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asmodeos
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Linespread in pt ?

Post by asmodeos »

Hello everybody,

I apologize in advance for my poor english, I'm not a native speaker.

I would like to set the linespread of my tex document in pt (10pt actually). I tried it with :

- \linespread command. It didn't work
- setspace package & setstretch, it didn't work

In fact I have to set the linespread as it is for 1.5 in Word (10pt) but the \onehalfspacing and \linespread{1.3} are very smaller. The linespread{1.5} is too close from doublespacing.

Any idea ? Thanx in advance !

Alain

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frabjous
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Re: Linespread in pt ?

Post by frabjous »

Is

\setlength{\baselineskip}{10pt}

what you're after?

(Though IIRC points in TeX differ from points in Word.)
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localghost
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Linespread in pt ?

Post by localghost »

The predefined settings of the setspace package and the capabilty of its \setstretch command are more appropriate then those of Word. For reproducing Word documents you may take a look at the wordlike package.


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asmodeos
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Re: Linespread in pt ?

Post by asmodeos »

thanx for all you advices. I'll check the wordlike package. I hate using Word but many of my professors at College give orders which are related to Word (such as 1.5 linespread) for papers redaction. They don't know TeX...
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