Questions tagged [spacing]
{spacing} is about both horizontal and vertical white space, e.g. space between letters or words, or space between paragraphs. For adjusting the space between the lines of a document, use {line-spacing} or -- if your question is specifically about the package of the same name -- {setspace}.
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parskip after opening in scrlttr2
Using the parskip=half option, scrlttr2 still sets a full parskip after the opening. I feel that this is not intended and also not appealing.
Is there a way to only get a half skip?
I did not find ...
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How to draw a figure (horizontal and diagonal ines) with numbers / variables within (easy)
I am looking to draw diagrams similar to this many times over the course of a document, and fill in all (6) of the negative spaces (top, bottom, top left, top right, bottom left, bottom right). The ...
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Too much space after prime
When I write M'(t) or H''(t) to denote derivatives, I get an unpleasantly large space
between the "prime" symbol and the parenthesis. I'm wondering if I perhaps have a corrupted font. Or do ...
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Relative placement of horizontal rule
I want to format a document in latex with horizontal lines under each section heading that start at the beginning of the text and extend to the right margin. I have figured out how to manually space ...
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Where does this 1pt extra space between paragraphs come from, and how to configure it?
In the MWE
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lua-visual-debug}
\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}
\setlength{\parskip}{0pt}
\begin{document}
\rule{6mm}{6mm}
\rule{7mm}{6mm}
\end{document}
the code ...
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Horizontal spacing smaller than \, (math mode) [duplicate]
I like to use something like \,mathrm d t for the differential in an integral. That is, upright d for the differential symbl, with a bit of spacing before it, and then the variable t:
However, the ...
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dotfill and justification [closed]
I have something like
\parbox[b]{0.924\textwidth}{
SPACE\dotfill\quad\\bar\quad\SPACE
}
I want the space on the left to be a fixed amount of physical space so that the beginning of the dotfill lines ...
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Spacing with xlop
When using onehalfspacing from the setspace package, the spacing also applies to the display of calculations from the xlop package. Is it possible to change that so that these calculations are ...
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Long division with xlop and spacing
Here is a code to produce a display for long division using the xlop package. This looks nice, but when using this code together with \onehalfspacing (from the setspace package) or while specifying a ...
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How to format \ea and \ex examples to have spacing like a table (corresponding columns)
I would like to have examples in a linguistic text that are able to be referenced to with \ref{ex:key:22a} for example, but have spacing like a table. Is there any way to indent the text or to create ...
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Emulating the `\shortintertext` command in text mode
I am trying to reduce the spacing between an align and gather environment using the \shortintextext command.
I am aware of one solution that nests the align block inside the gather environment to ...
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Exam Class (Hirschhorn) has different Itemize Spacings for the solution and the solutionbox Environments
I am working with the "exam" class by Philip Hirschhorn (version 2.704) and I am experiencing some trouble with the spacing of lists, itemize in my case, in solution environments.
I see ...
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The spacing between the title and the enumerate, and the spacing for each item
I used setspace package here to space the items in enumerate, but this causes two problems for me.
The spacing between the title and the enumerate also widens,
The spacing for each item also widens. ...
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Can I customize margins and spacing for bibliography?
Can I customize line spacing and margins for bibliography?, in particular make margins wider and spacing smaller.
Like is there a command like {\linespacingsinglenospace\widemargins\bibliography{...
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Horizontal space between absolute value symbols
Possibly related questions include Absolute values and height scaling on some symbols and Absolute Value Symbols but they do not seem to address my specific question.
The code
\documentclass[]{amsart}
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