Time for action – increasing line spacing

Though LaTeX already takes care of good readability by choosing a meaningful interline spacing, publishers might require different spacing. We shall modify our example by adding half of a line height to the line spacing.

1. Extend the preamble of our example with this command:

   \usepackage[onehalfspacing]{setspace}

2. Typeset to see the change:

   

What just happened?

We loaded the setspace package. Its only purpose is to adjust the line spacing. We provided the option onehalfspacing . This increases the spacing by half of a line height for the whole document.

setspace understands three options:

• singlespacing is the default. No additional space will be inserted. The text will be typeset with LaTeX's default interline spacing, which is about 20 percent of the line height.

• onehalfspacing means one-and-a-half spacing like in our example.

• doublespacing can be used for even more spacing: the distance between the baselines of successive text lines would be twice as high as...