Hallo Van,

On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 7:51 AM Van L <van@scratch.space> 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



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Leslie H. Watter