General ⇒ Spacing of the List of Figures

[DannyBoy]

I'm using the setspace package to control the spacing in my document. For the List of Figures I have to have double spacing between the entries, but if an entry is longer than one line it should be single spaced. (A ridiculous formatting stipulation if you ask me, but anyway...) By placing \singlespacing or \doublespacing prior to \listoffigures I can control the spacing of all the entries, but can't control the spacing within an individual entry. I've tried using \doublespacing\listoffigures and then in the captions using \singlespacing, but I get an error. Does anyone know how I can achieve the desired result?

[gmedina]

One possibility is to use the tocloft package to control the vertical spacing between entries in the LoF, as the following example suggests:

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\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage{calc}
\usepackage{tocloft}

\begin{document}
\setlength{\cftparskip}{2\baselineskip}
\listoffigures
\newpage

\doublespacing
\begin{figure}
  \centering
  \fbox{Test Figure}
  \caption{\blindtext}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}
  \centering
  \fbox{Test figure}
  \caption{A short caption}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}
  \centering
  \fbox{Test Figure}
  \caption{\blindtext}
\end{figure}

\Blindtext
\end{document}

The blindtext package was loaded only to automatically generate some text.

[DannyBoy]

Thanks for the reply! I'll give that a go...