[Tex/LaTex] Double line spacing, except in tables

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Extending the question Double line spacing (as I'm new round here I don't seem to be able to comment), I'd like to use double spacing too. Except in tables, where I'd like to be able to leave that at single spacing, or specify a separate line spacing.

But I have a constraint: my LaTeX is being generated from MultiMarkdown via Pandoc, and so I don't get much control over the code. I do get to insert header code before the \begin{document}, so these lines do take effect:

\usepackage{setspace}
\doublespacing

Is there a way of setting tables to be single spaced in the header?

If it matters, I believe the table package used in the generated source is longtable.

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The start of environment longtable can be redefined to add \singlespacing:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{longtable}

\usepackage{setspace}
\doublespacing
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\preto\longtable{\par\singlespacing}

\begin{document}
  \lipsum[2]
  \begin{longtable}{lp{10cm}}
    1&a\tabularnewline
    2&b\tabularnewline
    3&\lipsum[2]
  \end{longtable}
\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] Change line spacing for footnote text only

The setspace package's \doublespacing command and the package option of the same name should not affect footnotes.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[doublespacing]{setspace}

\usepackage{lipsum}

\begin{document}

\lipsum*[1]\footnote{\lipsum*[1]}

\end{document}

[Tex/LaTex] threeparttable notes with 1.5 spacing. Want single spacing

(Aside: I updated/simplified significantly after the OP indicated the method he/she uses to change the default line spacing of the document as well as the packages needed to make the code compilable.)

I have several suggestions:

Since you're using the setspace package and the instruction \onehalfspacing to change the default line spacing for the document as a whole, you could insert the instruction \singlespacing after the start of the ThreePartTable environment to switch locally to single-spacing.
The contents of the longtable environment are made needlessly complicated because of all those \multicolumn{1}{l}{...} and \multicolumn{1}{c}{...} wrappers. As far as I can tell, these wrappers are not needed. (All they do is create code clutter.)
Since you're using the threeparttablex package, you could write \tnote{a} and \item[a] instead of the more-laborious \textsuperscript{a} and \item \textsuperscript{a}, etc.

Here's a simplified version of the example code you gave. I've commented out the instructions that load packages that aren't actually used in the MWE. By the way, there's no point in loading graphics and graphicx individually since the rotating package loads graphicx. Similarly, don't load color if you're also going to load xcolor.

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\documentclass{report}

% packages
%\usepackage{amsmath}        % Extra math definitions
%\usepackage{graphics}       % PostScript figures
\usepackage{setspace}       % 1.5 spacing
\usepackage{longtable,threeparttablex}          % Tables spanning pages
%\usepackage{color}
%\usepackage{graphicx}
%\usepackage{rotating}
%\usepackage{array}
%\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{booktabs}
%\usepackage[table]{xcolor}
%\usepackage{subcaption}
%\usepackage{pdfpages}
%\usepackage[notes,backend=bibtex]{biblatex-chicago}
%\addbibresource{dissbiblio.bib}
%\addbibresource{}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
%\usepackage[full]{textcomp}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{afterpage}
%\usepackage{float}
%\usepackage{fp}
%\usepackage{pdflscape} %To rotate pages with sideways tables or large figures.
%\usepackage{xparse}
%\usepackage{siunitx} %Lets tables align columns by decimal point.
%\usepackage{lmodern}
%\usepackage[french,english]{babel}
%\usepackage{caption}
%\usepackage{pifont}
%\usepackage{microtype}
%\usepackage{amssymb}
%\usepackage{arydshln}
%\usepackage[bottom]{footmisc} %This places footnotes at the bottom so figures will appear above footnotes.
%\usepackage[colorlinks=true,linkcolor=red,citecolor=blue,hyperfigures=true]{hyperref}
%\usepackage{cleveref}

%\newcommand{\tabitem}{~~\llap{\textbullet}~~}
%\DisableLigatures[f]{encoding=T1}
%\crefformat{footnote}{#2\footnotemark[#1]#3}
%
%%Let tables fit to width of page.
%\newcommand\totextwidth[1]{%
%\sbox{\mytabularbox}{#1}%
%\figwidthc=\wd\mytabularbox%
%\textwidthc=\textwidth%
%\FPdiv\scaleratio{\the\textwidthc}{\the\figwidthc}%
%\FPmin\scaleratio{\scaleratio}{1}%
%\scalebox{\scaleratio}{\usebox{\mytabularbox}}%
%}

\begin {document}

\onehalfspacing

\afterpage{%
\begin{ThreePartTable}
\singlespacing  % switch locally to single-spacing
\setlength{\LTleft}{0pt}
\setlength{\LTright}{0pt}
\renewcommand\TPTminimum{\textwidth}
%\renewcommand{\arraystretch}{0.8}  % not necessary, is it?
\begin{TableNotes}[flushleft]
\small
\item[a] \textit{Event Density} (1.5) refers to the number of notes identified in a 1.5~s window starting from the onset of cadential arrival.
 \item[b] \textit{Caesura} refers to the presence of a rest across all four instrumental parts.
 \item[c] \textit{Elision} refers to the superposition of a new intrathematic phrase at the moment of cadential arrival, an accompanimental overlap in the bass, or a melodic lead-in.
 \item[d] \textit{Interthematic Function} refers to one of the following temporal functions to characterize the passage at the theme level following cadential arrival: Before-the-Beginning, Beginning, Middle, End, After-the-End.
     \textit{Intrathematic Function} refers to either the Beginning, Middle, or End functions that characterize the passage at the phrase level following cadential arrival.
\end{TableNotes}
\setlength\tabcolsep{0.1pt}  % default value: 6pt
\begin{longtable}{@{\extracolsep\fill}lccc}  % make longtable span width of text block
\caption{Descriptive statistics for the 11 retrospective features.} \label{tab:ex2rhetorical}\\
\toprule
\textit{Retrospective Features}
& \textit{M} (\textit{SD})
& \textit{Range}
& \textit{Mode} (\textit{Frequency}) \\
\midrule
\textbf{Segmentational Grouping} & & & \\
\quad (1) \textit{Next Note Onset} (s) & .57 (.44) & .1--1.8 & \\
\quad (2) \textit{Next Bass Note Onset (s)} & .97 (.77) & .1--2.8 & \\
\quad (3) \textit{Next Soprano Note Onset} (s) & .99 (.66) & .1--2.6 & \\
\quad (4) \textit{Event Density}\tnote{a} & 9.98 (5.25) & 3--19 & \\
\quad (5) \textit{Caesura}\tnote{b} & & & Absent (28) \\
\quad (6) \textit{Elision}\tnote{c} & & & None (26) \\
\textbf{Temporal Function} & & & \\
\quad (7) \textit{Interthematic Function}\tnote{d} & & & End (20) \\
\quad (8) \textit{Intrathematic Function} & & & Beginning (19) \\
\quad (9) \textit{Repetition} & & & Present (25) \\
\quad (10) \textit{Stimulus Length} (s) & 15.68 (4.14) & 9.2--27.6 & \\
\quad (11) \textit{Stimulus Length from CA} (s) & 7.20 (2.15) & 3.6--14.1 & \\
\bottomrule
\insertTableNotes
\end{longtable}
\end{ThreePartTable}
}
\end{document}

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