Text Formatting ⇒ Change interline Spacing only of the Text

[mauro269]

Hi guys,

I've just completed my academic thesis and I'm working on the text formatting. I've a problem with the interline spacing. When I use \linespread{1.5}\selectfont it sets the interline on all the text included the tables (I've a lot of tables filled with a multitude of numbers). How can I set the interline on all the text excluding the tables?

Thanks for your help

[localghost]

No problem with setspace.

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\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[tableposition=top]{caption}
\usepackage[onehalfspacing]{setspace}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\begin{document}
  \lipsum[1]

  \begin{table}[!ht]
    \caption{Table with normal interline spacing}
    \label{tab:normal-spacing}
    \centering
    \begin{tabular}{cc}\hline
      Table Header & Table Header \\ \hline
      Some Content & Some Content \\
      Some Content & Some Content \\
      Some Content & Some Content \\ \hline
    \end{tabular}
  \end{table}

  \lipsum[2]
\end{document}

Further reading:

• »An essential guide to LaTeX2ε usage«

Remarks:

• The \selectfont is quite superfluous with your method. It does exactly nothing.

Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[mauro269]

Hi, thanks for your reply and for your welcome

I've tried what you suggested but the

\usepackage[onehalfspacing]{setspace}

set 1.5 spacing also on tables. These are my packages

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\documentclass[12pt, a4paper, oneside, titlepage, openright]{book}
\usepackage[applemac]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english,italian]{babel}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[onehalfspacing]{setspace}
\usepackage{amsmath,amssymb,mathrsfs}
\usepackage{mathtools}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{sectsty}
\sectionfont{\large}
\usepackage[center]{caption}

[localghost]

[…] I've tried what you suggested but the

\usepackage[onehalfspacing]{setspace}

set 1.5 spacing also on tables. […]

Not in my code sample. Click on "Open in writeLaTeX" in the head of the code block in my last reply to see the result. So you have to show the opposite by a self-contained and minimal example.

[mauro269]

I really don't know what's the matter...To give out more details, I'm using MacTeX.
This is the code of one of my tables:

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[localghost]

I asked for a self-contained and minimal example, not for a loosely code snippet. Hence an adequate problem description is still missing.

[mauro269]

Sorry, below there's a simplified version of my code:

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\documentclass[12pt, a4paper, oneside, titlepage, openright]{book}
\usepackage[applemac]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english,italian]{babel}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[onehalfspacing]{setspace}
\usepackage{amsmath,amssymb,mathrsfs}
\usepackage{mathtools}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{sectsty}
\sectionfont{\large}
\usepackage[center]{caption}
\begin{document}
      \lipsum[1]

\begin{table}[H]
\centering
\begin{tabular}{l c c c}
\specialrule{2pt}{0pt}{0pt}
		 & \textbf{N.1} & \textbf{N.2} \\ [0.5ex]
\hline % inserts single horizontal line
1 & 2 & 3 \\
1 & 2 & 3 \\
1 & 2 & 3 \\
1 & 2 & 3 \\ [1ex]
\specialrule{2pt}{0pt}{0pt}
\end{tabular}
\caption{{\footnotesize Numbers.}}
\label{table:numbers}
\end{table}
   
   \lipsum[2]
\end{document}

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Load the setspace package with options after the float package to fix it, not before.
Thanks for completing the example.

Stefan

[mauro269]

Load the setspace package with options after the float package to fix it, not before.
Thanks for completing the example.

Stefan

Oh Thanks! That's the solution!
Thanks again to both of you