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From: tvz@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Timothy Van Zandt)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: LaTeX line spacing...
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Date: 14 Feb 91 15:37:18 GMT
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In article <5E6FF2152000E392@post-office.uh.edu> KATAN@CGRVAX.UWaterloo.CA ("Kim A. Tan") writes:
>Good day!
> 
>I have a question about single spacing Table in a double spacing (set by
>\beselinestretch=2.0) document. Is there a easy solution to have
>single spacing Tables in a double spacing document? Thanks!
> 

Just reset the baselinestretch in the beginning of the table environment
and set it back at the end.

Two caveats: 

1. \baselinestretch takes on its newly assigned value only when
there is a type-size change (or a \begin{document}). Just put
something like \large\normalsize after you redefine \baselinestretch.

2. The positioning of \renewcommand{\baselinestretch} is important so that
you change the spacing in a table, but not in surrounding text. For example,
suppose that you have a tabular environment inside a table or center
environment. Changing the spacing within the tabular environment has no
effect. Changing the spacing before the center environment may also change
the spacing of the paragraph the centering environment is part of. This
works:

\begin{center}
\tablespacing
\begin{tabular}{cc}
  foo & bar \\
\end{tabular}
\linespacing
\end{center}

if in the preamble you have the following definitions:

\newcommand{\linespacing}{\renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{2}\large\normalsize}
\newcommand{\tablespacing}{\renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{1}\large\normalsize}