{indentation} is about the first-line indentation of normal {paragraphs} as well as about the indentation of, e.g., {lists}, {quoting} environments, {captions}, and the various elements (sectioning numbers, titles, ...) in a {table-of-contents}.
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Indicating the beginning of a paragraph with a ¶ just inside the margin
How does one most easily typeset a paragraph marker inside the margin, at the beginning of every paragraph?
There are different practices regarding the indication of paragraph boundaries.
...
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1answer
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How to get headings indented as the first lines of paragraphs?
I would like the chapter and (sub)section headings to be indented as much as the first lines of paragraphs (\parindent value).
By default using koma-script I get them aligned with left boundary of ...
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vote
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No indent in description list
I have the following text in LaTeX:
I want that the second sentence of item A starts below the first word of the first sentence (So 'It is raw...' is outlined with 'Data are facts...'). I have ...
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0answers
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Table of Contents section numbers overlap titles, Sphinx Documentation Generator
I'm attempting to use the Sphinx Documentation Generator to generate a large PDF document with a lot of deeply nested sections with long title(API documentation). I'm not very knowledgeable on LaTeX.
...
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algorithm2e indentation / line break
I have the following problem: I am writing a couple of algorithms using algorithm2e. I have a bunch of longer if statements and longer if conditions.
The lines are broken, but the new lines are not ...
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1answer
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how to tag an equation within an itemize - using amsart
I'm doing the following thing
\documentclass[leqno]{amsart}
\begin{document}
Example.
\begin{itemize}
\item Such and so
\item the following holds
\begin{align}
x - 2
\end{align}
...
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Paragraph indentation incorrect with picinpar package
I am using the picinpar package and don't know why the paragraph indentation is not working. The problem words are highlighted:
Notes:
I am not stuck to using the picinpar package, but want to ...
4
votes
2answers
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Insufficient width for chapter numbers in ToC
I'm trying to format my thesis, and I copied the formatting stuff from a friend who finished her thesis last year. Unfortunately, she only had two chapters and then subsections. I have more chapters, ...
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0answers
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Title indentation after linebreak
I have a document with a few long-named sections, which breaks at two lines, like this:
To meet some standarts I need to change indentation of this titles (after linebreak) at the level of normal ...
3
votes
1answer
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Align text with heading
Is there an easy way to align the text block with a section title?
It should look like this:
1 Introduction
This is an example text.
1.1 Section
This text should also be ...
4
votes
1answer
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Indentation of continued lines in algorithmicx
Trying to get the indentation right within the algorithmic environment I run into trouble, and all the solutions posted so far have not been able to solve my problem as I'd like to see it solved.
I ...
3
votes
1answer
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Why does indentation immediately after a section heading not work? [duplicate]
When I start a section and attempt to indent the first paragraph with \indent, the command has no effect:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
% Section 0
\indent Paragraph 1. % ...
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Indent problem after section, subsection, subsubsection heading [duplicate]
After the section heading or subsection, the \indent command doesn't work. I need to give double \indent to make it indent one tab. Is this a known issue or some feature that I'm not aware of?
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Indentation of sections and paragraphs to show hierarchy [duplicate]
I am having troubles with the format of a work that I'm doing. The default output of LaTeX looks like:
1.1. Section A
Latex latex latex latex.
1.1.1. Subsection A-1
Latex latex latex ...
4
votes
1answer
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Exam Lines (not with the exam package)
I'm a newbie to LaTeX as of a couple days ago, and was delighted to hear of an exam package that would ease my pain. However, I've worked out that the exam paper I am trying to emulate definitely did ...
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votes
1answer
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Numbers too close to figure captions in List of Figures, can this be fixed without changing the class?
On my List of Figures page, my figures go up to 4 digits, such as Figure 13.14.
This causes the figure list to be right up against the text, such as:
13.9 My figure
13.10My next figure
I need to ...
2
votes
1answer
46 views
Multiple text layouts in one LyX document
In general I want to use a 3mm spacing as my text layout for space between paragraphs.
However, this produces an extremely spaced out Table of Contents. Hence, I would like to use an indent paragraph ...
4
votes
2answers
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Paragraph indent, both \indent and \par, not working
Preamble. I use Win 8 Pro x64, MiKTeX 2.9, TeXnicCenter latest version.
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\usepackage{xltxtra}
\usepackage{xunicode}
...
2
votes
1answer
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ctex package and indentation
It seems that ctex package by default indents the first paragraphs. The issue can be solved with \noindent, but I would like to restore the default settings for which after a heading no indentation ...
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0answers
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Things written in \thanks are indented. I don't want that [duplicate]
When I insert footnotes in my text, the first line of them is indented, which looks ugly. To prevent indentation I use
\usepackage[hang,flushmargin]{footmisc}
When I use \thanks{...} (to add ...
2
votes
1answer
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Line break in list in indented theorem
I'm trying to make an indented theorem environment as in A theoremstyle with complete indentation using amsthm.
Here's a minimal (non-)working example:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsthm}
...
4
votes
2answers
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Indent paragraph to horizontally align with enumerate environment
I have an enumerated list with points, intersected with comments to each point. I would like to align my comments vertically with the itemized points in the enumerated list. Below a MWE with its ...
