[Tex/LaTex] Vertical skip between p{…} rows of tabular

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I want to increase a bit the vertical spacing in my tabular table. I did something like this:

\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}

\begin{tabular}{p{4cm}p{4cm}}
  Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur & adipisicing elit \\[6pt]
  sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore & et dolore magna aliqua.\\
\end{tabular}

\end{document}

but to my surprise, it doesn't work – it seems that the extra vertical space from [12pt] is somehow eaten by the space beneath the (shorter) parbox. What should I do?

Best Answer

You could put a strut in the first column.

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{tabular}{p{4cm}p{4cm}}
  Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur\rule[-6pt]{0pt}{6pt} & adipisicing elit \\
  sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore & et dolore magna aliqua.\\
\end{tabular}
\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] How to add extra spaces between rows in tabular environment

You have at least three options here:

Increasing the array stretch factor using \renewcommand{\arraystretch}{<factor>} where <factor> is a numeric value:

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\renewcommand{\arraystretch}{2}
\begin{tabular}{c c}
  $f^{(n)}(x)$ & $f^{(n)}(0)$ \\\hline
  $-2xe^{-x^{x^{x^2}}}$ & 0
\end{tabular}
\end{document}

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Explicitly specifying the row skip using \\[<len>] where <len> is any length:

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{tabular}{c c}
  $f^{(n)}(x)$ & $f^{(n)}(0)$ \\[1cm] \hline
  $-2xe^{-x^{x^{x^2}}}$ & 0
\end{tabular}
\end{document}

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Modifying the array package's \extrarowheight length using \setlength{\extrarowheight}{<len>}, where <len> is any length:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{array}% http://ctan.org/pkg/array
\begin{document}
\setlength{\extrarowheight}{20pt}
\begin{tabular}{c c}
  $f^{(n)}(x)$ & $f^{(n)}(0)$ \\\hline
  $-2xe^{-x^{x^{x^2}}}$ & 0
\end{tabular}
\end{document}

enter image description here

In the above examples, the \hline was used to illustrate the effect of the different styles used. The choice depends on the specific usage/typesetting of the tabular within your document.

Finally, if the contents of your entire tabular is math, you could typeset it in an array environment:

\[
  \begin{array}{c c}
    f^{(n)}(x) & f^{(n)}(0) \\
    -2xe^{-x^{x^{x^2}}} & 0
  \end{array}
\]

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