{line-spacing} is about adjusting the space between the lines of a document. A popular package is {setspace}.
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Explicit line spacing in revtex 4
I am required to use 13pt line spacing for a report and want to use revtex 4 as document class. However, I am not able to set the line spacing explicitly.
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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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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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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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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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Problem with vertical space in Memoir title
I've been struggling with titlingpage and Memoir a few hours, trying to make the document title have equal linespacing between its lines when using \\.
The code is:
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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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Help with report writing
I'm new to LaTeX and I'm creating a report for my project, the problem is that the font is not equivalent in all the PDF, and I inserted a PDF file containing a plot but it's not appearing in the ...
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Spaces around display math when using setspace
I'm using setspace package in the following way:
\usepackage{setspace}
\onehalfspacing
It works well, mostly very nice result, but the spaces around display math formulae had enlarged too and now ...
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3answers
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Extreme vertical spacing between list items & nested lists
How can I fine tune and reduce the vertical spacing of list items and nested lists so characters from lines above and below are almost pixel-touching each other?
Example:
UPDATE 1:
@egreg:
When ...
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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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How to doublespace a sidewaystable using setspace?
As a follow-up to a previous question, How to doublespace a table using setspace?, I found that the solution is not compatible with the sidewaystable environment defined in the rotating package.
I ...
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Overfull vbox with scrbook and setspacing
The following MWE gives me a lot of badbox warnings Overfull \vbox (1.39674pt too high) has occurred while \output is active [] with always the same value of 1.39674pt.
It seems to be related to the ...
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Lineheight of \huge text too small
I have the following two titles in my custom title page: (originally two different languages)
\begin{center}
{\Large
My Thesis\\
\vspace*{0.5cm}
\textbf{\huge
...
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Title page line spacing in Latex
I use this code on my title page:
{\large {Some College \\ Some Place \\ Some City}} \par}
The first two lines get normal spacing, but the third line gets little more bigger spacing. How can I have ...
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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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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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Setting the right linespread for kpfonts
Is this the right linespread for kpfonts?
\PassOptionsToPackage{nomath,oldstylenums,oldstyle,noamsmath,notextcomp}{kpfonts}
\RequirePackage{kpfonts}
\linespread{1}
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How to fix interline skip in LaTeX? [closed]
As far as I see \baselineskip and \lineskip are fixed lengths and don't have any plus/minus-es, but the distance between lines yet depends on the page. Even after the \raggedbottom command TeX still ...
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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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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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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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Spacing in footnote bibliography
I use the mla-paper package to write my papers. My supervisor has told me to cite the references in the footnote. So I have done this in the header:
\usepackage[style=mla,style=verbose]{biblatex}
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A equation skip problem (amsmath package and \above/belowdisplayskip)
I puzzled by a problem about math equation skip for days. I set the \lineskiplimit, \lineskip, \abovedisplayskip and others length macros before and after equations all to zero, but there has still ...
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1answer
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How can I stop LaTeX from overriding instructions on spacing?
I'm using LaTeX to typeset my thesis, using a class that some students at my school wrote to typeset according to the graduate school formatting requirements. The class uses the setspace package to ...
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Line spacing in wrapped table text
I have a document where the text is set to double spacing. I have some text inside tables, which I use the paragraphy specifier for. It wraps properly, but spacing is set to single. Is it possible to ...
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Make the contents of a sentence fit to a line?
I have been working on a resume. However, some of the text is going beyond a line. For instance, the "Thesis topic" here exceeds the single line as seen:
Here is the code:
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Draft footnote changes position
I use the prelim2e package to mark a document as a draft. This package puts a draft line below the normal footer that contains for example Preliminary version – May 15, 2012.
Usually this draft line ...
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1answer
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Problem with line spacing in Lyx 1.6.9
Maybe it's a silly thing, but in order to change line spacing to Double I have to "navigate" to Document>>Settings>>Text layout. If I click on the icon Paragraph Settings from the Lyx toolbar and ...
