,

Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com 

Do you need the overall width of the table to be that narrow (and,
in particular, do you need it narrow enough that the line of text
in each cell of the right column has to wrap)?

Paul

Bear with me, this gets a bit funky. I don't think the issue is with 
LyX; I think it has something to do with using \tiny (or presumably 
other font size commands) inside table cells. I tried the following fix 
on one copy of the table, which I think gets what you want.


1. I highlighted the whole table and reset the font size.
2. I removed "(1)", "(2)" etc. from the first column (more on that below).
3. I put "{\tiny " (note the trailing space) in ERT outside the table
   and immediately before it and "}" in ERT outside and immediately
   after the table.
4. The table compiled without extra vertical spacing.

Regarding step 2, the way you did the font resizing wrapped the content 
of each cell in LaTeX braces. Without those braces, starting the cell 
contents with a left parenthesis produced a lot of undefined command 
errors. I don't know why -- maybe some artifact of the longtable 
package? It turns out you can leave the "(1)" etc. in if your precede 
each one with a hard space (again, no idea why that works). You can also 
wrap each cell of the left column in braces by inserting an opening 
brace in ERT and a closing brace in ERT. It's possible sacrificing a 
small animal as an offering to the LaTeX gods would also work, but PETA 
already has me on their watch list, so I didn't try that.


Paul

Re: Problem with line spacing of text in a table (previously: \begin{singlespace} in fixed width table)

[jcredberry]

That is only part of a table that is 19x19. Hence, the width of the columns
is the same as in the original one. The first column is text, while the
rest are numeric. At the end of the day, both, the numeric and the text
columns are going to wrap.

Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com


On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 3:39 PM Paul A. Rubin  wrote:

> On 09/22/2018 12:40 PM, jcredbe...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> I want to repost my previous question but with a different context and
> with a working example. As you can see on the attached file, I have a
> landscape long table, for which each column has a predefined width. The
> resulting PDF shows that the text in the cells of this table has a line
> spacing wider than expected. This behavior is the same in a vertical
> (regular) long table, as well as in a table in a float. It seems as if
> reducing the size of the font does not affect the line spacing.
>
> Trying to set line spacing up in the paragraph settings menu, only worsens
> the problem, as extra spacing is added on the top and bottom of the text.
>
> Is there any way to do this? Why is this the behavior in Lyx?
>
> Thanks in advance. Regards,
>
> Julio Rojas
> jcredbe...@gmail.com
>
> Do you need the overall width of the table to be that narrow (and, in
> particular, do you need it narrow enough that the line of text in each cell
> of the right column has to wrap)?
>
> Paul
>
>

Re: Problem with line spacing of text in a table (previously: \begin{singlespace} in fixed width table)

[Paul A. Rubin]

On 09/22/2018 12:40 PM, jcredbe...@gmail.com wrote:

Dear all,

I want to repost my previous question but with a different context and 
with a working example. As you can see on the attached file, I have a 
landscape long table, for which each column has a predefined width. 
The resulting PDF shows that the text in the cells of this table has a 
line spacing wider than expected. This behavior is the same in a 
vertical (regular) long table, as well as in a table in a float. It 
seems as if reducing the size of the font does not affect the line 
spacing.


Trying to set line spacing up in the paragraph settings menu, only 
worsens the problem, as extra spacing is added on the top and bottom 
of the text.


Is there any way to do this? Why is this the behavior in Lyx?

Thanks in advance. Regards,

Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com 
Do you need the overall width of the table to be that narrow (and, in 
particular, do you need it narrow enough that the line of text in each 
cell of the right column has to wrap)?


Paul

Problem with line spacing of text in a table (previously: \begin{singlespace} in fixed width table)

[jcredberry]

Dear all,

I want to repost my previous question but with a different context and with
a working example. As you can see on the attached file, I have a landscape
long table, for which each column has a predefined width. The resulting PDF
shows that the text in the cells of this table has a line spacing wider
than expected. This behavior is the same in a vertical (regular) long
table, as well as in a table in a float. It seems as if reducing the size
of the font does not affect the line spacing.

Trying to set line spacing up in the paragraph settings menu, only worsens
the problem, as extra spacing is added on the top and bottom of the text.

Is there any way to do this? Why is this the behavior in Lyx?

Thanks in advance. Regards,

Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com


Long_Table_Example.lyx
Description: application/lyx

Re: Problem with line-spacing

[Paul A. Rubin]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hi everyone,

I have a problem with 1.5 line spacing in my document. For line spacing 
1, the compiled pdf is excellent, but as soon as I change to 1.5 line 
spacing, the text exceeds the pages in the pdf. The style is report, 
paper size A4 and default margins are used (but a manual setting does 
not help either). What have I done wrong?


Thanks for any help,
Mareike



You make the change by setting Document -> Settings... -> Text Layout -> 
Line Spacing to "OneHalf", right?  Which method do you use to generate 
PDFs (ps2pdf, dvipdfm or pdflatex)?  What version of LyX, and what 
operating system?


I can't reproduce this.  Perhaps you could post a small sample document 
where this occurs?


/Paul

Problem with line-spacing

[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

Hi everyone,

I have a problem with 1.5 line spacing in my document. For line spacing 
1, the compiled pdf is excellent, but as soon as I change to 1.5 line 
spacing, the text exceeds the pages in the pdf. The style is report, 
paper size A4 and default margins are used (but a manual setting does 
not help either). What have I done wrong?


Thanks for any help,
Mareike