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Format a verbatim paragraph

How can I format a verbatim paragraph? I.e. break, fill and join input lines to produce globally balanced output with the lengths of each line approaching the target \textwidth as closely as possible. ...
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How to set lengths only for a specific environment (parindent for paracol in this case)?

Is it possible to set a length specifically for an environment? I know it is possible to change lengths for parts of the document only, by placing the \setlength command between {}, but when using an ...
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Reliable code for automatic \noindent after specific environments?

There are a number of environments which I never want to follow up with an indented paragraph. itemize, enumerate, theorem, definition, etc. I know there are people who think this is bad style. But ...
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How to hold all lines in a defined environment? [duplicate]

\def\Grammercaption{\textbf{Grammer}} \def\grammer{\bgroup\ignorespaces\Grammercaption\fontsize{10}{13pt}\selectfont} \def\grammer{\egroup} I want all lines of text within this environment stick ...
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How to indent part of line to certain amount?

I apologize if this is a basic question, but I'm new to LaTeX and typography in general, and I'm not sure how to articulate my question properly. I have a document which looks like this: ...
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Environments with thmtools => too much space if using itemize at the end (also problem with q.e.d. symbol)

I want to use the thmtools package, because it provides some awesome features for declaring environments (proofs, theorems, examples etc.) And I especially like the "qed" feature which places some ...
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New environment. Highlight content with symbols and indentation

I'm writing my thesis and I want to highlight some part of my text which resides in a separate paragraph. I like the well-known example of \newenvironment{king} {\rule{1ex}{1ex}\hspace{\stretch{1}}} ...
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LaTeX adds an additional blank paragraph after the end of my custom environment

A friend, who is a LaTeX user but isn't very confident with customising it, told me that he would like to be able to put framed paragraphs and framed equations into his documents. So I took it upon ...
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New paragraph style for newbie

This question may have already been asked, but with all of my searching, I couldn’t find it. I am new to LaTeX and after a few rough starts, I am finding my way. I am using this tool to create ...
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Paragraph indenting in an mdframed environment

I'm using the mdframed package and I've defined my own environment. But it seems that paragraph indentation doesn't work inside a mdframed environment. I've used the settings option of mdframed to ...
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Adding something automatically to every paragraph in an environment

I'd like to know if it's possible to have something added automatically to any paragraph in a given environment. I use LaTeX mostly for doing fill-in-the-blank worksheets at the school where I work. ...
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Vertical space before horizontal line

I have defined an exercise environment which ends with a horizontal rule. I want to have some vertical space between the end of the environment text and the rule. When I try to insert that, the ...
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How can I indent all text after the label in my example environment

I have built my own example environment for a paper I am working on. I have created a counter to label the resulting blocks of text. Now I want to indent the Text after the label, like so: (1) ...
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Testing for a blank line (“paragraph”) immediately after \begin{document}

(With this question, I hope to resolve an edge case relevant for my quoting package.) Suppose I define a customized environment for displayed text. It resembles the standard LaTeX environment quote ...
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Change line spacing for normal text, but not in tabular or verse

\usepackage{setspace} \doublespacing I used above two lines to change the spacing in my document. This changes the spacing of the entire document. My requirement is to change the line spacing in ...
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What exactly does \@doendpe do?

Quoting from the LaTeX2e sources: [\@endparenv, \@doendpe] To suppress the paragraph indentation in text immediately following a paragraph-making environment, \everypar is changed to remove ...
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How to highlight paragraph (linebreak preserving) as well as itemize, tabular etc.?

I want to highlight changes which are introduced by myself in the pdf document. So far the soul package is very neat but it does throw errors when I want to highlight not only paragraphs but also some ...
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How to prevent paragraph breaks after theorem environments?

By default, the list environments (such as itemize) have the nice property that if you add a blank line after it, it starts a new paragraph, and if you don't, the paragraph continues. So The ...