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I have a feeling that this involves some combination of \renewcommand but I think it is best to have the advice on this forum. When I use Garamond fonts, everything becomes immediately lighter, in particular the \begin{description} … \end{description} parts.

With Garamond:
\documentclass[10pt ...

Thanks for the reply localghost! "\addlinespace" is very useful.

Ah, those "&"s are left over from a different table formatting. Thanks for pointing them out.

And the "[3ex]" works quite well. Thank you.

Sorry!

\documentclass[a4paper]{article}

\usepackage{amsmath,amssymb}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage{bm}
\usepackage{booktabs}

\renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.1}
\def\mathbi#1{\textbf{\em #1}}
\newcommand{\transp}{^{\mathsf{T}}}

\begin{document}

\begin{table}[htbp]
\begin{center}
\begin ...

I have been trying to rescale the height of cells in a table:

\begin{table}[htbp]
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{>{$\displaystyle}p{.2\textwidth}<{$} >{$\displaystyle}p{.3\textwidth}<{$}}
%================================%
\toprule
\textbf{Derivative} & \textbf{Expression} \\
\toprule
\dfrac ...

Thanks for that Thorsten. My understanding of macros is poor - I thought the "#1" in the second input of \handout would get dereferenced using the first input to the \handout command. Now that seems a little silly.

I am trying to create a template for problem sets using another template I found online, a minimal example of which is below. When I try to compile this, I get the error:
You can't use `macro parameter character #' in horizontal mode

There are other instances of this error report on google but ...