[Tex/LaTex] Remove vertical space between lines

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I'm new to LaTeX. I completely want to remove the vertical space between two consecutive lines in a paragraph. Let me show you what I mean.

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\renewcommand\baselinestretch{0}
\setlength\parindent{0pt}
\setlength\intextsep{0pt}
\renewcommand\arraystretch{0}

\begin{document}

nnnnn nnnnn nnnnn nnnnn nnnnn nnnnn nnnnn nnnnn nnnnn nnnnn nnnnn nnnnn nnnnn nnnnn nnnnn nnnnn nnnnn nnnnn nnnnn nnnnn nnnnn nnnnn nnnnn nnnnn nnnnn nnnnn  

\begin{table}[h]

\begin{tabular}{ccc}
\hline a&a&a\\
b&b&b\\\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{table}

nnnnn nnnnn nnnnn nnnnn nnnnn nnnnn nnnnn nnnnn nnnnn nnnnn nnnnn nnnnn nnnnn nnnnn nnnnn nnnnn nnnnn nnnnn nnnnn nnnnn nnnnn nnnnn nnnnn nnnnn nnnnn nnnnn 

\end{document}

In this code, even though the baselinestretch is 0, there seems to be a tiny vertical gap between to consecutive lines.

sample

But when the arraystretch for the table is 0, there is no gap between the two rows of the table.

How should I remove this vertical space from two consecutive lines in a paragraph?

Best Answer

You can add

\setlength\lineskip{0pt}

hopefully your real example is some special codes not human readable text!

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[Tex/LaTex] Extreme vertical spacing between lines

While \offinterlineskip\lineskip1pt might seem to give the desired result, lines will be irregularly spaced, because the distance between base lines will depend on the presence of ascenders (letters like "d") or descenders (letters like "y"). Moreover not all descenders and ascenders are equal.

Tight typesetting can be obtained by calling, say, \fontsize{10}{10} for ten point size. One can get cheaply such a setting by modifying the internal function \set@fontsize:

\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{etoolbox,lipsum}
\makeatletter
\patchcmd\set@fontsize{#3}{#2}{}{}
\makeatother

\begin{document}
\lipsum[1]
\large\lipsum[2]
\end{document}

Only etoolbox is required, of course. The patch will substitute the call of the third argument to \set@fontsize with the second; the third parameter is indeed the baselineskip and the second is the font size.

Note that this will affect all text at all sizes.

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If only some paragraphs are to be "tightly typeset", then the environment tight defined as follows will do the job. The \addvspace commands have been used on the assumption that the code is used for examples. Variations on the theme are possible.

\makeatletter
\let\tightset@fontsize\set@fontsize
\patchcmd\tightset@fontsize{#3}{#2}{}{}
\newenvironment{tight}
  {\par\addvspace\topsep
   \let\set@fontsize\tightset@fontsize
   \fontsize{\f@size}{\f@baselineskip}\selectfont}
  {\par\addvspace\topsep}
\makeatother

If tight typesetting is needed for captions, it's simpler. With the caption package define the font used by saying something like

\DeclareCaptionFont{tight}{\fontsize{9}{9}\selectfont}
\captionsetup{font=tight,labelfont=bf}

[Tex/LaTex] Space between lines

Insert \par inside the {\LARGE...} group and remove the line break at the end, since "There's no line here to end." Or, just drop the group formatting entirely, letting the font selection be scoped by the center environment:

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\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}

\begin{center}
{\LARGE\bfseries An \textit{a priori} Typology of Sentential Negation from an HPSG Perspective}
\end{center}

\begin{center}
\LARGE\bfseries An \textit{a priori} Typology of Sentential Negation from an HPSG Perspective
\end{center}

\end{document}

The motivation here is that TeX only sets a paragraph once it's fully read it. So, without a blank line or an indication like \par the paragraph isn't set correctly with the change in \baselineskip.

Please note that the \it, \bf, etc. font macros are deprecated because they do not use the new font selection scheme introduced with LaTeX2e. Please use {\itshape ..}, {\bfseries ..} or \textit{..}, \textbf{..} instead. See Does it matter if I use \textit or \it, \bfseries or \bf, etc. and Will two-letter font style commands (\bf, \it, …) ever be resurrected in LaTeX? for more information.

With your updated post, here are some things to try, using the concepts described above:

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,fleqn,draft]{article}
\usepackage{url}% http://ctan.org/pkg/url
\begin{document}

\begin{center}
  {\LARGE\bf An \textit{a priori} Typology of Sentential Negation from\par an HPSG Perspective\par}

  \bigskip

  {\large Joshua Crowgey\par}
  University of Washington

  \vspace*{3\bigskipamount}

  Proceedings of the HPSG 2012 Conference

  \bigskip

  Department of Linguistics, Chungnam National University Daejeon, South Korea

  \medskip

  Stefan M{\"u}ller (Editor)

  \medskip

  2012

  \medskip

  CSLI Publications

  \medskip

  \url{http://csli-publications.stanford.edu/}
\end{center}

\newpage

\end{document}

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