[Tex/LaTex] threeparttable notes with 1.5 spacing. Want single spacing

footnotesline-spacinglongtablethreeparttable

My main text uses one-one-half line spacing, and now the notes below the table are also one-one-half line spaced. I'd prefer them to feature single spacing (all of my other tables don't share this problem). If I were to simply use the tabular environment within a threeparttable, I'd get the desired look for my footnotes, but I can't seem to reproduce the single line spacing for this table. How do I fix the code for this table so that I can stretch the table across the width of the text on the page, but have my footnotes appear below the table with single spacing? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

\documentclass{report}

% packages
\usepackage{amsmath}        % Extra math definitions
\usepackage{graphics}       % PostScript figures
\usepackage{setspace}       % 1.5 spacing
\usepackage{longtable,threeparttablex}          % Tables spanning pages
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{rotating}
\usepackage[colorlinks=true,linkcolor=red,citecolor=blue,hyperfigures=true]{hyperref}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage[table]{xcolor}
\usepackage{subcaption}
\usepackage{pdfpages}
\usepackage[notes,backend=bibtex]{biblatex-chicago}
\addbibresource{dissbiblio.bib}
\addbibresource{}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[full]{textcomp}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{afterpage}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{fp}
\usepackage{pdflscape} %To rotate pages with sideways tables or large figures.
\usepackage{xparse}
\usepackage{siunitx} %Lets tables align columns by decimal point.
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage[french,english]{babel}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{pifont}
\usepackage{microtype}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{arydshln}
\usepackage{cleveref} 
\usepackage[bottom]{footmisc} %This places footnotes at the bottom so figures will appear above footnotes.

\newcommand{\tabitem}{~~\llap{\textbullet}~~}
\DisableLigatures[f]{encoding=T1}
\crefformat{footnote}{#2\footnotemark[#1]#3}

%Let tables fit to width of page.
\newcommand\totextwidth[1]{%
\sbox{\mytabularbox}{#1}%
\figwidthc=\wd\mytabularbox%
\textwidthc=\textwidth%
\FPdiv\scaleratio{\the\textwidthc}{\the\figwidthc}%
\FPmin\scaleratio{\scaleratio}{1}%
\scalebox{\scaleratio}{\usebox{\mytabularbox}}%
}

\begin {document}

\onehalfspacing

\afterpage{
\begin{ThreePartTable}
\setlength{\LTleft}{0pt}
\setlength{\LTright}{0pt}
\renewcommand\TPTminimum{\textwidth}
\renewcommand{\arraystretch}{0.8}
\begin{TableNotes}[flushleft]
\small
\item \textsuperscript{a} \textit{Event Density} (1.5) refers to the number of notes identified in a 1.5 s window starting from the onset of cadential arrival.
 \item \textsuperscript{b} \textit{Caesura} refers to the presence of a rest across all four instrumental parts.
 \item \textsuperscript{c} \textit{Elision} refers to the superposition of a new intrathematic phrase at the moment of cadential arrival, an accompanimental overlap in the bass, or a melodic lead-in.
 \item \textsuperscript{d} \textit{Interthematic Function} refers to one of the following temporal functions to characterize the passage at the theme level following cadential arrival: Before-the-Beginning, Beginning, Middle, End, After-the-End. \textit{Intrathematic Function} refers to either the Beginning, Middle, or End functions that characterize the passage at the phrase level following cadential arrival.
\end{TableNotes}
\begin{longtable}{@{\hskip\tabcolsep\extracolsep\fill}lccc}
\caption{Descriptive statistics for the 11 retrospective features.} \\
\toprule
\textit{Retrospective Features} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{\textit{M} (\textit{SD})} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{\textit{Range}} &
\multicolumn{1}{c}{\textit{Mode} (\textit{Frequency})} \\
\midrule
\textbf{Segmentational Grouping} &       &       & \textbf{} \\
\multicolumn{1}{l}{\quad (1)   \textit{Next Note Onset} (s)} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{.57 (.44)} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{.1-1.8} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{} \\
\multicolumn{1}{l}{\quad (2)   \textit{Next Bass Note Onset} (s)} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{.97 (.77)} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{.1-2.8} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{} \\
\multicolumn{1}{l}{\quad (3)   \textit{Next Soprano Note Onset} (s)} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{.99 (.66)} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{.1-2.6} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{} \\
\multicolumn{1}{l}{\quad (4)   \textit{Event Density}\textsuperscript{a}} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{9.98 (5.25)} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{3-19} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{} \\
\multicolumn{1}{l}{\quad (5)   \textit{Caesura}\textsuperscript{b}} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{Absent (28)} \\
\multicolumn{1}{l}{\quad (6)   \textit{Elision}\textsuperscript{c}} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{None (26)} \\
\textbf{Temporal Function} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{\textbf{}} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{\textbf{}} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{\textbf{}} \\
\multicolumn{1}{l}{\quad (7)   \textit{Interthematic Function}\textsuperscript{d}} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{End (20)} \\
\multicolumn{1}{l}{\quad (8)   \textit{Intrathematic Function}} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{Beginning (19)} \\
\multicolumn{1}{l}{\quad (9)  \textit{ Repetition}} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{Present (25)} \\
\multicolumn{1}{l}{\quad (10)   \textit{Stimulus Length} (s)} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{15.68 (4.14)} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{9.2-27.6} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{} \\
\multicolumn{1}{l}{\quad (11)   \textit{Stimulus Length from CA} (s)} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{7.20 (2.15)} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{3.6-14.1} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{} \\
\bottomrule
\insertTableNotes
\end{longtable}
\label{tab:ex2rhetorical}%
\end{ThreePartTable}
}

