[Tex/LaTex] Smaller parskip than half for KOMA-Script

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I am using the documentclass scrbook. To mark paragraphs I need both vertical spacing and indentation.

I know that KOMA-Script supports the option parskip or halfparskip, however, this disables the indentation. In order to get it back I declared \setlength{\parindent}{1.5em} in the preamble.

Since I am using both vertical spacing and indentation, I would like to have even smaller spacing than halfparskip. Is it possible to get an even smaller parskip than half in KOMA-Script?

Best Answer

You could use something like

\setparsizes{1em}{0.25\baselineskip plus .25\baselineskip}{1em plus 1fil}.

The first value is parindent, the second parskip, the third parfilskip. "half" uses 0.5 in the second argument.

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\documentclass[a4paper,12pt,parskip=full]{scrartcl} 
% \usepackage{fontspec}
\linespread{1.2}
\begin{document}
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  parskip: \the\parskip\\
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[Tex/LaTex] How to Specify Intermediate Font Sizes in Koma-Script

Just to have the code properly:

The warning is very clear, you are using an option that is not defined. Set the fontsize the way it is supposed to be. If you are not setting it globally (as an option to documentclass) but at a later point using \KOMAoption{fontsize}{4pt} you need to tell package typearea to recalc the typearea.

\documentclass[
fontsize=8.5pt,
paper=a6,
pagesize
]{scrartcl}
%\KOMAoption{fontsize}{8.5pt}
%\recalctypearea
\usepackage{blindtext}
\begin{document}
\blindtext
\end{document}

But you need to be aware of something: Just because you can request a font of any given size, you need to have that size available. If not, LaTeX will fall back to the next matching available font size.

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