[Tex/LaTex] Two double spaces between paragraphs

paragraphsspacing

How can I set two double spaces between all paragraphs in a report? I have already set double spaces between lines with this command:

\usepackage{setspace}
\doublespacing

Best Answer

As Thorsten alludes to above, the idea is to use the parskip package since it redefines list items and a couple other things to cope with the large increase in between each "paragraph". I wonder if it shouldn't redefine more, such as spacing around a figure, but I haven't investigated its limitations.

Unfortunately, the amount of space added between the paragraphs in parskip is fixed; here's how you'd change it:

\usepackage{setspace}
\doublespacing
\usepackage{parskip}
\parskip=2\baselineskip \advance\parskip by 0pt plus 2pt

The additional stretch will help to jiggle things around on the page in case you don't have an exact integer number of paragraph lines of text worth of content (e.g., there exists a table or figure on the page).

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