[comp.text.tex] Double Spacing in LaTeX

terryb.bbs@shark.cs.fau.edu (terry bohning) (03/22/91)

I bet this is an old question, but how does one produce double-spaced
documents with LaTeX?

ftkcheng@violet.uwaterloo.ca (Felix Cheng) (03/23/91)

In article <N4L7y1w163w@shark.cs.fau.edu>, terryb.bbs@shark.cs.fau.edu (terry bohning) writes:
> I bet this is an old question, but how does one produce double-spaced
> documents with LaTeX?

If you want to change the overall line spacing of your document, specify
the command:
	\renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{2}
to produce double spacing, for example.  Usually a spacing of 1.5 of
single line spacing is more pleasing. This command does not require a
unit identifier. 

sabih@pico8.nt.el.utwente.nl (Sabih Gerez) (03/27/91)

In <N4L7y1w163w@shark.cs.fau.edu> terryb.bbs@shark.cs.fau.edu (terry
bohning) writes:

>I bet this is an old question, but how does one produce double-spaced
>documents with LaTeX?

I use the following two macros that I include in a style file; it allows me
to switch between single and double spacing arbitrarily.

%------------------------------------------------------------------------
% for a document with double spacing
%
% Somehow abstracts are typeset in single spacing; 
%------------------------------------------------------------------------

\def\SwitchtoDoubleSpacing{\multiply\baselineskip by 2}

\def\SwitchtoSingleSpacing{\divide\baselineskip by 2}


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