Text Formatting

alarswilson · Post by **alarswilson** » Fri Apr 03, 2009 4:50 pm

My thesis guidelines call for block-quotes to be single space, but the rest of the text double-spaced. I have been simply using \doublespacing, but this double-spaces the \quote and \verse environments as well. How do I accomplish this simply?

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Post by **localghost** » Fri Apr 03, 2009 4:53 pm

Just use the \singlespacing command from the setspace package inside these environments.

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alarswilson · Post by **alarswilson** » Sat Apr 04, 2009 8:12 am

Is there any way of doing this from the front end, without editing all of my \quote and \verse environments by hand?

Juanjo · Post by **Juanjo** » Sun Apr 05, 2009 3:28 am

Add these lines to the preamble:

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\expandafter\def\expandafter\quote\expandafter{\quote\singlespacing}
\expandafter\def\expandafter\verse\expandafter{\verse\singlespacing}

alarswilson · Post by **alarswilson** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 12:03 am

Thanks. It worked great.

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