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LaTeX Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

By : Stefan Kottwitz
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LaTeX Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

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By: Stefan Kottwitz

Overview of this book

LaTeX is high-quality open source typesetting software that produces professional prints and PDF files. It's a powerful and complex tool with a multitude of features, so getting started can be intimidating. However, once you become comfortable with LaTeX, its capabilities far outweigh any initial challenges, and this book will help you with just that! The LaTeX Beginner's Guide will make getting started with LaTeX easy. If you are writing mathematical, scientific, or business papers, or have a thesis to write, this is the perfect book for you. With the help of fully explained examples, this book offers a practical introduction to LaTeX with plenty of step-by-step examples that will help you achieve professional-level results in no time. You'll learn to typeset documents containing tables, figures, formulas, and common book elements such as bibliographies, glossaries, and indexes, and go on to manage complex documents and use modern PDF features. You'll also get to grips with using macros and styles to maintain a consistent document structure while saving typing work. By the end of this LaTeX book, you'll have learned how to fine-tune text and page layout, create professional-looking tables, include figures, present complex mathematical formulas, manage complex documents, and benefit from modern PDF features.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Changing the line spacing

Without some vertical space between the lines, the readability of our text could suffer. Adding such space would help lead the eye along the line. Though LaTeX already takes care of good readability by choosing meaningful interline spacing, publishers might require different spacing.

We shall modify the very first example of this chapter 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. Compile the code to see the change:

Figure 3.14 – Additional interline spacing

We loaded the setspace package to adjust the line spacing. We provided the option onehalfspacing, which increases the spacing by half of a line height for the whole document.

The setspace package understands three options:

  • singlespacing is the default. No additional space will be inserted. The text will be typeset with LaTeX's default interline...