[Tex/LaTex] How to reduce the blank space between paragraphs

line-spacing

Whenever I need to start a new paragraph I do the following

\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{report}
\usepackage{amsmath,amsfonts,amssymb,amsthm,blindtext,epsfig,epstopdf,titling,url,array,xspace}
\usepackage[nopar]{lipsum}
\usepackage{thmtools}
\usepackage[a4paper,bindingoffset=0.2in,left=1in,right=1in,top=1in,bottom=1in,footskip=.25in]{geometry}

\theoremstyle{plain}
\newtheorem{theorem}{Theorem}[section]

\begin{document}

\noindent
abcdefg\\
\\
abcdefg

\begin{theorem}
abcdefg
\end{theorem}

\end{document}

which generates the spacing indicated in red, which seems too broad in comparison to the spacing resulted from using \theoremstyle{plain} from thmtools package (indicated in blue). So I was wondering how do I reduce the spacing that are indicated in red to blue.

Best Answer

\noindent
abcdefg\\
\\
abcdefg

is a single three line paragraph, with the middle line having the maximum badness and generating

Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph at lines 12--16

If you remove the spurious markup and have two paragraphs before the theorem (which is I think the intent) then

abcdefg

abcdefg

\begin{theorem}
abcdefg
\end{theorem}

produces

as the latex default is for paragraphs starting with an indent and no vertical space.

You could add the parskip package if you want no indentation and vertical space

after

\usepackage{parskip}

you get

which is closer to your requirements, you then may want to adjust the spacing above theorems using thmtools

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Add code to quotation based on the fact that after a section the switch \if@nobreak is true:

\usepackage{etoolbox}
\makeatletter
\AtBeginEnvironment{quotation}{\if@nobreak\vspace*{-\topskip}\fi\singlespacing}
\makeatother

Now you don't have to issue \doublespacing after quotation, because the environment will keep the single spacing confined into it.

It seems to work right even when the section falls near the bottom of a page.

Using lockstep suggestion you can also say

\usepackage{etoolbox}
\BeforeBeginEnvironment{quotation}{\par\begin{singlespace*}}
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[Tex/LaTex] Blank space between paragraphs

You want to give structure to your document. Here's an example.

\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage{amsthm}
\newtheorem{thm}{Theorem}[section]

\begin{document}

\section{Semisimple modules}

A module is said to be \emph{semisimple} if it equals the sum
of its simple submodules. Note that the zero module is semisimple,
being the sum of the (empty) family of its simple submodules.

A ring is called \emph{semisimple} if it is semisimple as a right
module over itself. We shall see later that right semisimple is
the same as left semisimple, so we can omit the indication of the
side.

\begin{thm}
A module is semisimple if and only if it is a direct sum of
simple submodules.
\end{thm}

\begin{proof}
It's obvious, isn't it?
\end{proof}

\end{document}

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As you see, the space above and below the statement is automatically added.

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