Tabularx environment and linespread

Question

I use the command include{} to import .tex files from other sources, and in one of them is used a tabularx environment. While my main/base .tex file, which is where the other .tex's are imported into, uses the command linespread{2.0} in its preamble, which functions with no doubt, only the lines in tabularx are unaffected. No matter where I add \newcommand\linespread{2.0} again, the lines in tabularx are kept in 1.0 linespread. How can I change the linespread in the tabularx into 2.0?

Answer 1

Using David Carlisle's comment you get a line spacing of 2 with

• \usepackage[doublespacing]{setspace} for text
• \renewcommand\baselinestretch{2}\selectfont inside table environment

Code:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage[doublespacing]{setspace}

\begin{document}

\lipsum[1]

\begin{table}[h]
    \centering
    \renewcommand\baselinestretch{2}\selectfont
    \caption{example table}
    \begin{tabularx}{10cm}{|X|X|}
        \hline
        foo & bar\\ \hline
        foobar & foo\\ \hline
    \end{tabularx}
\end{table}

\lipsum[2]

\end{document}

Result: