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What does \\ do in the Large environment?
I assume you are referring to the different linespacing shown by the following example:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{center}
\begin{LARGE}
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur ...
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On vertical spacing
You can think of leaders as control sequences that take two arguments: \leaders<box><glue>. The box can contain anything! For testing is best to use something that is not dots! I use ...
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Setting the value for \baselineskip with \setlength does not have any effect
What is wrong with my code?
You need to issue the instruction
\setlength{\baselineskip}{13pt}
after, not before, \begin{document}.
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Wrong line spacing inside new environment
If you look at the definition of spacing by setspace.sty you see (comments removed)
\newenvironment{spacing}[1]{%
\par
\begingroup
\setstretch {#1}%
}{%
\restore@spacing
}
and now you see ...
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How can I see how many pts "singlespace" is?
You can run
\documentclass{memoir}
\begin{document}
\makeatletter
\typeout {%
Fontsize: \f@size pt / Baselineskip: \the\baselineskip
}
\makeatother
\end{document}
This will show
Fontsize: 10pt / ...
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mqty looks ugly due to bad vertical spacing
TeX is unable to calculate the line spacing relative to the postion of large object in the lines. It doesn't know, if the large object are one above to second or (as in your example) these large ...
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mqty looks ugly due to bad vertical spacing
I don't see how \mqty{1 \\ 1 \\ 2 \\ 0} is easier to type or at least clearer than
\begin{bmatrix} 1 \\ 1 \\ 2 \\ 0 \end{bmatrix}
I would keep at arm's distance from physics, but you're to judge ...
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mqty looks ugly due to bad vertical spacing
I suggest you (a) transpose the vectors when they're used in inline math mode and (b) not hesitate to use display math mode. E.g.:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{mathtools,amssymb,amsthm}
\...
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I have a weird space between two lines in my work
Compare
\documentclass[12pt]{report}
\title{%
\large
Line A\\
Line B\\
Line C%
}%
\author{}
\date{}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\end{document}
to
\documentclass[12pt]{report}
\title{%
...
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On vertical spacing
Quoting the TeXbook, first dangerous bend on page 224, which refers to an example on page 223:
Notice that the dots in the two example lines appear exactly
above each other. This is not a coincidence;...
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Remove space between two lines
You're overcomplicating things. Why using \fbox when you're doing a tcolorbox that has full capabilities of making a frame?
Why using a \parbox that's not raised and just smashed at the bottom when, ...
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Change line spacing inside the document
Instead of redefining \baselinestretch, you can set a new value to \linespread and apply the changes with \selectfont:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\linespread{1.0}\selectfont
Lorem ipsum ...
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Tikz use custom label in enumeration causes line spacing to be too large
Perhaps something like this.
It tells the tikz nodes size to be ignored (overlay), then make space for it in the design of the list.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\newcommand*\zzzz[1]{
...
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Setting the value for \baselineskip with \setlength does not have any effect
Changing \baselineskip at begin document is not enough, because every \normalsize declaration would change it back, for instance in a minipage.
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\setlength{\...
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I have a weird space between two lines in my work
You're loading titling but not using its features.
\documentclass[12pt]{report}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{titling}
\graphicspath{ {images/...
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How would you format to be cleaner and explain the steps better? Do I have any no no's in my latex?
Do I have any no no's in my latex [code]?
Short answer: Yes.
Longer answer:
All-blank lines are not allowed in any of the multi-row math environments of the amsmath package.
Learn about the \...
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I want to increase the line spacing in the following array table, what should I do?
A possible solution is to use the tabularray package:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath,amssymb,tabularray}
\begin{document}
\[
\begin{tblr}{cells=c,rowsep=3pt,hlines,vlines}
X & 1 &...
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How can I make my formula fit properly in a 2 column page latex document?
You probably want multline rather than align as it's a single long expression not two expressions with alignment points, also it takes less space.
\documentclass[twocolumn]{article}
\usepackage{...
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decrease table wrapped text spacing
The cells display the required line space since you set \renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{1.5} (I hope you didn't do that only for the table, otherwise you should better use \renewcommand{\arraystretch}{...
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votes
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Correct line spacing when changing font size without causing the end of the paragraph
You can record the position of the end of the small text and then back up to start the large text at that position, takes two runs.
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{lipsum}...
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Line spacing in systeme
The \systeme command uses low level TeX constructs that depend on \baselineskip, but don't take into account arraystretch.
There is no method implemented in the package, but a simple patch works. Here ...
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How to add some vertical space in ConTeXt
Your example looks like something which is best set with the description mechanism where you can set different styles for the title and content.
\define[1]\QuestionTitle
{\offset[x=-1em]{#1}}
\...
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Is there a command to point out everywhere the default line spacing is being changed by math formulas?
Add \showoutput to your preamble and then check the log for \lineskip which is added to lines when they are too large to allow \baselineskip spacing.
logs
....\OT1/cmr/m/n/10 c
....\OT1/cmr/m/n/10 c
....
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Why does the vertical (line) spacing scrunch up for certain paragraphs?
(La)TeX "freezes" several characteristics of a paragraph when the paragraph ends. One of these is the baseline separation.
You have not ended the previous paragraph when starting a new ...
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Remove space between two lines
You could use something like \offinterlineskip to switch the space between lines off:
\documentclass[]{article}
\usepackage[most]{tcolorbox}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\NewDocumentEnvironment{cvArray}{m}{...
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votes
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Avoid the warning "What does the phrase "Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph", while keeping the line space as using \\[<space>]
Try this in plain TeX:
text of the first paragraph\nobreak\hfil\break\par
next paragraph
\bye
You can see Underfull \hbox mesage and empty line is inserted after the first paragraph. Why? The \par ...
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Line spacing in title of Beamer poster
You want
to end the current paragraph before switching back to a smaller font
the second argument with the baseline skip should normally be bigger than the font size
I'd also avoid adding spaces ...
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decrease table wrapped text spacing
If you are going to change \baselinestretch, it is probably better to use setspace so you have ready-made means to alter it and some of the side-effects are mitigated for you. However, you should know ...
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I want to increase the line spacing in the following array table, what should I do?
With {NiceArray} of nicematrix, you have an option cell-space-limits to set a minimal space above and below each cell. Moreover, the key hvlines draws all the rules.
\documentclass{article}
\...
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How to add some vertical space in ConTeXt
Just to show how to get what you are used to with LaTeX:
\starttext
{\it Qu’osa-t-il ?}\\\blank[1pt]Il fit un écrit\\
{\it Qu’osa-t-il ?} \blank[1pt]Il fit un écrit\\
% ^ diff here
% ...
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