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I was trying to compose my CV (as a mathematician) in LaTeX, and found the document class res on CTAN that appealed to me aesthetically. The cls file for this document class can be found here: http://ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/resume/res.cls.

However, there is a strange problem with the tabular environment in this class. The row spacing is insufficient when a paragraph cell has multiple lines. Consider the following example (using res.cls linked above):

\documentclass{res}

\begin{document}

\begin{tabular}{p{4in}}
  Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Proin a justo
  in lorem. \\
  Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Proin a justo
  in lorem. \\
  Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Proin a justo
  in lorem. \\
\end{tabular}

\end{document}

The output I get is:

output with <code>res.cls</code>

As you can see, adjacent rows are too close—the letters "j" and "L" almost touched each other.

In comparison, below is what I get from amsart (replacing res with amsart in the above code snippet):

output with <code>amsart</code>

and below is what I get from article:

output with <code>article</code>

Both of these have much reasonable spacing.

Since I know nothing about document class writing, could anyone help me look into res.cls and identify what's wrong with the spacing? And is it possible to somehow fix this issue in res.cls? Thanks in advance.

I am fully aware that this question might be too localized to be constructive; however, I can't find other helpful sources to resolve this issue. Sure I might have an answer myself after reading the TeXbook or other multi-hundred-page TeX programming reference manuals, but this is not so realistic for a lay LaTeX user who focuses mainly on content (after all, content is what LaTeX emphasizes). I apologize for my potential abuse of this site.

By the way, if you know any simple and elegant CV document class suitable for mathematicians (in academia), you are more than welcome to leave me a comment. Thanks.

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  • You might redefine \arraystretch in your preamble: \renewcommand\arraystretch{1.25}, for instance (you must load the array package).
    – Bernard
    Jan 11, 2014 at 22:47
  • @Bernard Thanks Bernard. \arraystretch almost solves the problem (is there any harmful side effect, btw? I know that a stretched struct is inserted into every row; does it have effects on other macros?) However, I'm a bit reluctant to use this workaround, because when the rows are stretched, line spacing inside a multi-line cell is also stretched; the spacing throughout the document is not uniform this way. (And in fact, the space between two rows is still a bit thinner than inside a cell, only less noticeable.)
    – 4ae1e1
    Jan 11, 2014 at 23:34
  • As far as I know, line spacing is not affected by \arraystretch – unless I'm completely mistaken. A solution could be to change the value of \arraystretch to some greater value. Another solution would be to use \setlength{\extrarowheight}{n pt}, choosing n so that the inter-row spacing seems correct.
    – Bernard
    Jan 12, 2014 at 0:09
  • @Bernard Oops I'm super sorry about reporting the wrong problem—I temporarily confused myself. What I actually mean is that the vertical space between two single-line p cells is also stretched (notice that the original issue only occurs when the p cell spans multiple lines).
    – 4ae1e1
    Jan 12, 2014 at 1:10
  • The res class is dated 1989; a revision for making it compatible with LaTeX2e has been made in 2001. There are far better classes for CVs.
    – egreg
    Jan 12, 2014 at 1:12

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I don't think I've found a satisfactory answer, so what I did in the end was to manually stick \vspace when appropriate.

Or you could try \usepackage{array}, which does solve the problem for the minimal example, but might have other problems when things are more complicated.

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  • I thought you said that \usepackage{array} fixed everything? That would have been a better self-answer than this one. :-)
    – Paul Gessler
    Feb 16, 2015 at 6:13
  • @PaulGessler This is an old question and I can't remember the details. But I did briefly inspect my final source code (which hasn't been modified much in the past year) and found that I just used \vspace in the end. I guess that's because \usepackage{array} solves the problem for the MWE but could bring up other issues.
    – 4ae1e1
    Feb 16, 2015 at 6:20

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