How to put two newlines in LaTeX

Question

How can I put two consecutive newlines in LaTeX? If I put two \\ the compiler gives me an error.

You should add the error you are getting. Also there is a speific stackoverflow for Latex. — plaisthos, Oct 16 '14 at 08:53
It gives me only a question mark, sorry about putting the topic in the wrong place. — , Oct 16 '14 at 08:58
Not sure why you need it. You could use \\[\baselineskip]. — , Oct 22 '14 at 14:27
Perhaps this is old behaviour, but four backslashes in a row in a minimal document does not give me an error. Anyway, \\ should nearly never be used in text mode, only in special environments. — Andrew Swann, Mar 13 '18 at 16:07

score 92 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 16 '14 at 09:27

92

You can either specify two line breaks with

\\~\\

or specify the height of the break (for example, for a 2-inch break)

\\[2in]

You can use this form to define the height of the break to be actually two lines

\\[2\baselineskip]

answered Oct 16 '14 at 09:27

Alexis Pigeon

1

All 3 of your commands work as advertised, but they throw the following messages when using TexMaker and linux command line pdflatex: "Type: Badbox" (the line number it happens on and "Message: Underfull \hbox ..." and these messages seem to appear no matter what type of content occurs before them. Thoughts? – Thom Ives Aug 22 '19 at 02:45
The first one is equivalent to \\\\ though? There's still the underfull hbox warning. (the 2 other works.) I think the most likely reason is spacing - How can I force a \hspace at the beginning of a line? - TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange – user202729 Jan 21 '22 at 01:44

score 30 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 22 '14 at 14:02

30

The “correct” way to do this is adding \medskip or \bigskip:

...
some words that end a paragraph.

\medskip % or \bigskip

Here the new paragraph starts
...

answered Oct 22 '14 at 14:02

egreg

score 10 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 22 '14 at 14:19

10

You could also type

\par\null\par

answered Oct 22 '14 at 14:19

Mico

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