[OS X TeX] Long line in \description environment

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 24.08.2009 um 22:17 schrieb Manuel:

> Now I have tried to change the numerical value of [2ex], but this  
> only changed the separation of the paragraphs, so obviously, I  
> don't understand what you mean.


Of course I first assumed when you was writing about "vertical space  
between all lines" that you meant the space between the parboxes in  
the tabular environment. \vspace does not always work, sometimes you  
have to use \vspace*. (And this still fails so often to work.) So  
what you may have meant is the amount of line spacing? The space  
between any lines of text? The leading? (It has nothing to do with  
'to lead' but a heavy metal of low melting point.) If it's that, then  
I think NFSS2 (New Font Selection Scheme, version 2) is best. Here  
you can artificially increase (or decrease) the space between lines  
of text:

	\fontsize{10pt}{15pt}\selectfont

\baselineskip is the name of the leading variable. There exists a  
\linespread{factor} which can modulate the leading, but only once: in  
the preamble. With

	\usepackage{lmodern}

in the preamble you could use any font size. (The preamble you showed  
recently would use Computer Modern with only a few discrete font sizes.)

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   Pete

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