[Tex/LaTex] Reduce line spacing in user defined environment

line-spacing

Having lots of figures and tables in my document, I have created two commands \source and \notes to format the source of the figure/table and add any notes (see MWE). The body text has double line spacing, how can I reduce the line spacing to one-half or single line spacing in my newly defined \notes environment?

\documentclass[a4paper, 12pt]{report}

\usepackage[english,frenchb]{babel}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{adjustbox}
\usepackage{subcaption}

\linespread{1.6} %Setting double spacing for document

%---- Create 'source' and 'notes' commands ----%
\newcommand{\source}[1]{\vspace{-1.5em}
\captionsetup{justification=justified} \caption*{\raggedright\textnormal{\footnotesize{\textit{#1}}}}}

\newcommand{\notes}[1]{\vspace{-0.5em} 
% Would like 1.5 spacing for 'notes' environment
\captionsetup{justification=justified} \caption*{\textnormal{\scriptsize{\textit{#1}}}}}

\linespread{1.6}

\begin{document}

\begin{figure}[h!]
\begin{center}
\caption{A figure}
\resizebox{!}{70mm}{\includegraphics{{example-image-a}}}
\end{center}
      \source{Source : source of figure.}
      \notes{Notes : Some very long notes spread over several lines of which I would like to reduce linespacing. Some very long notes spread over several lines of which I would like to reduce linespacing. Some very long notes spread over several lines of which I would like to reduce linespacing. Some very long notes spread over several lines of which I would like to reduce linespacing.}
\end{figure}

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\end{document}

Best Answer

Just add \linespread{0.0} (for single-spacing, or any other number as you like) to your definition of the \notes macro.

\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{subcaption}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\linespread{1.6}

\newcommand{\source}[1]{%
    \vspace{-1.5em}%
    \captionsetup{justification=justified}%
    \caption*{\raggedright\footnotesize\textit{#1}}%
}

\newcommand{\notes}[1]{%
    \linespread{0.0}\vspace{-0.5em}%
    \captionsetup{justification=justified}%
    \caption*{\scriptsize\textit{#1}}%
}

\begin{document}

\begin{figure}[h!]
    \begin{center}
        \caption{A figure}
        \includegraphics[height=70mm]{example-image-a}
    \end{center}
    \source{Source : source of figure.}
    \notes{Notes : \lipsum[1]}
\end{figure}

\lipsum[2]

\end{document}

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ivanKOMAChapterTitle

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ivanKomaChaptertitleMod

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\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
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\KOMAoption{chapterprefix}{true}
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\RedeclareSectionCommand[beforeskip=0pt]{chapter}
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