I tried
"aaaaaa<space><space>
bbbbbb"
and
"aaaaaa
bbbbbb".
Both gives me paragraphs that are placed one right below the other, with no spaces between them.
Thanks,
Neither html nor pdfLaTeX allow you to do line breaks that way. Try
"aaaaaa
$BR
$BR
$BR
$BR
$BR
bbbbbb".
If you look at
http://webwork.maa.org/pod/pg_TRUNK/macros/PGbasicmacros.pl.html#display_constants
you will see a list of the display constants that can be used in WeBWorK problems.
You should use these since they give the correct output on the screen (html), on hard copy (pdflatex), and (previously) on other no longer used methods. Further, if in the future WeBWorK uses a new output method, the developers will only have to modify the macros (e.g. $BR) and all problems using $BR will work properly in the new output method.
Arnie
Sorry I forgot to mention that I am using PGML. I achieved the effect using
[@ $PAR @]*.
Just wondering if there is some more elegant way to do this in PGML. Thanks.
The first should produce two lines with no space between them, btu the second should do what you ask. It does for me. What version of WeBWorK and PG are you using, and what theme? At one point, there was a problem with the math4 theme that styles paragraphs so that they didn't have space between them, so you might have that version. But I believe that the math4 theme was fixed to prevent this problem.
I am using theme: math4 | ww_version: 2.7 | pg_version: 2.7|
I think the fixes for this were in 2.8. You might try upgrading to that. I have tried it in 2.8 and it works as expected.