Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!clyde.concordia.ca!nstn.ns.ca!news.cs.indiana.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!pacbell.com!ucsd!network.ucsd.edu!weber.ucsd.edu!nbeck From: nbeck@weber.ucsd.edu (Nathaniel Beck) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: LaTeX line spacing... Message-ID: Date: 14 Feb 91 22:03:46 GMT References: <9102141742.AA00137@autarch.acsu.buffalo.edu> Sender: news@network.ucsd.edu Lines: 69 Nntp-Posting-Host: weber.ucsd.edu In <9102141742.AA00137@autarch.acsu.buffalo.edu> xiaofei@ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU writes: >** On Thu, 14 Feb 1991 08:27:47 CST, Kim A. Tan >** 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. I think that the style setspace.sty is more flexible (and generally dominates) doublespace.sty. Not that doublespace.sty is bad. This is the end of useful information in this post. What follows is part of a flame war. For those not interested in rec.newsgroups.tex.which.is .better hit the n button now!. > >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? > TEX SOLUTION DELETED >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. > >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? > We have had more traffic on splitting rec.text.tex and the advantages of tex over latex in the last week than we have had useful traffic over that time period. (So I add to the useless traffic.) There are lots of issues to double spacing and single spacing. For example, even if idiot editors want double spaced output, you usually want single spaced footnotes at the bottom of the page. The setspace macro handles this (and other odd spacings) for you, automatically. Sure TeX can do this (you could even rewrite LaTeX). But I don't want to bother. Why keep reinventing the wheel. So I see nothing embarassing about using setspace.sty. It is nice to be able to use TeX directly for the situations when some nice person has not already provided a .sty, but there are a remarkable number of .sty files. So for those of us whose job it is to produce words (maybe even ideas?), not pretty output, but who like pretty output, the laTeX plus styles solution works pretty well. Flames to rec.comp.tex.newsgroups.which.is.better So let us keep to one happy newsgroup, since we all know that laTeX users really need to know some TeX and TeX users are pretty good with kill files. Neal Neal Beck Dept of Politcal Science, UCSD beck@ucsd.edu Dislaimer: The Regents pay me (a bit!) to distribute my opinions.