I have a document with many occurrences of
\begin{tabular}
...
\end{tabular}
I have been unable to find a global command that will reduce the vertical space before and after this environment. Any help appreciated. Here is the context:
\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{setspace,relsize,needspace,etoolbox}
\makeatletter
\preto{\@verbatim}{\topsep=-1.5pt \partopsep=-1pt }
\makeatother
\parskip 14pt
\parindent 0ex
\setstretch{1}
\begin{document}
\rule{\linewidth}{1mm}
\vspace*{\stretch{2}}
\vspace{.3in}
. . .
\begin{spacing}{0.7}
\vbox{\noindent\textbf{re : Race/Ethnicity}
{\smaller
\begin{tabular}{ rrr }
n&missing&unique \\
4269&0&5 \end{tabular}
\begin{verbatim}
Mexican American (744, 17%), Other Hispanic (478, 11%)
Non-Hispanic White (2103, 49%), Non-Hispanic Black (762, 18%)
Other Race Including Multi-Racial (182, 4%)
\end{verbatim}
}}
As Peter Grill stated (even though I didn't write a completely executable example) the act of simplifying is very useful - I think the \parskip
is much of my problem. I think a solution to this is:
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\makeatletter
\preto{\@tabular}{\parskip=0pt}
\makeatother
which gets rid of extra space before the tabular but leaves too much afterwards.
The reason I've set parskip
and parindent
as I have (14pt
, 0ex
) is that this is for handouts for a course that also look decent when projected on a screen, i.e., this is a cross between printed and projected material.
tabular
doesn't add any vertical skip.\documentclass
and the appropriate packages so that those trying to help don't have to recreate it. Personally, I have often solved my own problems in the process of reducing the amount of code actually required to reproduce the problem.