What is wrong with the line spacing of my lists of figures and tables?

Question

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}
\usepackage[francais, english]{babel}
\usepackage[applemac]{inputenc}
\usepackage{textcomp}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{enumerate}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage[bf,figurewithin=none,tablewithin=none]{caption}
\usepackage{verbatim}
\usepackage{tocloft}

% Margins
\usepackage[left=4cm, right=2cm, top=3cm, bottom=2cm]{geometry}


% Nomenclature -> List of Abbreviations
\usepackage[intoc]{nomencl}
\renewcommand{\nomname}{List of Abbreviations}
\makenomenclature

% Make magic URL
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage[all]{hypcap}
\hypersetup{
    pdfborder = {0 0 0 0}
}

% APA style referencing
\usepackage{natbib}

% Hack for URL serif font formating
\let\oldUrl\url
\renewcommand{\url}[1] { \urlstyle{same}\oldUrl{#1} }

% ToC & Abbreviations in the ToC
\usepackage[chapter]{tocbibind}

% Widows & Orphans
\widowpenalty=10000
\clubpenalty=10000

\begin{document}
\selectlanguage{english}

\frontmatter

% --------------------------Table of Contents--------------
\renewcommand{\contentsname}{Table of Contents}
\setcounter{tocdepth}{1}
\tableofcontents

% --------------------------List of Abbreviations----------
\clearpage
\printnomenclature[3 cm]

% --------------------------List of Figures-------------------
\clearpage
\listoffigures
\listoftables

Do you have any idea what is going on with the line spacing?

Answer 1

After much trying to replicate the behavior in a "minimal example", I actually found out what is happening. First let me say that I tried both ways: trying to recreate the behavior from scratch by adding bricks, and trying to provide a minimal example by removing bricks from my original document.

Finally, and sort of thanks to this other question, I found out that my "behavior" is not actually a bug, but a feature! In fact, what you can't really guess from my picture up there, is that all my figures were in the same chapter (document class is "book"), while all tables are in different chapters. Hence the line spacing for the tables, but not the figures, which symbolizes the chapter changes.

Anyway, sorry for bothering you and for not getting back to you earlier. Now I am going to try and see how I can add a line space between all figures and tables, independently from the fact that they are in the same chapter or not.

Answer 2

On my system, appending the following to your example

\begin{figure}\caption{Something}\end{figure}
\begin{figure}\caption{Something}\end{figure}
\begin{figure}\caption{Something}\end{figure}

\begin{table}\caption{Something}\end{table}
\begin{table}\caption{Something}\end{table}
\begin{table}\caption{Something}\end{table}

\end{document}

produces a document where spacing between lines are all fine. Please do try to build a minimal and complete example that reproduces the bug.