how would I go about manipulating the line spacing in the preamble? I am using the 'book' document class.
Thanks a lot.
As described in the comments above, you may use setspace
package for adjusting line spacing.
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[math]{blindtext}
\usepackage{setspace}
%\singlespacing
\onehalfspacing
%\doublespacing
% or
%\setstretch{1.25} %% change this number as you wish. 1.667 is double spacing.
\begin{document}
\blinddocument
\end{document}
If you don't want to use packages
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[math]{blindtext}
\def\baselinestretch{3}
\begin{document}
\blinddocument
\end{document}
or
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[math]{blindtext}
\setlength{\baselineskip}{3\baselineskip}
\begin{document}
\blinddocument
\end{document}
If you want to complicate things further
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[math]{blindtext}
\newcommand{\setlinespacing}[1]%
{\setlength{\baselineskip}{#1 \baselineskip}}
\def\baselinestretch{1}
\begin{document}
\setlinespacing{3} %% this is not triple line spacing
\blinddocument
\end{document}
Hope I have confused you enough with more complicated scenarios. Better use setspace
package and live happy. :-)
setspace
is commonly used to change the line spacing of documents.usepackage{setspace}
might be a good idea. and then\onehalfspacing
. I really can't be more specific, as the question (currently) is very unclear.setspace
package is\setstretch{value}
. But beware things are not as simple as one might think. For instance, ‘doublespacing’ does not mean\setstretch{2}
, but a value which slightly varies with the font size, and is approximately1.667