To doublespace a LaTeX document, you should include the line

        \usepackage{setspace}

after your \documentclass line. 

Before your \begin{document} command,

	\doublespacing

will make the text of the whole document doublespaced.  Footnotes,
figures, and tables will still be singlespaced, however. For one-and-a-half
spacing, instead use the command

	\onehalfspacing

In order to make a part of the text of your document singlespaced, you can
put:

	\begin{singlespace}

at the beginning of the text you want singlespaced, and

	\end{singlespace}

at the end.

You can also set the spacing to be something other than doublespaced; for
example, if you wanted to have one-and-a-quarter spacing between lines,
use the line

	\setstretch{1.25}

before your \begin{document} command, and after the
\usepackage{setspace} line.


(NOTE: there is another package, called "doublespace" which will
 usually work exactly the same way as setspace.  However, it interacts
 poorly with some graphics packages.) 


Last updated: 4/18/2002