Questions tagged [spacing]
{spacing} is about both horizontal and vertical white space, e.g. space between letters or words, or space between paragraphs. For adjusting the space between the lines of a document, use {line-spacing} or -- if your question is specifically about the package of the same name -- {setspace}.
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Specific formatting in the table of contents
I am trying to make a few subtle changes to the default table of contents in document{report}.
I need the table of contents entries to adhere to the global \doublespacing, except for when an entry ...
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Eliminating vertical space around sections within mixed columns
This question is specifically about eliminating the vertical spacing around section elements within a mixed columns block (ConTeXt version 2025.07.08 17:48). Example:
\setuphead[section][after=\...
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Latex merge vertical spacing
I'm writing a command so as to design a type of paragraph starting with a non-indented title and with some minimal spacing before it.
\newcommand{\loctitle}[1]{\medskip\noindent\textit{#1.}}
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Table of contents change vertical space between title/first chapter and title/page top margin
How can I decrease the space between the toc title and the top page margin and also the toc title and the first entry of toc?
\documentclass[12pt,oneside,ngerman]{book}
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Hfill not working as expected when placing two figures side-by-side
I'm placing two figures side-by-side inside of minipages as recommended by this answer. It's exactly the behavior I want except for the horizontal spacing. I'd like more space between the figures and ...
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How to add a small vertical space above and below a table?
Is there a way to add some sort of "padding" around tables to increase space between the table and above/below text? I tried \setlength{\intextsep}{2cm} but nothing happened. I know I can ...
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How can unexpected vertical spacing caused by a TikZ picture inside a subfigure be eliminated?
Edit: The missing boost.tex and boost_new.tex files have been included, the figure was updated to show bounding boxes and baselines, and the original figure code is replaced with a minimal main.tex ...
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Getting errors with multirow and siunitx, and uncertainty spacing
I am trying to use siunitx to write tables. I am coming across two problems.
Using Multirow like so:
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage{siunitx}
\sisetup{separate-uncertainty=true,
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Correct way of typesetting a "relation" plus a "quantity" in LaTeX?
I need advice with how best to do this. I'm using siunitx to typeset quantities and units in a standard way, but I do not know how to handle approximate quantities.
Look at my sentence (complete with ...
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framezoom vertically center zoomed area in consecutive frames
I'm struggling with the use of \framezoom, by looking around I was able to find a clever way to horizontally center the image I'm zooming into with this: \usepackage[export]{adjustbox} combined with ...
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Inconsistent header spacing in chapter titles [duplicate]
I want to move all headers and text closer to the top of the page, eliminating the empty space above every header. Is it normal in latex to have space before headers? Im new to latex. I tried alot of ...
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How to make vertical space around proof agree with paragraph spacing in new envrionment
\documentclass[12pt,letterpaper]{article}
\usepackage{amsmath,amssymb,amsthm,mathrsfs,mathtools,accents,xpatch}
\usepackage{enumerate,geometry,multicol,graphicx,hyperref}
\usepackage[many]{tcolorbox}
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Align top AND bottom of columns in `columns` environment in beamer
In beamer, I can align the top OR the bottom of the columns using \begin{columns}[t] or \begin{columns}[b] respectively. Is there any way to align both automatically? Below is a MRE. In this case I ...
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Section and subsection numbers overlaping in the ToC
My documents have about 20 chapters, lots of sections and subsections. The ToC is then producing some overlaps, as shown with this MWE code:
\documentclass[11pt,twoside]{book}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}...
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The dots filling in the ToC and list of codes
I'm trying to get a nicer dots filling in the ToC and the list of codes, as shown with the MWE code below. The code appears to work nicely, but I'm wondering if there's a simpler and better way in ...
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