\end{document}

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(Aside: I updated/simplified significantly after the OP indicated the method he/she uses to change the default line spacing of the document as well as the packages needed to make the code compilable.)

I have several suggestions:

Since you're using the setspace package and the instruction \onehalfspacing to change the default line spacing for the document as a whole, you could insert the instruction \singlespacing after the start of the ThreePartTable environment to switch locally to single-spacing.
The contents of the longtable environment are made needlessly complicated because of all those \multicolumn{1}{l}{...} and \multicolumn{1}{c}{...} wrappers. As far as I can tell, these wrappers are not needed. (All they do is create code clutter.)
Since you're using the threeparttablex package, you could write \tnote{a} and \item[a] instead of the more-laborious \textsuperscript{a} and \item \textsuperscript{a}, etc.

Here's a simplified version of the example code you gave. I've commented out the instructions that load packages that aren't actually used in the MWE. By the way, there's no point in loading graphics and graphicx individually since the rotating package loads graphicx. Similarly, don't load color if you're also going to load xcolor.

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\documentclass{report}

% packages
%\usepackage{amsmath}        % Extra math definitions
%\usepackage{graphics}       % PostScript figures
\usepackage{setspace}       % 1.5 spacing
\usepackage{longtable,threeparttablex}          % Tables spanning pages
%\usepackage{color}
%\usepackage{graphicx}
%\usepackage{rotating}
%\usepackage{array}
%\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{booktabs}
%\usepackage[table]{xcolor}
%\usepackage{subcaption}
%\usepackage{pdfpages}
%\usepackage[notes,backend=bibtex]{biblatex-chicago}
%\addbibresource{dissbiblio.bib}
%\addbibresource{}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
%\usepackage[full]{textcomp}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{afterpage}
%\usepackage{float}
%\usepackage{fp}
%\usepackage{pdflscape} %To rotate pages with sideways tables or large figures.
%\usepackage{xparse}
%\usepackage{siunitx} %Lets tables align columns by decimal point.
%\usepackage{lmodern}
%\usepackage[french,english]{babel}
%\usepackage{caption}
%\usepackage{pifont}
%\usepackage{microtype}
%\usepackage{amssymb}
%\usepackage{arydshln}
%\usepackage[bottom]{footmisc} %This places footnotes at the bottom so figures will appear above footnotes.
%\usepackage[colorlinks=true,linkcolor=red,citecolor=blue,hyperfigures=true]{hyperref}
%\usepackage{cleveref}

%\newcommand{\tabitem}{~~\llap{\textbullet}~~}
%\DisableLigatures[f]{encoding=T1}
%\crefformat{footnote}{#2\footnotemark[#1]#3}
%
%%Let tables fit to width of page.
%\newcommand\totextwidth[1]{%
%\sbox{\mytabularbox}{#1}%
%\figwidthc=\wd\mytabularbox%
%\textwidthc=\textwidth%
%\FPdiv\scaleratio{\the\textwidthc}{\the\figwidthc}%
%\FPmin\scaleratio{\scaleratio}{1}%
%\scalebox{\scaleratio}{\usebox{\mytabularbox}}%
%}