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votes
1answer
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Change line spacing inside a node in TikZ
Inside a TikZ node, one can force line breaks using \\ providing the align option of the node is set.
I would like to increase the line spacing inside a node. This can be done in the usual way with ...
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Context-sensitive newline macro
I'd like to write a new command putOnNewLine such that \putOnNewLine{ABC} puts ABC on a new line, with exactly one line's vertical space separating it from what has gone before.
It must also ...
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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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1answer
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Problems with overriding the values in a cls file
I'm writing a thesis and I'm trying to make the Table of Contents single spaced.
This question was asked before and I tried the following solution in my .tex file:
\begin{singlespace}
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1answer
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Forcing smaller line spacing (risking that text overlaps) in XeTeX
I am writing some XeTeX code to display Chinese text with ruby (tone marks, translation or pronunciation) above and below the characters. If on any one line, I have ruby below, and then on the next ...
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Change the spacing between lines of section title [closed]
I changed the fontsize of my section title using the following code:
\renewcommand\section{\@startsection{section}{1}{\z@}%
{-2ex \@plus -1ex \@minus -2ex}%
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Make all \begin{quote} … \end{quote} blocks single spaced with setspace? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Reduce the space between a quotation and a title
I am writing a double-spaced paper using the setspace package. I need quotations to be formatted with single spacing, ...
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figure overrides linespacing
I am using framed package to draw a box around some texts. When I compile it without wrapping it up in the figure command I have no problem. However, when I use it like this:
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Beamer: Line spacing in title
I have a long title for my beamer presentation and ue the \titlepage{} command. The title is automatically split over 4 lines. As I am using a tall font (arev), these lines are squashed together. I ...
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beamer note spacing issue
I’m having a problem with beamer, where the first paragraph in a note has different spacing from subsequent ones.
MWE:
\AtBeginDocument{\setbeameroption{show notes on second screen=left}}
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What is wrong with the line spacing of my lists of figures and tables?
Since a good picture is better than a long text, here is the problem:
And here is most of my Latex file up to this point:
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,oneside]{book}
\usepackage{setspace}
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baselinestretch vs. setspace
In my preamble I use \renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{1.5} to get "onehalf" line spacing. This works fine.
Then I started to use tnote in a threeparttable.
I changed font size to \scriptsize as I ...
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1answer
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Set pagemargins and linedistance
I'm using a template for this document and I want to set the margins to 2.5cm on each side. The top of my .tex file looks like this:
% $Id: $
\pdfpxdimen=1in
\divide\pdfpxdimen by 150
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1answer
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Mimic memoir ToC layout in titletoc output
I with the help of a previous answer on here Different tocdepth for main toc and in-section toc, I have made it so my titletoc is able to contain subsections while my main toc does not have them. ...
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1answer
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Reduce the spacing of the Table of Contents
How do I reduce the line spacing in my Table of Contents?
I tried with \renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{1} but it doesn't...
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onehalfspacing in titlepage
How to make onehalfspacing in titlepage? I tried to add \onehalfspacing command in different places there, however, no spaces were produced.
\begin{titlepage}
...
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Linespacing only for main text body
In a LaTeX beamer document, is there a way to change line spacing only for the main text body - i.e. for everything between \begin{frame} and \end{frame}? In particular if using \linespread and its ...
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In a tabular, how do I reduce the vertical space in a wrapped text?
In a tabular, I am using the commands that allows you to wrap your text:
\begin{tabular}{m{5cm} m{13cm} m{5cm}}
but I would like to change the vertical space between the different lines of the ...
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Glossaries \glossarypostamble - set text single spaced
I use the package setspace to set my text single spaced. My list of tables, list of abbreviations and so on I set with the command \onehalfspacing.
Furthermore I need an annotation in all lists. This ...
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1answer
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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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2answers
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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 ...
