[Tex/LaTex] How to set different line spacing in tabular and main body

line-spacingsetspacetables

I want the main body to have 1.5 line spacing, while tabular environments should have the default (i.e. smaller) line spacing. However, the code below gives 1.5 line spacing to the whole document, including tables:

\documentclass[12pt, a4paper] {report}
\parindent = 0cm \parskip = 0cm
\renewcommand\baselinestretch{1.5}

\begin{document}
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Fusce accumsan congue leo, at 
convallis diam pulvinar nec. In venenatis neque mi, pellentesque dictum turpis ultrices 
quis. \bigskip

\centering
\begin{tabular} { p{2cm} p{6cm} }
    Hello World & Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Fusce 
    accumsan congue leo, at convallis diam pulvinar nec. \\ \hline
    Goodbye World & Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. \\
\end{tabular}
\end{document}

The answer at tex.stackexchange.com/a/79155 didn't work for me. In particular, I have tried replacing

\renewcommand\baselinestretch{1.5} with \usepackage{setspace} \setstretch{1.5}
\centering with \begin{center}

Note: \renewcommand\arraystretch{0.8} doesn't help because I'm concerned with the spacing between lines of text in a table, not between rows of a table.

Best Answer

A solution with setspace. I had to replace \hline with \midrulefrom booktabs to have some padding around the horizontal rule:

\documentclass[12pt, a4paper] {report}
\parindent = 0cm \parskip = 0cm
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{setspace}
\renewcommand\baselinestretch{1.5}

\begin{document}
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Fusce accumsan congue leo, at
convallis diam pulvinar nec. In venenatis neque mi, pellentesque dictum turpis ultrices
quis. \bigskip

\begin{spacing}{0.8}\centering
\begin{tabular} { p{2cm} p{6cm} }
    Hello World & Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Fusce
    accumsan congue leo, at convallis diam pulvinar nec. \\
    \midrule
    Goodbye World & Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. \\
\end{tabular}
\end{spacing}

\end{document}

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The setspace package does it for you, but it turns doublespacing off within footnotes and floats like figure and table captions. That's usually desired.

But if you don't want to use setspace, perhaps because of the mentioned reason, you could use the command \linespread, for instance:

\linespread{1.5}

A package may be preferred over such a command though.

[Tex/LaTex] How to set default line spacing in a .cls file

The error in your comment says, that \@currsize is undefined. It is set by \@setfontsize, which is called by LaTeX font size commands such as \Large, \small etc.

So you could fix it by defining \@currsize yourself, such as by

\let\@currsize\normalsize

but I recommend to define a font size in your class before you load setspace, which fixes it. Here's an example from bk10.clo, loaded by the book class:

\renewcommand\normalsize{%
   \@setfontsize\normalsize\@xpt\@xiipt
   \abovedisplayskip 10\p@ \@plus2\p@ \@minus5\p@
   \abovedisplayshortskip \z@ \@plus3\p@
   \belowdisplayshortskip 6\p@ \@plus3\p@ \@minus3\p@
   \belowdisplayskip \abovedisplayskip
   \let\@listi\@listI}
\normalsize

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