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From: bjr@clarity.Princeton.EDU (Brian J. Reiser)
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Subject: Doublespace.sty bugs: any workarounds?
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Date: 28 Apr 91 02:29:16 GMT
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Several students here are trying to use the doublespace.sty file
available from the archives on sun.soe.clarkson.edu.  This produces
output that looks approximlatey ``doublespaced,'' which is required
for a variety of strange purposes such as bound dissertations, journal
submissions, etc.  The enviroment provides a singlespace environment
which is very useful to singlespace things like quotations and
references.  Unfortunately among the several known bugs described in
this file is one that is particulary problematic:
"\begin{singlespace}\begin{quote} produces the wrong spacing before
the quote (extra glue is inserted)."  we need to use singlespaced
quotes for lots of purposes, but the extra whitespace above it is very
ugly.  Since this is a frequently used feature, can anyone suggest a
workaround?

Alternatively, is there a better package to get approximately
doublespaced output, which is smart enough to not doublespace tables,
quotes, etc.?

Thanks,
Brian Reiser
Princeton University
Cognitive Science Laboratory