[Tex/LaTex] Reducing the space between the items of List of figures and List of tables

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I need to reduce the space to half between the entries of list of table and list of figures.I want the space to be equal irrespective of the different chapters the entry belongs to. My code in part is as under:

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt,oneside]{report}
\usepackage[left=3.81cm,right=2.54cm,top=2.54cm,bottom=2.54cm]{geometry}

....
addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{References}


..... (I added this patch to remove any extra space between entries from different chapters, and it worked for me but I am unable to reduce the spacing overall)

   \usepackage{etoolbox}% http://ctan.org/pkg/etoolbox
\makeatletter
% \patchcmd{<cmd>}{<search>}{<replace>}{<succes>}{<failure>}
\patchcmd{\@chapter}{\addtocontents{lof}{\protect\addvspace{10\p@}}}{}{}{}% LoF
\patchcmd{\@chapter}{\addtocontents{lot}{\protect\addvspace{10\p@}}}{}{}{}% LoT
\makeatother
%

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When you load tocloft package, the spacing between entries in ToC will be stored in \cftsecafterpnum for sections and \cftsubsecafterpnum for subsections. In LoF, it is stored in \cftfigafterpnum. To set the spacing you can use a code like this

\newlength{\toclineskipl}
\setlength{\toclineskipl}{0.5\baselineskip}

\renewcommand{\cftfigafterpnum}{\vspace{\toclineskipl}} % for figures
\renewcommand{\cftsecafterpnum}{\vspace{\toclineskipl}} % for sections
\renewcommand{\cftsubsecafterpnum}{\vspace{\toclineskipl}} % for subsections

Just set \toclineskipl to whatever length you want which in turn sets the spacing between ToC and LoF entries.

A full sample code

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage[showframe]{geometry}
\geometry{top=15mm,left=15mm}

\usepackage{tocloft}
\newcommand{\toctitlefont}{\LARGE \bfseries}
\renewcommand{\cfttoctitlefont}{\centering \toctitlefont}

% Spacing between lines
\newlength{\toclineskipl}
\setlength{\toclineskipl}{0.5\baselineskip}

\renewcommand{\cftfigafterpnum}{\vspace{\toclineskipl}}
\renewcommand{\cftsecafterpnum}{\vspace{\toclineskipl}}
\renewcommand{\cftsubsecafterpnum}{\vspace{\toclineskipl}}

\usepackage{blindtext}

\begin{document}

\listoffigures
\tableofcontents
\blinddocument



\begin{figure}[h t p]

    \centering

    \includegraphics[trim = 0mm 0mm 0mm 0mm, clip, width=0.48\textwidth]{example-image-a}

    \caption{Caption of Figure 1}

\end{figure}


\begin{figure}[h t p]

    \centering

    \includegraphics[trim = 0mm 0mm 0mm 0mm, clip, width=0.48\textwidth]{example-image-a}

    \caption{Caption of Figure 2} 

\end{figure}

\begin{figure}[h t p]

    \centering

    \includegraphics[trim = 0mm 0mm 0mm 0mm, clip, width=0.48\textwidth]{example-image-a}

    \caption{Caption of Figure 3}

\end{figure}

\begin{figure}[h t p]

    \centering

    \includegraphics[trim = 0mm 0mm 0mm 0mm, clip, width=0.48\textwidth]{example-image-a}

    \caption{Caption of Figure 4}

\end{figure}

\begin{figure}[h t p]

    \centering

    \includegraphics[trim = 0mm 0mm 0mm 0mm, clip, width=0.48\textwidth]{example-image-a}

    \caption{Caption of Figure 5}

\end{figure}

\end{document}

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With the enumitem package, you can add more space between items as follows:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\begin{document}
\begin{itemize}[itemsep=5em]
\item Foo
\item Bar
\end{itemize}
\end{document}

An itemsep of 5em is obviously insanely big, but it shows what can be done.

If you want the change to be global (i.e. apply to all lists) then you could instead add \setitemize{itemsep=5em} to your preamble. But with a sensible itemsep, obviously.

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You can redefine \cftfigafterpnum, \cfttabafterpnum to add the desired amount of space between entries within each chapter; in my example I used 5pt, just for illustration, but use any other desired length:

\documentclass[oneside,12pt]{book}
\usepackage[titles]{tocloft}

\setlength\cftbeforechapskip{100pt}
\renewcommand\cftfigafterpnum{\vskip5pt\par}
\renewcommand\cfttabafterpnum{\vskip5pt\par}

\begin{document}

\listoftables
\listoffigures
\tableofcontents

\chapter{a}
\section{1}
\begin{table}[h] \caption{Performance at peak F-measure1} \end{table}
\begin{table}[h] \caption{Performance at peak F-measure2} \end{table}
\begin{table}[h] \caption{Performance at peak F-measure3} \end{table}
\begin{figure} \caption{Performance at peak G-measure1} \end{figure}
\begin{figure} \caption{Performance at peak G-measure2} \end{figure}
\begin{figure} \caption{Performance at peak G-measure3} \end{figure}

\chapter{b}
\section{1}
\begin{table}[h] \caption{Performance at peak F-measure4} \end{table}
\begin{table}[h] \caption{Performance at peak F-measure5} \end{table}
\begin{table}[h] \caption{Performance at peak F-measure6} \end{table}
\begin{figure} \caption{Performance at peak G-measure4} \end{figure}
\begin{figure} \caption{Performance at peak G-measure5} \end{figure}
\begin{figure} \caption{Performance at peak G-measure6} \end{figure}

\end{document}

An image of the LoT:

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An image of the LoF:

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By the way, using just [h] as the float placement specification could be too restrictive.

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