[Tex/LaTex] Decrease space between rows with \cline

clinespacingtables

I added \cline to a couple of columns of the table. However, that seems to be adding space to the entire row and it looks weird. How can i decrease it? (i tried using \vspace but it didnt work.

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Here is the code:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{latexsym}
\begin{document}
\begin{table}[htbp]
\catption{\textbf{Table A2:} XYZ }
\begin{scriptsize}
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{p{3cm}p{1.1cm}p{3cm}p{1.1cm}p{3cm}p{1.1cm}}

\hline\\
\textbf{[a] French LO}& \textbf{State}\\
\cline{1-2}

& & Mexico& 0.593& Japan& 0.884 \\
Albania& 0.572& Moldova& 0.377& Korea, Rep.& 0.915 \\
Algeria& 0.599& Morocco& 0.829& Latvia& 0.321 \\
Angola& 0.304& Mozambique& 0.231& Mongolia& 0.520 \\
Argentina& 0.245& Netherlands& 0.749& Poland& 0.593 \\
Armenia& 0.537& Niger& 0.406& Slovak Republic& 0.400 \\
Belgium& 0.741& Panama& 0.258& Slovenia& 0.505 \\
Benin& 0.192& Paraguay& 0.270& Switzerland& 0.810 \\

 \cline{5-6}
 Bolivia& 0.684& Peru& 0.632& 
 \textbf{[d] Scandinavian LO}& 
 \textbf{State}\\
 \cline{5-6}\\

 Brazil& 0.269& Portugal& 0.810& Denmark& 0.771 \\
Burkina Faso& 0.326& Romania& 0.462& Finland& 0.340 \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\end{scriptsize}
\end{table}
\end{document}

Best Answer

This is because you're using \cline{x-y}\\ instead of just \cline{x-y}.

The horizontal line specifications (\hline, \cline or otherwise) are specified at the beginning of every line. Therefore, including an ending \\ in their construction issues another empty line in the tabular.

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