Chao-Jen Wong
Some Useful LaTeX Tips


Some useful on-line documents:
Tutorial and simple templates prepared by C.J. Wong:


1. How to increase (or reduce) the default vertical spacing between the equation environment and paragraph text?

  • Locally change default value of \abovedisplayskip

    ...
    {\setlength{\abovedisplayskip}{12pt plus 3pt minus 9pt} %example
        \begin{equation}
        ...
        \end{equation}}

  • If you use the array environment to display a sequence of equations inside the equation environment and find that the vertical spacing among the equations are too narrow, you can do the following:

    \usepackage{array}
    ...
    ...
    {\setlength{\extrarowheight}{length} %let length=9pt
        \begin{equation}
            \begin{array}{}
            ...
            \end{array}
        \end{equation}}
    Last updated: April 15, 2008