[Tex/LaTex] \vspace inside a command to add space between paragraphs but not before sections

sectioningspacing

I'm using a custom command to typeset some phrases and I need to put some vertical space between them. Unfortunately, this adds vertical space also before section and subsection headings.

As I have to type a lot of quotes, it would be nice to have \vspace automatically removed before sectioning commands.

Is there anyway to prevent \vspace to behave like this?

\documentclass[]{article}

\usepackage{lipsum}

\newcommand{\philquote}[1]{\noindent ``#1'' \vspace{12pt}}

\begin{document}

\section{Section 1}

\philquote{Socrates asked questions but gave no replies: for he confessed he had no knowledge}

\philquote{Socrates asked questions but gave no replies: for he confessed he had no knowledge}

\section{Section 2} % Wrong vertical spacing

\lipsum[1]

\section{Section 3} % Correct vertical spacing

\end{document}

Best Answer

Instead of \vspace{12pt} you can use \par\addvspace{12pt}:

\documentclass[]{article}

\usepackage{lipsum}

\newcommand{\philquote}[1]{\noindent ``#1'' \par\addvspace{12pt}}

\begin{document}

\section{Section 1}

\philquote{Socrates asked questions but gave no replies: for he confessed he had no knowledge}

\philquote{Socrates asked questions but gave no replies: for he confessed he had no knowledge}

\section{Section 2} % Correct vertical spacing

\lipsum[1]

\section{Section 3} % Correct vertical spacing

\end{document}

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UPDATED ANSWER

Do \usepackage[nostruts]{titlesec}, which will remove the struts like my answer below did.

The feature was added with version 2.11, released 2019-07-16.

ORIGINAL ANSWER

The package titlesec adds \strut in some places. In your case you have to defeat this behavior in three places:

\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{margin=5mm, paper=a6paper, showframe=true}

\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\makeatletter
\patchcmd{\ttl@select}{\strut}{}{}{}
\patchcmd{\ttlh@hang}{\strut}{}{}{}
\patchcmd{\ttlh@hang}{\strut}{}{}{}
\makeatother

\titleformat*\section{\Large}
\titleformat*\subsection{\large}

\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}

\section*{Using titlesec}
\subsection*{Lorem Ipsum}
\lipsum[3]
\end{document}

The macros involved are \ttl@select and \ttlh@hang (in the second one \strut appears twice. If other styles are selected it may be necessary to patch \ttlh@display or \ttlh@runin.

[Tex/LaTex] Double-spaced paragraphs with single-spaced headers in classicthesis

Redo the relevant \titleformat command:

\documentclass[headinclude, oneside]{scrbook}
\usepackage[eulerchapternumbers,beramono,pdfspacing]{classicthesis}
\usepackage{arsclassica}
\usepackage{setspace}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\titleformat{\section}
  {\singlespacing}
  {\textsc{\MakeTextLowercase{\thesection}}}
  {1em}
  {\spacedlowsmallcaps}


\begin{document}
\doublespacing

\section[A short section name]{A long section name that spans multiple lines within the document but
should be single-spaced}

\lipsum[1]

\section[Another short section name]{Another long section name that spans multiple lines within the
document but should be single-spaced}

\lipsum[2]
\end{document}

With or without arsclassica is the same.

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[Tex/LaTex] Remove spacing above section in titlesec

UPDATED ANSWER

ORIGINAL ANSWER

[Tex/LaTex] Double-spaced paragraphs with single-spaced headers in classicthesis

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