Short hand for \\[space]

Question

Hi I am following the method here

How to specify the row height in LaTeX table?

To increase the table row height, I was wondering is there a way to create a new command for

\\[space]

to something like \\\ or similar so that I can change [space] globally?

Answer 1

You can follow @werner 's suggestion which will effect every tabular environment. Or you can define a new length:

\newlength{\mylength}
\setlength{\mylength}{3ex}

\begin{tabular}{cccc}
 col A & col B & col C & \\[\mylength]
 some  & content & for & row 2
\end{tabular}