end of page, line spacing

[florian.pons@…]

when i exporte to PDF or DVI format(the document was created with lyx 1.3.6 and
modifide with 1.3.7), at the end of a pages (all pages) the text is not in the
page; i use lyx-1.4.1-pre_win32_setup_v1 (2006-03-19)
when i reopen the file with lyx1.3.7 it works well back.
compiled by Angus Leeming.

the same in french (my english is not very good):
lorsque j'exporte mon document aux formats PDF et DVI (un document en
particulier créé avec la version 1.3.6 puis modifié avec la version 1.3.7), le
text en fin de page sort de la feuille; j'utilise lyx-1.4.1-pre_win32_setup_v1
(2006-03-19)
compilé par Angus Leeming
lorsque je réouvre le fichié avec lyx1.3.7 les fiché exporté sont de nouveau de
bonne qualité.

[florian.pons@…]

i found where the problem come from:
document>settings>text layout
line spacing:

onehalf (don't work well)
single (no problem)

[Uwe Stöhr]

j'utilise lyx-1.4.1-pre_win32_setup_v1 (2006-03-19)

C'est une version pour tester!
Nevertheless, I can reproduce this problem also with LyX 1.4.0.

[michael.gerz@…]

This looks like a major bug as many people (like me) use special line spacings.
1.3.7 and 1.4.X should definitely produce the same output.

Florian, could you please export your file to LaTeX with 1.3.7 and 1.4.0 and
check the differences LaTeX-wise?

[michael.gerz@…]

Ouch! This bug is nasty.

Here is what has changed from 1.3.7 to 1.4.0:

%% LyX 1.3 created this file. For more info, see ​http://www.lyx.org/.
%% Do not edit unless you really know what you are doing.
\documentclass[frenchb]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{a4wide}
\usepackage{setspace}
\onehalfspacing
...

%% LyX 1.4.1svn created this file. For more info, see ​http://www.lyx.org/.
%% Do not edit unless you really know what you are doing.
\documentclass[french]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{setspace}
\onehalfspacing
\usepackage{amssymb}
...
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% User specified LaTeX commands.
\usepackage{a4wide}

Since 1.4.X no longer supports a4wide.sty natively. lyx2lyx adds a user-specific
command to the preamble. As a consequence, the order of setspace and a4wide is
reverted which causes the problem.

I have no idea how we can resolve this problem. Thank God the consequences of
the change are so radical that a user can't overlook it.

Maybe it would be better to raise a warning during lyx2lyx convertion rather
than adding a user-specified command that the user is not aware of (i.e., he may
not be able to fix the problem by himself unless he looks at the preamble (which
doesn't mean anything to an average user))

[Georg Baum]

A warning during lyx2lyx conversion would not help, because it would be sent to
the terminal and never seen. Therefore I think the current situation is better,
or maybe one could work around the problem: Instead of \usepackage{a4wide},
lyx2lyx would output something like (pseudo code)

\usepackage{a4wide}
if not normalspacing

fix problems

endif

I guess the "if not normalspacing" would not be too difficult, but I the "fix
problems" part may be tricky.

[florian.pons@…]

Document>settings>latex preamble
\usepackage{a4wide}
is write, if i delete it, the document seems to worke well with the line spacing
onehalf but it change margins (I have use little margine) so i have to change
back margins manualy.

[Juergen Spitzmueller]

Note that the same also happens with headings (#2372). Too bad that we ever
supported that packages.
Could lyx2lyx check if a4[wide] is used, and if, place the setspace and
fancyhdr command to the user preamble instead of natively using it? I don't
know another solution.

[Georg Baum]

That does unfortunately not work, because it is not possible to prevent the
automatic \usepackage{setspace}, but I have a different idea: Maybe it is
possible to achieve the same effect as a4wide.sty with another package that
does not clash with setspace?

[Juergen Spitzmueller]

The problem is that there exist different versions of a4.sty and a4wide.sty,
so that I cannot even predict that a4wide.sty on your box has the same effect
than a4wide.sty on my box :-(

[lasgouttes]

move bugs to 1.4.2. Sorry for the spam

[Richard Heck]

Moving all bugs targeted to before 1.5.0 to 1.5.x.

If these are yours, please check that they have not been fixed and, if so, close
them.

Otherwise, sorry for the spam.

[Juergen Spitzmueller]

1.5.x is frozen. Shifting all 1.5.x-targetted bugs to 1.6.x.

If you have reported this bug, please verify if it still occurs in 1.6.0 and
close the report, if not.

[Vincent van Ravesteijn]

This is about a lyx2lyx bug between versions 1.3.7 and 1.4.0..

.. shall we close this now ?

[Uwe Stöhr]

.. shall we close this now ?

I vote to close this as WONTFIX.

[Vincent van Ravesteijn]

Me too.