I would like to increase the space between two paragraphs only, not for the whole document. For example I want to have something like this
Paragraph1: One paragraph here
Paragraph2: Space between the 1st paragraph and this one, the default option from.
Paragraph3: the 3rd paragraph to have larger/smaller space from the 2nd, than the 2nd has from 1st (for my purpose I want to be larger).
Best Answer
To insert local extra space between paragraphs, LaTeX offers the commands
\smallskip
,\medskip
, and\bigskip
which will add space of\smallskipamount
,\medskipamount
, and\bigskipamount
(see the example for the default value of those when using thearticle
class). Alternatively, you may add custom extra space with\vspace{<extent of space>}
, using either (La)TeX units like pt, ex, etc. or a multiple of, e.g.,\baselineskip
. (Note:\smallskip
& friends internally use\vspace
.)