\begin {document}

\onehalfspacing

\afterpage{%
\begin{ThreePartTable}
\singlespacing  % switch locally to single-spacing
\setlength{\LTleft}{0pt}
\setlength{\LTright}{0pt}
\renewcommand\TPTminimum{\textwidth}
%\renewcommand{\arraystretch}{0.8}  % not necessary, is it?
\begin{TableNotes}[flushleft]
\small
\item[a] \textit{Event Density} (1.5) refers to the number of notes identified in a 1.5~s window starting from the onset of cadential arrival.
 \item[b] \textit{Caesura} refers to the presence of a rest across all four instrumental parts.
 \item[c] \textit{Elision} refers to the superposition of a new intrathematic phrase at the moment of cadential arrival, an accompanimental overlap in the bass, or a melodic lead-in.
 \item[d] \textit{Interthematic Function} refers to one of the following temporal functions to characterize the passage at the theme level following cadential arrival: Before-the-Beginning, Beginning, Middle, End, After-the-End.
     \textit{Intrathematic Function} refers to either the Beginning, Middle, or End functions that characterize the passage at the phrase level following cadential arrival.
\end{TableNotes}
\setlength\tabcolsep{0.1pt}  % default value: 6pt
\begin{longtable}{@{\extracolsep\fill}lccc}  % make longtable span width of text block
\caption{Descriptive statistics for the 11 retrospective features.} \label{tab:ex2rhetorical}\\
\toprule
\textit{Retrospective Features}
& \textit{M} (\textit{SD})
& \textit{Range}
& \textit{Mode} (\textit{Frequency}) \\
\midrule
\textbf{Segmentational Grouping} & & & \\
\quad (1) \textit{Next Note Onset} (s) & .57 (.44) & .1--1.8 & \\
\quad (2) \textit{Next Bass Note Onset (s)} & .97 (.77) & .1--2.8 & \\
\quad (3) \textit{Next Soprano Note Onset} (s) & .99 (.66) & .1--2.6 & \\
\quad (4) \textit{Event Density}\tnote{a} & 9.98 (5.25) & 3--19 & \\
\quad (5) \textit{Caesura}\tnote{b} & & & Absent (28) \\
\quad (6) \textit{Elision}\tnote{c} & & & None (26) \\
\textbf{Temporal Function} & & & \\
\quad (7) \textit{Interthematic Function}\tnote{d} & & & End (20) \\
\quad (8) \textit{Intrathematic Function} & & & Beginning (19) \\
\quad (9) \textit{Repetition} & & & Present (25) \\
\quad (10) \textit{Stimulus Length} (s) & 15.68 (4.14) & 9.2--27.6 & \\
\quad (11) \textit{Stimulus Length from CA} (s) & 7.20 (2.15) & 3.6--14.1 & \\
\bottomrule
\insertTableNotes
\end{longtable}
\end{ThreePartTable}
}
\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] threeparttable notes layout

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The para setting in threeparttable uses an interesting collection of penalties and glue but I think you just want to change the length indicated (the default is 1em I changed it to 6em here) Unrelated but I also changed [h] to [htp] as using h on its own is asking the float to go to the end of the document.

\documentclass[12pt]{memoir}

\usepackage[para,online,flushleft]{threeparttable}

\makeatletter
\def\TPT@doparanotes{\par
   \prevdepth\z@ \TPT@hsize
   \TPTnoteSettings
   \parindent\z@ \pretolerance 8
   \linepenalty 200
   \renewcommand\item[1][]{\relax\ifhmode \begingroup
       \unskip
       \advance\hsize 10em % \hsize is scratch register, based on real hsize
       \penalty -45 \hskip\z@\@plus\hsize \penalty-19
       \hskip .15\hsize \penalty 9999 \hskip-.15\hsize
       \hskip .01\hsize\@plus-\hsize\@minus.01\hsize 
       \hskip 6em\@plus .3em
              %%%%%
      \endgroup\fi
      \tnote{##1}\,\ignorespaces}%
   \let\TPToverlap\relax
   \def\endtablenotes{\par}%
}

\makeatother
\begin{document}
\par
Lets test the threeparttable package.
\begin{table}[htp]
\caption{Some very informative caption}
\begin{center}
\begin{threeparttable}
\begin{tabular}{c c c c}
    \toprule
    \textbf{1st Column} & \textbf{2nd Colimn} & \textbf{3rd Colimn} & \textbf{4th Colimn} \\ \midrule
      QWERTY\tnote{1}   &                     &                     &  \\
      ASDFGH\tnote{2}   &                     &                     &  \\ \bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\begin{tablenotes}
\item[1] qwerty; \item[2] asdfgh
\end{tablenotes}
\end{threeparttable}
\end{center}
\label{table:simDisimCoefNewDef}
\end{table}
\end{document}

[Tex/LaTex] Table width with threeparttable smaller than notes and caption

I still am having issues with the \centerline command; this isn't the best centering command to use, I'd recommend the \begin{center} environment or {\centering ... } instead.

