double spacing in LaTeX

[David Kastrup]

pru...@pitt.edu (Alexander R Pruss) writes:

> What is the best way to get nicely formatted double-spaced documents in
> LaTeX?

Reading the FAQ. Short of that, using setspace.sty.

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[Alexander R Pruss]

What is the best way to get nicely formatted double-spaced documents in

LaTeX? I normally use AMS-LaTeX's AMSART style, and while I *can* just put a
\baselineskip=2\baselineskip
command at the top of my file, the output lacks aesthetic value. For instance,
{quote} environments get double spaced, which looks ugly (and is unnecessary
for most purposes). I can modify the AMSART.CLS file to use
single-spacing for {quote} environments, but it is not so easy to do this in
a robust way that produces the right spacing before and after the displayed
quotations. And there are a few other aesthetic problems (headers not
spaced the right distance apart from the double-spaced body text, etc.)
So my question is: Does anyone have a set of macros that produces nicely
formatted double-spaced text in LaTeX? Ideally in AMS-LaTeX's AMSART style,
but if I can't get it in AMS-LaTeX, I can live with ordinary LaTeX.

Now, of course, somebody might ask me why I care about aesthetic value when
double-spacing already destroys most of it. This is a valid criticism, but
alas in philosophy it appears that double-spaced typescript is standard,
ugly as it may look.

Alex.

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[Timothy Murphy]

pru...@pitt.edu (Alexander R Pruss) writes:

>What is the best way to get nicely formatted double-spaced documents in
>LaTeX? I normally use AMS-LaTeX's AMSART style, and while I *can* just put a
> \baselineskip=2\baselineskip
>command at the top of my file, the output lacks aesthetic value.

People generally suggest that you \usepackage{setspace} .

I'm not sure what you mean by AMS-LaTeX,
but setspace.sty seems to be compatible with amsmath.sty .

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[Mariella M Cabizza]

I use the package setspace with miktex that can be found in CTAN (the
file to be download is setspace.sty).

To have doublespacing set in the preambule \doublespace and it can be
changed in the document, for exemple to have single spacing by:

\begin{singlespace}
\end{singlespace}

If your version of latex is older you may need the package setoldsp.

Mariella

On 2Apr 1997, Alexander R Pruss wrote:

> Date: 2 Apr 1997 03:59:47 GMT
> From: Alexander R Pruss <pru...@pitt.edu>
> Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
> Subject: double spacing in LaTeX

>
> What is the best way to get nicely formatted double-spaced documents in
> LaTeX? I normally use AMS-LaTeX's AMSART style, and while I *can* just put a
> \baselineskip=2\baselineskip