How to add extra whitespace between section header and a paragraph

Question:

I want to have more space between the header and the paragraph and between the paragraphs. I doesn’t want this to be a global setting but I want to use it where and when required. Appreciate any suggestions.

Asked By: Aravind Yarram

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Answers:

You can use vertical bars at the beginning of lines to produce blank lines in the output. Like this:

Heading
-------

|
|

Paragraph with text.
Answered By: mzjn

I just had this problem and as davidjb pointed out, using | gives you too much space on LaTeX output. This is how I solved it. Define the following:

.. |vspace| raw:: latex

   vspace{5mm}

Then you can just use |vspace| on the places where you want the vertical space to get appropriate vertical space.

If you want spaces in html output as well, you can define:

.. |vspace| raw:: latex

   vspace{5mm}

.. |br| raw:: html

   <br />

Then when you need the space, simply put:

|vspace| |br|

and it will automatically take care of the spacing depending on the output format.

Answered By: joon