Adding vertical space between lines in vim

Question

Summary: I'd like to view my text in vim with a small bit of extra vertical space between some lines.

I'm writing latex in vim, and have each sentence on a new line. I'd like to add a little bit of vertical space (a few pixels) between sentences to make them clearer. I don't want to add anything to the buffer, just to how I view it.

I don't want to add a whole newline, as that has meaning in latex.

Example text:

Conventional wisdom states that a compiled program should run an
order-of-magnitude faster than an interpreted program.
In our experience, however, dynamic scripting languages do not follow this rule
of thumb.
Instead, a program written in a scripting language spends most of its run-time
handling dynamic features, such as dynamic types and \code{zval}s.
This limits the potential improvement of simply removing the interpreter loop.
This is particularly important for a compiler like \phc{} which re-uses the PHP
system, as many of the code paths executed will be the same, whether the program
is interpreted or compiled.

Any ideas?

Update:

Maybe something with breakat, linebreak, showbreak and linespace, but I dont think this is enough.

• linespace will put space between every line, but I'd like space only after lines ending in .
• The others aren't enough without some equivalent to linespace

Answer 1

If you're using gvim, can't you do this command?

:set linespace=5