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From: ftkcheng@violet.uwaterloo.ca (Felix Cheng)
Subject: Re: Double Spacing in LaTeX
Message-ID: <1991Mar22.180325.23725@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
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Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1991 18:03:25 GMT
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In article <N4L7y1w163w@shark.cs.fau.edu>, terryb.bbs@shark.cs.fau.edu (terry bohning) writes:
> I bet this is an old question, but how does one produce double-spaced
> documents with LaTeX?

If you want to change the overall line spacing of your document, specify
the command:
	\renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{2}
to produce double spacing, for example.  Usually a spacing of 1.5 of
single line spacing is more pleasing. This command does not require a
unit identifier.