Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!jarthur!freke.claremont.edu!dhosek From: dhosek@freke.claremont.edu (Don Hosek) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: RE: LaTeX line spacing... Message-ID: <1991Feb15.203151.1@freke.claremont.edu> Date: 16 Feb 91 04:31:51 GMT References: <9102141742.AA00137@autarch.acsu.buffalo.edu> Sender: news@jarthur.Claremont.EDU Organization: Harvey Mudd College Lines: 70 In article <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. > 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? Yes. Take a look at my posting on the point of LaTeX. The user should never have to manually tell LaTeX to switch spacing (after all, think of the hassles of editing a file with numerous single-spaced quotations inside of it which is now going to be used to create a camera-ready (singlespaced) journal article). The document style option doublespace comes close to fixing the problem in allowing the user not to have to worry about line spacing except around quotations. That's not good enough as far as I'm concerned. paper.sty (available from ymir.claremont.edu) was my first attempt at providing an integrated environment that handles double spacing. It works somewhat better than doublespace.sty but has the defects of that option as well (in particular, there is a tendency to put too much space above singlespaced inserts). I've since found a way around that situation, but the solution, again, requires close integration with the document style. The only style(s) that I've included this in are my custom thesis styles. Since I'm no longer writing doublespaced papers myself, the problem of updating paper.sty is less of a concern to me so its unlikely that my double/single spacing solutions will get seen much until I finish my LaTeX style book or I teach another style class for the TeX Users Group. And for those of you who think I've been babbling about LaTeX-specific problems all this time, try and find a simple solution to single-spacing footnotes in a doublespaced TeX document. The simplest solution I have (wrote it many years ago, in fact) is in the file fnote.tex on ymir.claremont.edu in [anonymous.tex.inputs.plain-contrib]. -dh --- Don Hosek To retrieve files from ymir via the | dhosek@ymir.claremont.edu mailserver, send a message to | Quixote TeX Consulting mailserv@ymir.claremont.edu with a | 714-625-0147 line saying send [DIRECTORY]FILENAME where DIRECTORY is the FTP directory (sans "anonymous") and FILENAME is the filename, e.g. "send [tex]00readme.txt". There is a list of files in each directory under the name 00files.txt Binary files are not available by this technique.