[Tex/LaTex] Setting distance between lines with a defined length (pt,cm,…)

line-spacing

I am currently writing a report for my Master's degree, and I have been instructed that the distance between successive lines should be at least 4mm or 13pt.

In a text-editing package like Microsoft Word, this is typically achieved by directly setting a line spacing parameter to 13pt.

However, LaTeX has different rules and seems to have a more complicated line spacing. At the moment my document set up looks like the following:

\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{article}
\usepackage{fullpage}

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}    
\usepackage[parfill]{parskip}

% Other packages I don't think are relevant

\begin{document}
% Content
\end{document}

I am aware of the setspace package, but it doesn't seem to be intuitive to me how I can directly set a distance between lines?

Best Answer

You can use \usepackage{leading} and set distance between two lines with \leading{13pt} to 13pt. The com­mand re­places the rather more dif­fi­cult LaTeX com­mand \line­spread{<ra­tio>}, where the lead­ing is spec­i­fied by ref­er­ence to the font size. See: leading package

MWE:

\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{article}
\usepackage{fullpage}

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}    
\usepackage[parfill]{parskip}

    \usepackage{leading}
    \leading{13pt}
    \usepackage{blindtext}

\begin{document}
\blinddocument
\end{document}
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