[Tex/LaTex] Equivalent of one and half line spacing in terms pt

captionsline-spacing

I have the following decleration:

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,oneside,noindent,nocenter,bold]{thesis}

The required format for captions of figures is that there should be a skip equal to 1.5 line. So, I do the following to get the required effect:

\usepackage[skip=18pt]{caption}

What I assume here is that 12pt x 1.5 = 18pt, which I am not sure of its validity. Therefore:

How do we calculate equivalent of 1.5 line spacing in terms pt? If I want to make a line 1.5 of the a selected font manually, how should I calculate it?
Is there any way to assign value to skip dynamically? I mean instead of using skip=18pt (or any constant), can I use something like skip=onehalfspacing with or without using other packages?

Best Answer

If you look at the documented code of setspace, one half spacing corresponds to a factor of 1.241 in 12pt, 1.25 for 10 and 11pt. But as the \skip in the caption package denotes the distance between caption and figure/table, I think they simply mean \skip=1.5\baselineskip. In points that would be approximately 1.5×14=21.75pt, but it's better to use the expression in \baselineskip as it gives some elasticity.

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[Tex/LaTex] Change the baselinestretch (line spacing) only for figure captions

You can use caption package together with setspace package. This is what caption documentation says:

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Further, you can use setspace package to adjust spacing for the whole document by using the commands it provides as noted by egreg.

A MWE will be:

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{graphicx,kantlipsum,setspace}
\usepackage{caption}
\captionsetup[table]{font={stretch=1.2}}     %% change 1.2 as you like
\captionsetup[figure]{font={stretch=1.2}}    %% change 1.2 as you like
 %% or
 %% \captionsetup{font={stretch=1.2}}  %% this affects both figure and table


%\renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{1.5}
\setstretch{1.5}


\begin{document}

\chapter{Some chapter}
\kant[1-3]
\begin{table}[htb]
\centering
\caption{\kant[1]}\label{tab:mytable}
Some table comes here
\end{table}

\kant[4-8]
\begin{figure}[htb]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=4cm]{example-image-a}
\caption{\kant[2]}\label{fig:myfig}
\end{figure}
\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] Double or one-half spacing

How do I double space an entire document? What package should I use?

As commented, one option is to use the package setspace:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{setspace} 
\doublespacing
\begin{document}
One line\par 
Another line
\end{document}

But note that \doublespacing is not equivalent to the double spacing in Word. I explained some alternatives to obtain that in Number of lines in double spacing (compared to Word).

How do I double space just a portion of a document, and not the entire thing?

The easier option to limit the double spacing effect is also the package setspace:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{setspace}
\begin{document}
One line\par 
Another line\par
\begin{doublespace}
One line\par 
Another line
\end{doublespace}
One line\par 
Another line
\end{document}

If you need a Word-like double spacing for some paragraphs use:

\begin{spacing}{2}
.......
\end{spacing}

Another option without packages could be change the \baselineskip inside a minipage:

\begin{minipage}{\textwidth}
    \baselineskip=2\baselineskip
     .....
\end{minipage}

Or simply change the \baselineskip in the main text two times:

\baselineskip=2\baselineskip % start double spacing
.......
\baselineskip=.5\baselineskip % start single  spacing

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[Tex/LaTex] Change the baselinestretch (line spacing) only for figure captions

[Tex/LaTex] Double or one-half spacing

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