{line-spacing} is about adjusting the space between the lines of a document. A popular package is {setspace}.
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\setstretch and fixme package. How to reset stretch to 1 for fixmes?
I am using
\usepackage{setspace}
\setstretch{1.5}
\usepackage[status=draft,layout=margin]{fixme}
in my document preamble. The notes are therefore also set with 1.5 stretch. How can I avoid that?
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Custom name & justification, single line spread and “within chapter” numbering of figure captions [closed]
I now know how to add images with captions but still need help how to tweak the captions.
\begin{figure}[h]
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=100mm]{01.jpg}
\caption*{\textbf{Bild 2.1:} Curtiss ...
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Line spacing in report [closed]
I need your help. I'm using this command:
\renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{1.5}
\normalsize
to create a spacing between the lines. But I'm still not sure where to insert it, wether before the ...
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line spacing in lstinputlisting with floats
I have a document with many code listings using \lstinputlisting. Some are floats for convenience and some (multipage listings or others that need explicit placement) do not float.
If the listing ...
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Changing line spacing within a new command
I have a command written as follows:
\documentclass[12pt]{book}
\usepackage{setspace}
\newcommand{\statshyp}[2]{\noindent \hangindent=1cm \hangafter=0
\begin{singlespace*}
\textbf{#1}: \emph{#2}
...
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Reduce spacing between lines and stacked subscripts with mathop
I am using the following code to typeset a minus (or a plus) under a syllable of text to be used for chant:
\def\mi#1{$\displaystyle{\mathop{\mbox{\smash {#1}}}_{\scriptscriptstyle -}}$}
This ...
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How move each line in text
In steganography is an interesting way of conveying information.
Each line is either raised by a few points or not raised at all.
How will cause it to subsequent lines of text have been raised about ...
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Is there something between singlespace and onehalfspace?
Perhaps there is a trivial solution for this, but I wonder if there is anything between singlespace and onehalfspace. The reason is that, when I use singlespace it seems to be very compact while ...
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Linespread in titlepage with \huge [duplicate]
What is the right way to increase the line height or spacing between lines in the titlepage environment when you have \huge titles?
I tried to increase it using the \linespread command but whatever ...
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Centering consecutive two lines of text without extra space between them
I have two lines of text written in Lyx. I'm trying to center it without placing extra vertical space between lines.
I selected the text, then went to Menu > Edit > Paragraph Settings. There, I can ...
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How can I set single line spacing for \enumerate amd \section?
I want to set \enumerate and \section to use single line spacing and small font like the table of content in this document. How can I do that? Thank you.
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Why does \tiny in \begingroup \endgroup change the linespread? [duplicate]
\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}
\begin{document}
\begingroup
\tiny \blindtext
\endgroup
\tiny \blindtext
...
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`\setspace` and `\enumerate`
Forgive the long listing, worried about the behavior of some packages. I am looking to fix the space between text and enumerated list as I switch between \singlespace and \doublespace. Note the ...
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Double-spaced paragraphs, single-spaced headers
I am using the "setspace" package to format my document with double spacing (requirement for an assignment).
One of my section headers takes up two lines, though, and these section headers look better ...
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Different line spacing in textmode and mathmode
At first I was using \linespread{2} but my research told me to use the package setspace. I did this and everything is fine however in align* environments, my equations get double spaced also which ...
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Set the line separation in a tabu table equal to the line separation in the document
As is known, the tabu environment does not automatically adjust the vertical distance between a cell with multiple lines and another cell, cf. Text too close to cell border when having a nested tabu ...
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Reproducing Foreign Affairs Magazine's Style
I wanted to reproduce (or get something close to) the style the Foreign Affairs magazine uses (link to a sample article below) using fontspec and XeLaTeX. Right off the bat I don't know what their ...
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Make lstlisting honour baselinestretch
I have to use lstlisting instead of Verbatim in a particular case, because math escape doesn't work properly with the latter. I managed to have both look the same, but lstlisting ignores my ...
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Change textwidth for 1 line only
I am writing a resume. I have a line with my email, ph etc below my name. I want this line to start at same margin as the Objective below and similarly stop where the text below stops. I figured i ...
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Determine height of the line you are in
Is there a way in PDFLaTeX to determine the height of the line you are in? Maybe something similar to PDFsavepos.
In a normal line (i.e. no heading etc.), you might approximate the height by a fixed ...
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Is it possible to use an \hdashrule inside a \ctable as a \midrule?
I would like to know if there is a way to use an \hdashrule or \hdashline inside a \ctableas a \midrule? If possible, it will obey to the same rules as the \midrule command, like adjusting ...
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Prevent large line spacing on lines containing “high” symbols
I am using the notation $\widetilde{\mathcal{F}_K}$ quite extensively in my paper. In each line where it appears, because the tilde makes the symbol a little higher than the other symbols, the line ...
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How to control line spacing and subscript location in captions?
I just started using mhchem and am having problems with captions. Subscripts from mchem overlap with superscripts. I can think of two possible solutions (and trivially not using mchem in captions):
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Why do I get this undesired vertical space between “chapter #” and Chapter Heading?
In my document, one of my chapter title lasts more than one line, so I want to increase the space between its lines. To do this, I used \linespread{1.8}\selectfont in the code below, but by using ...
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How to (automatically) determine a visually appealing line spread?
I'm writing a "larger" document with a lot of mathematics. Occasionally, I use a notation like
p \xrightarrow{\mathcal A^X} q
which produces tall lines. LaTeX increases the line spread for those ...
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\vbox with some extra space below
I don't understand why when using \vbox of a certain height, there is some extra space added below it.
