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<TeXmacs|1.99.13>
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<style|<tuple|tmdoc|english|old-spacing|old-dots|old-lengths>>
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<tmdoc-title|Layout issues>
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As a general rule, <TeXmacs> takes care of the layout of your text.
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Therefore, although we did not want to forbid this possibility, we do not
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encourage you to typeset your document visually. For instance, you should
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not insert spaces or blank lines as substitutes for horizontal and vertical
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spaces between words and lines; instead, additional space should be
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inserted explicitly using <menu|Insert|Space>. This will make your text
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more robust in the sense that you will not have to reconsider the layout
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when performing some minor changes, which affect line or page breaking, or
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major changes, such as changing the document style.
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Several types of explicit spacing commands have been implemented. First of
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all, you can insert rigid spaces of given widths and heights. Horizontal
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spaces do not have a height and are either stretchable or not. The length
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of a stretchable spaces depends on the way a paragraph is hyphenated.
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Furthermore, it is possible to insert tabular spaces. Vertical spaces may
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be inserted either at the start or the end of a paragraph: the additional
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vertical space between two paragraphs is the maximum of the vertical space
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after the first one and the vertical space before the second one (contrary
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to <TeX>, this prevents from superfluous space between two consecutive
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theorems).
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As to the paragraph layout, the user may specify the paragraph style
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(justified, left ragged, centered or right ragged), the paragraph margins
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and the left (resp. right) indentation of the first (resp. last) line of a
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paragraph. The user also controls the spaces between paragraphs and
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successive lines in paragraphs.
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You can specify the page layout in the <menu|Document|Page> menu. First of
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all, you can specify the way pages are displayed on the screen: when
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selecting \Ppaper\Q as page type in <menu|Document|Page|Type>, you
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explicitly see the page breaks. By default, the page type is \Ppapyrus\Q,
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which avoids page breaking during the preparation of your document. The
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\Pautomatic\Q page type assumes that your paper size is exactly the size of
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your window. The page margins and text width are specified in
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<menu|Document|Page|Layout>. Often, it is convenient to reduce the page
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margins for usage on the screen; this can be done in
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<menu|Document|Page|Screen layout>.
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<tmdoc-copyright|1998\U2020|Joris van der Hoeven>
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<tmdoc-license|Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
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document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1
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or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no
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Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover
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Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free
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Documentation License".>
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</body>
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<initial|<\collection>
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</collection>>
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