\documentclass{article} \usepackage{setspace} \usepackage{lipsum} \onehalfspacing \begin{document} \title{merry setspace christmas test} \author{who cares?} \date{2011-12-19} \maketitle \section{dummy} \lipsum[1] \subsection{first offspring} \lipsum[2] \begin{tabular}{llr} a & silly & story about latex \\ silly & a & story \end{tabular} \end{document} %%% Local Variables: %%% mode: latex %%% TeX-master: t %%% End: