How can I make some space between the text and its following figure? (Only once and not for the whole document).
[Tex/LaTex] Space between text and its following figure
floatsspacing
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The space is one of the lengths
\belowdisplayskip=12pt plus 3pt minus 9pt
\belowdisplayshortskip=7pt plus 3pt minus 4pt
so you can set those to whatever values you like using the above primitive syntax of \setlength
so the first tries to be 12pt but will shrink to 9pt or stretch to 21pt to help page breaking.
This depends on the location of the float - if the float is at the top of the page, the gap between the caption and the text is \textfloatsep, while the gap for a float in the middle of the page is given by \intextsep.
From the layouts package documentation it is possible to see the lengths in terms of page/document float elements (p 21 onward):
Default for ieeetran are
\textfloatsep:1.7\baselineskip plus 0.2\baselineskip minus 0.5\baselineskip\intextsep:\baselineskip plus 0.2\baselineskip minus 0.2\baselineskip
and therefore depends on the choice of the default font (since that sets \baselineskip). The default pt-form is therefore
\textfloatsep:20.4pt plus 2.4pt minus 4.8pt\intextsep:12.0pt plus 2.4pt minus 2.4pt
in the 10pt font size. The above includes some stretch/shrink. You can modify them using \setlength. For example,
\setlength{\textfloatsep}{\baselineskip plus 0.2\baselineskip minus 0.2\baselineskip}
would allow for between (roughly) 10pt and 15pt gap between the float and the text. Something like
\setlength{\textfloatsep}{5pt}
would fix the distance to 5pt (without stretch/shrink).
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As of now, that's the best I can think of.
If you include a minimal working example above, we could potentially try to be a tiny bit more precise.