I'm trying - towards grid typesetting - to put for example graphics in the vbox of a certain ...
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2answers
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Line spacing with inline formula including fraction
I have a fraction in an inline formula as can be seen in the picture.
\dfrac from the amsmath package was used. (This is article class with 14pts and linespread 0.9.)
Though the space between the ...
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2answers
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Changes in spacing (“Spacing” environment) for a block should not affect the line spacing of the block to the material above and below
When I use memoir with \OnehalfSpacing and I temporarily set things within \begin{Spacing}{1}[...]\end{Spacing} (\SingleSpacing for some reason leads to looser spacing elsewhere in my document), I get ...
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Acronyms list size
\appendix
\chapter{Acronyms}
\singlespace
\begin{acronym}
\acro{BLAS}{Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms}
\acro{CLR}{Common Language Runtime}
\acro{DBMS}{Data Base Management System}
...
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Cannot temporarily increase line spacing [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Temporarily increase line spacing
I tried to follow these examples here Temporarily increase line spacing but in my case it didn't change anything.
I have to use a ...
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How to make a box with a height based on multiples of the current line height
How can I create (in XeLaTeX) a box that has a defined height in multiples of lines that keeps this size 100% without any additional spacings?
Please see the following MWE:
\documentclass{article}
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How to improve row vector appearance inside paragraph? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Parentheses size around matrix
When using a row vector inside paragraph with double line spacing the output looks ugly (imo) because the brackets are too tall and much ...
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Change lineskip to fill the available space
Is there a way to change lineskip such that the text fills up a certain space?
MWE
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\begin{document}
\begin{minipage}[c][\textheight]{\linewidth}
...
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Vertical spacing of text changes in a macro depending on input
I defined a keynote macro to insert key ideas in my document using varwidth. The document is in \doublespacing and I have defined \singlespacing inside my macro. However, the correct spacing is ...
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Controlling space after heading when doublespaced
I'm writing a document with both doublespaced and singlespaced sections. I'm using the setspace package to do the doublespacing and the koma-script report class for the document. In the double spaced ...
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Recreating a letterhead
I am using a .cls template to generate a letterhead for my resume, by the following snippet:
\def\namefont{\huge\bf}
\def\@linename{\begingroup
\def\\{, }
{\namefont\@name}
\vskip 2pt
...
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vertical spacing in array with double-spacing
Double-spacing seems to mess up the vertical spacing inside of arrays. For example, the braces below extend too high. Is there a way to have the array contents centered vertically within the braces?
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4answers
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How does one stop automatic line spacing increases when typesetting tall math symbols?
Often when typesetting mathematics, one wants to use math symbols in line. When these are certain symbols, or more often, decorated symbols, whose height is sufficiently large, the line spacing (that ...
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remove double spacing inside {verbatim}
I'm using the uwthesis class which generally typesets with a lot of
space between lines. This is generally fine, however, I want to override
the spacing in certain examples which appear in the ...
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3answers
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Anchors/coordinates inside a node's text
The plot
Using tikz, I have a main node containing several (three) lines of text, and three "legend" nodes that point to them.
If I use a rectangle node, then I can't access the positions of the ...
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line spacing of Proof [closed]
I'm using the \linespread{1.8} for line spacing of my document in class offered by my university. Also, I'm using the \begin{proof} of the amsthm package. However, this \linespread{1.8} command is not ...
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Why the \doublespacing command in LaTeX actually produce 1.6 times spacing? (Compared to Pages '09 4.2, 12pt, Times New Roman) [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What does ‘double spacing’ mean?
Why the \doublespacing command in LaTeX actually produce 1.6 times spacing? (Compared to Pages '09 4.2, 12pt, Times New Roman)
I am ...
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votes
1answer
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How to modify line spacing in algorithm / algpseudocode?
I want to increase line spacing between statements in algorithm environment. I used the setspace package as here, but it also affects the space between line breaks that is not wanted. The following is ...
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1answer
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Adjusting the line spacing of chapter headings in the book/report class
In my report, some chapter headings are long and they come in more than one line. The spacing between them is not aesthetically appealing. I need to reduce that line spacing.
Kindly suggest a ...
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votes
1answer
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Help with adjusting line-spacing on custom title page
I'm making a custom title page for my phd proposal, following the Title Creation article of Latex in Wikipedia. However, after many tries I just can't get the title to have a bigger line-spacing. I ...
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1answer
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Number of lines in double spacing (compared to Word)
I am a newbie to LaTeX. I noticed that my document is almost a page longer in Word compared to LaTeX. (~7.25 in latex, ~8.25 in Word). This seems to be because my Word document has 23 lines per page, ...
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1answer
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Expanding line height when equations have displaystyle fractions
In my document, I have got a lot of equations in inline mode, like:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
Eu sit tincidunt incorrupte definitionem, vis mutat affert percipit cu, eirmod
...
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1answer
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Change line spacing inside the document
This is my code
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{book}
\renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{1.5}
\begin{document}
\include{Chapter1}
\end{document}
I have please a question:
I would change the line ...
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1answer
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ConTeXt (mkiv) bibliography not respecting \setupinterlinespace[big]
Early in my document I have \setupinterlinespace[big] for double-spacing per course requirements. However, when I do \placepublications[criterium=all], it doesn't seem to respect this. In other words, ...
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I need help with an assignment [closed]
Why are they still different? THe positioning is messed up in some areas. The assignment was to make an identical document.
http://pdfcast.org/pdf/latex-3
http://pdfcast.org/pdf/latex-2
