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Subject: RE: LaTeX line spacing...
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Date: 14 Feb 91 17:42:44 GMT
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**  On Thu, 14 Feb 1991 08:27:47 CST, Kim A. Tan <KATAN@CGRVAX.UWaterloo.CA>
**  asks:
**  > 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!
**
**  There is a generally-available style file in LaTeX, doublespace.sty, which
**  handles this for you.  I have just now placed it for retrieval on
**  FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET as DOUBLESPACE.STY.  To get this file, send the
**  command SENDME STY.DOUBLESPACE in the body of a MAIL message to
**  FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET.  This style turns off doublespacing in floats and
**  footnotes and allows for toggling between double and single spacing in a
**  document.
 
The original post asks a ``simple'' solution I don't understand why
people tend to give ``complicated'' solution. I am surprised that it
needs a doublespace.sty to do double spacing. As a Plain TeX user, I
may underestimate the problem you have. The following ``simple'' LaTeX
file I wrote using Plain TeX commands switch back and forth between
double spacing and single spacing [or any kind of spacing with slight
modifications], am I so naive?
 
\documentstyle{article}
\begin{document}
 
\multiply\baselineskip by 2
 
I am not a \LaTeX user so I don't know much about \LaTeX. I think \LaTeX
is designed the way it is, if you ask it to do something it was not designed,
it is not fair.
 
\baselineskip=0.5\baselineskip
\bigskip
 
In that case, I think you need to use Plain \TeX\ instead of \LaTeX.
Thanks for eplain, we Plain \TeX users have both the \LaTeX's convenience
and Plain \TeX's flexibilility.
 
\multiply\baselineskip by 2
 
As I said in the first paragraph, I am not a \LaTeX user. The solution I
provide here used \TeX\ commands. Is this waht the original post asks?
 
\end{document}