John Kaufmann wrote:
A few days ago I asked how, in the OO worldview, one should properly
separate paragraphs ("Newline between paragraphs" - the answer was
No). After thinking about the consequences, I followed with a thread
("Line break and justification withing paragraph?"} that tried to ask
a practical question [that is holding up a paper I'm writing]. That
question received no answers, probably because I (a) asked it poorly
and (b) embedded it in a (verbose) question about design philosophy.
May I try again? [My paper is waiting. ;-)]
This is a common issue, seen all the time, especially in procedural
documents like service manuals: A paragraph with an embedded list.
The first few sentences of the paragraph describe the list, and then
the elements are listed. One would like to treat this, spatially and
conceptually, as a single paragraph.
For such purposes Writer provides the intra-paragraph line break
(Shift+Enter), which breaks the line without invoking the
inter-paragraph spacing. But there is (at least) one problem: It
can't be used with "Justified" paragraph alignment. How can this be
handled?
John
I do what you describe a lot, but I don't feel any need to make the list
items a single paragraph, and specifically to have the list items be the
same paragraph as what is used to describe the list.
I use a separate paragraph style for the list items (I think I just call
it "List"), with the main difference between the list style and the main
paragraph style being much less space between paragraphs. I usually
bulletize the list, which is then very important to have each list item
be a different paragraph (otherwise each one wouldn't get a bullet).
Works for me anyway ... but I'm guessing there is something fundamental
that I'm missing, if this is something holding up your paper.
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