On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 7:51 AM Van L <address@hidden> wrote:
Thank you,
> You can force a newline in LaTeX putting '\\' at the end of the line(as the last chars on the line).
Yes. The file sample2e.tex demonstrates the use of '\\' in the 'verse' environment.
I now have the following wanting to fully justify the lines but it doesn’t.
Well, you must choose what do you want. If you let LaTeX fully justify your text, you don't control line endings, otherwise you can put \\ to say 'Hey I want a line ending here'.
If you want a shorter quoting you could use a different size to \parbox.
As an example you can use \parbox{0.7\linewidth}
to limit the parbox to 70% of your linewidth.
Cheers,
LEslie
#+BEGIN_SRC latex :noexport:
\parbox{\linewidth}{\small
war. The longer a war lasts, the more things tend to depend on acci-\\
dents. Neither you nor we can see into them: we have to abide their\\
outcome in the dark. And when people are entering upon a war they\\
do things the wrong way round. Action comes first, and it is only\\
when they have already suffered that they begin to think. We, how-\\
ever, are still far removed from such a mistaken attitude; so, to the\\
best of our belief, are you. And so we urge you, now, while we are\\
both still free to make sensible decisions, do not break the peace,\\
do not go back upon your oaths; instead let us settle our differences\\
by arbitration, as is laid down in the treaty. If you will not do so, we\\
shall have as our witnesses the gods who heard our oaths. You will\\
have begun the war, and we shall attempt to meet you in any and\\
every field of action that you may choose.}
#+END_SRC
Leslie H. Watter