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From: crl@newton.physics.purdue.edu (Charles R. LaBrec)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Limit/adjust space between `items' in *TeX
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Date: Tue, 9-Dec-86 10:49:03 EST
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You can reduce the amount of spacing between lines in lists by
adjusting \parskip .  The default at normal size is something like
\parskip=30pt plus 18pt minus 9pt .  The small amount of shrink
prohibits \parskip from ever getting smaller than 21pt.  When I need
to squeeze, I set \parskip=10pt plus 30pt minus 10pt , or something
like that.  I have often wondered why \parskip did not have a larger
shrink component and why interlinepenalty isn't set to infinity, since
splitting slides across pages is almost always undesirable.

Charles LaBrec
crl @ newton.physics.purdue.edu



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Charles LaBrec
crl @ newton.physics.purdue.edu