line-spacingspacing
I need to write a entire document with line spacing equals 1.5 cm. I've searched about it and found that there is three kinds of spacing: single, double and 1.5, but I need my document to be EXACTLY 1.5 cm (centimeters!). How do I do that? Is there some relation between "LaTeX spacing" and "centimeters"? I mean, for example,
A 1.5 spacing is approximatedly x cm (What is the value of x?)
Thanks everybody!
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}
apa6 does not a provide a float-specific spacing as a document class option (see section 3.1 Class Options of the apa6 documentation, p 2). However, it loads the etoolbox package by default which provides \AtBeginEnvironment{<env>}{<stuff>} that hooks into and adds <stuff> at \begin{<env>}. So, you can use
\usepackage{setspace}% http://ctan.org/pkg/setspace
\AtBeginEnvironment{tabular}{\singlespacing}% Single spacing in tabular environment
Although it is not necessary to load use the setspace interface for \singlespacing in this case, it is just for convenience. If you're not allowed to use setspace, you could also just use
\makeatletter
\AtBeginEnvironment{tabular}{%
\def\baselinestretch{1}\@currsize}%
\makeatother
Here is a minimal example using the former setspace adjustment:
\documentclass[man,floatsintext]{apa6}% http://ctan.org/pkg/apa6
\shorttitle{Some title}% Dummy title
\usepackage{lipsum}% http://ctan.org/pkg/lipsum
\usepackage{setspace}% http://ctan.org/pkg/setspace
% Already loaded by the apa6 documentclass...
% \usepackage{etoolbox}% http://ctan.org/pkg/etoolbox
\AtBeginEnvironment{tabular}{\singlespacing}% Single spacing in tabular environment
\begin{document}
\lipsum[1]
\begin{table}[ht]
\begin{tabular}{ccccccc}
\toprule
One & Two & Three & Four & Five & Six & Seven \\
\midrule
100 & 200 & 300 & 400 & 500 & 600 & 700 \\
100 & 200 & 300 & 400 & 500 & 600 & 700 \\
100 & 200 & 300 & 400 & 500 & 600 & 700 \\
100 & 200 & 300 & 400 & 500 & 600 & 700 \\
100 & 200 & 300 & 400 & 500 & 600 & 700 \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\caption{This is a table.}
\end{table}
\end{document}
lipsum was merely used to create dummy text Lorem Ipsum style.
Best Answer
If this is LaTeX, try
\setlength{\baselineskip}{1.5cm}anywhere after\begin{document}; if Plain or thereabouts, type\baselineskip=1.5cmdirectly.