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From: xiaofei@acsu.buffalo.edu (Xiaofei Wang)
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Subject: Re: LaTeX line spacing, revisited by a LaTeX user
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Date: 15 Feb 91 04:07:08 GMT
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In article <00944397.b47eab20.27440@SHSU.BITNET> bed_gdg@SHSU.BITNET ("George D. Greenwade") writes:
* xf> {\halign to 1.0 in{\hfil#\hfil&\hfil#\hfil\cr  %tabular and the TeX
* xf>  cattle&herd\cr                                %equivalent, but does it
* xf>  fish&school\cr                                %LaTeX's table which is
* xf>  lion&pride\cr}}                               %a float?  Not without a
* xf>                                                %lot more code?  Haven't
* xf> \begin{tabular}{|c|c|} \hline                  %tried it, but what happens
* xf> \begin{tabular}{c} Column \\ \#1 \end{tabular} &      %to footnotes here
* xf> \begin{tabular}{c} Column \#2 \end{tabular} \\ \hline %under this code?
* xf> 1985 & 43.2 \\ \hline                          %Remember, the question,
* xf> 1992 & 51.6 \\ \hline                          %from a LaTeX user, was
* xf> \end{tabular}                                  %about table!

Spacing in footnote is separately controled by ``\baselineskip'' also
just like the text. You can have single spaced, double spaced, etc.
footnote.  For example: 

\footnote{\multiply\baselineskip by 2 
I don't mean that \LaTeX\ is not good. All I am saying is one should
not ask \LaTeX\ to do things it does not do.}

produces a double spaced footnote.
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