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From: gerard@caliban.soest.Hawaii.Edu (Gerard Fryer)
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Subject: Re: Double spacing in LaTeX?
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Date: 26 Dec 90 22:09:08 GMT
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In article <28771@mimsy.umd.edu>, chris@mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek)
points that
>LaTeX deliberately makes a number of common typographical mistakes
>difficult---or more precisely, it does not provide pre-packaged
>mistakes.
Hence LaTeX does not conveniently allow double spacing.  That's all well
and good, but the problem is that most journals still operate in the
send-hard-copy-out-to-the-reviewer mode and so insist on double spacing
for reviewers' convenience in hacking your masterwork to pieces.

There is a relatively painless way of approximating double spacing:
Right after \begin{document}, adjust the baselineskip (e.g. for 11-pt,
try \baselineskip.3in).  It's a bit of a kludge, but it works tolerably
well and is easy to get rid of before submitting the final
author-produced copy.
Gerard Fryer  (gerard@caliban.soest.hawaii.edu)
School of Ocean & Earth Science & Technology
University of Hawaii at Manoa