So the real answer to your question is to use

\renewcommand{\TPTminimum}{\linewidth}

to redefine the minimum amount of space that is used by the caption and the notes in the threeparttable environment. Doing so like this gives a result that, strictly, is what you asked for:

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{threeparttable}
\usepackage{booktabs}

\begin{document}


\begin{table}[h]

\begin{threeparttable}
\renewcommand{\TPTminimum}{\linewidth}
\caption{The is ment to be a very long table caption, which is wider than the table itself.}
\label{table:meanerrorbaseline}
{\centering
\begin{tabular}{cc}
\toprule
Endowment & Mean error \\ 
\midrule
0         & 1.67       \\
1         & 1.49*      \\
2         & 1.42**     \\
3         & 1.30***    \\
4         & 1.15***    \\
5         & 1.15***    \\
6         & 1.09***    \\
7         & 1.02***    \\
8         & 0.92***    \\
9         & 0.85***    \\
10        & 0.76**     \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}
}
\begin{tablenotes}
  \small
     \item The note is ment to be wider than the table itself, without having to make  the table wider and making it look ugly. 
   \end{tablenotes}
\end{threeparttable}

\end{table}
\end{document}

...it looks like this:

table wide offcenter

Your next logical question would be, "How do I center the table within the caption?" The only recommended solution I could find to this was in Why isn't my table centering with threeparttable?. The answers there either omitted the caption at the top of the table or did not deal with the wide table issue (omitting the \renewcommand{\TPTminimum}{...}). Using the \makebox... solution, we come close to what is desired, but only if the caption is left off, or moved to the bottom:

\documentclass[]{article}

\usepackage{threeparttable}
\usepackage{booktabs}

\begin{document}

\begin{table}[h]
\begin{threeparttable}
\renewcommand{\TPTminimum}{\linewidth}
%\caption{The is ment to be a very long table caption, which is wider than the table itself.}
%\label{table:meanerrorbaseline}
\makebox[\linewidth]{%
\begin{tabular}{cc}
\toprule
Endowment & Mean error \\ 
\midrule
0         & 1.67 \\
1         & 1.49*      \\
2         & 1.42**     \\
3         & 1.30***    \\
4         & 1.15***    \\
5         & 1.15***    \\
6         & 1.09***    \\
7         & 1.02***    \\
8         & 0.92***    \\
9         & 0.85***    \\
10        & 0.76**     \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}}
\begin{tablenotes}
  \small
  \item The note is meant to be wider than the table itself, without having to make  the table wider and making it look ugly. 
   \end{tablenotes}
\end{threeparttable}
\end{table}

\end{document}

Without the caption, this appears as:

wide table, no caption, centered

So how do we get both? The solution I came up with uses extra columns on the sides of the table that pad the table, centering it within the caption. It is a bit of a hack, but it solves the problem in a way that other more elegant solutions cannot.

The code:

\documentclass[]{article}

\usepackage{threeparttable}
\usepackage{booktabs}

\begin{document}

\begin{table}[h]
\begin{threeparttable}
%\renewcommand{\TPTminimum}{\linewidth}
\caption{The is ment to be a very long table caption, which is wider than the table itself.}
\label{table:meanerrorbaseline}
\begin{tabular}{cccc}
\cmidrule[\heavyrulewidth]{2-3} % \toprule
~\rule{1in}{0in} & Endowment & Mean error  & \rule{1in}{0in}~ \\ 
\cmidrule[\lightrulewidth]{2-3} % \midrule
& 0         & 1.67 &  \\
& 1         & 1.49*    &   \\
& 2         & 1.42**    &  \\
& 3         & 1.30***  &   \\
& 4         & 1.15***   &  \\
& 5         & 1.15***   &  \\
& 6         & 1.09***   &  \\
& 7         & 1.02***   &  \\
& 8         & 0.92***   &  \\
& 9         & 0.85***   &  \\
& 10        & 0.76**    &  \\
\cmidrule[\heavyrulewidth]{2-3} % \bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\begin{tablenotes}
  \small
  \item The note is meant to be wider than the table itself, without having to make  the table wider and making it look ugly. 
   \end{tablenotes}
\end{threeparttable}
\end{table}

\end{document}

This appears as:

wide captions, centered table

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