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0answers
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Name of length for equation number indent if [leqno] is set [closed]
I got a weird phenomenon as shown in the picture below. The equation numbering is indented.
I tried the same thing in a fresh document and it produces the result I am looking for. For the other ...
2
votes
1answer
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How can I indent the second line of a linguistic gloss with gb4e.sty?
In accordance with the documentation, I've been happily plodding along making interlinear glosses. So far so good! But things get ugly when I make a longer gloss.
Looking at example (5) on page (6) ...
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votes
2answers
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How to align continued/spilled line to part of the sentence
Is there any way to align the spilled over line to a particular part within the sentence
I want to align the second line under MS Office....
\textbf{Software} --- MS Office Powerpoint, Software 1, ...
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vote
1answer
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Indentation and page colors with standalone
Question
I want to create a page whose size is cropped to the size of the content on the page. I also want to be able to have indented paragraphs and to set the color of text and background. Is there ...
0
votes
0answers
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List of figures indentation [duplicate]
I am writing my thesis and I am experiencing a problem with the space between numbering and the image name. You can see the problem in the picture I include in this question. It starts from 3.10.
How ...
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votes
2answers
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How to replace fixed indentation of ToC entry names with fixed space between number and name?
How to make indents as in the second image?
This is what it looks like now:
This is what it should look like:
MWE:
\documentclass[a4paper, 14pt, english]{extreport}
\usepackage[T2A]{fontenc} ...
2
votes
1answer
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Getting back the paragraph in cleanThesis?
I want to use http://cleanthesis.der-ric.de/ for my PhD diss because I dont get into classicThesis. But unfortunately if I press return in my latex code this does not produce an paragraph as usual but ...
3
votes
1answer
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Testing and modifying white space around an environment
I'm trying to create something similar to marginpar but without the hassle of floats (particularly because I'm going to have a lot of these).
First issue These notes always appear at the beginning of ...
3
votes
1answer
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Beamer - mystery indent
I've got the following frame:
\begin{frame}
\frametitle{TP-Basis}
Ausgangspunkt:
\begin{align*}
s(x) = \begin{cases} a+bx & x \leq k \\ c+dx & x > k \end{cases}
\end{align*}
...
5
votes
1answer
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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 ...
2
votes
2answers
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How can I eliminate section headers, while keeping the first paragraph of each section unindented?
I would like to have the sections of my document to just be separated by a vertical space, with no visible section header. Furthermore, I would like the first paragraph of each section start without ...
3
votes
2answers
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No indentation after \paragraph command not working
I'm trying to create a new command called \domanda{}, that makes use of the \paragraph{} to create a series of questions with Q: in-built, together with their answers on a new line, WITHOUT ...
2
votes
1answer
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LyX: Removing indentation from a table
I want to make a table that has terms on the left side with .25\textwidth and descriptions on the right side with .75\textwidth Like
Name: asdjoia
Position: ...
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votes
0answers
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Avoid stanza indentation in eledpar
I'm typesetting epic verse in parallel text format, i.e. with the original langugage on one page and the translation on the facing page. Having played around with a number of parallel packages, it ...
4
votes
1answer
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Indent ONLY the first paragraph of a section/subsection/subsubsecion
I need to indent only the first paragraph of each section/subsection/subsubsection. Is it possible in a more clever way than using the indentfirst package and \noindent on each non-first paragraph?
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votes
1answer
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Endnotes numbered by regular arabic numbers (instead of superscripts) and without indentation
The Latex document below (from my earlier question Chapter name appearing in the endnotes) produces endnotes which are numbered by arabic numbers in the superscript, and there is indentation for each ...
2
votes
2answers
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Setting text indentation inside itemize
Inside my LaTeX file I code something like this:
\begin{itemize}
\item Item NO 1
\\paragraph no1 paragraph no1 paragraph no1 paragraph no1 paragraph no1
paragraph no1 paragraph no1 paragraph no1 ...
5
votes
1answer
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LyX: Paragraphs ignored in PDF output
I have a document with article class. Here's the minimal example:
#LyX 2.0 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
\lyxformat 413
\begin_document
\begin_header
\textclass article
...
7
votes
2answers
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Indentation in the algorithm package after \Ensure, \Require
I have this piece of code:
\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage{algorithm}
\usepackage{algpseudocode}
\usepackage{varwidth}
\begin{document}
\begin{algorithmic}
\Require ...
6
votes
1answer
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Indentation of shorthands list
A subdivision of my of my references is a shorthands list. In order to get it to look like the other subdivision, a regular authoryear-ibid bibliography, I've added this to the preamble:
...
0
votes
2answers
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First indent is shorter than it should be
I am using \paragraph{} at the beginning of chapter. All my paragraphs are intended automatically but first indent is always little bit shorter than others (I mean that white space).
Does anyone ...
2
votes
0answers
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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 ...
3
votes
1answer
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Inhibit indentation in paragraph after using the “quoting” package
A little while ago I asked this questions concerning how to quote in the style of "quotation" but without the first paragraph being indented. The answer I got was to use the quoting package instead of ...
5
votes
1answer
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Change font size and indentation in reference section
I am writing a paper for a conference. They provided the a LaTeX style file however the compiled reference section is different from their own requirement. They require font size 8, no indentation, ...
3
votes
1answer
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How to add more indentation for section in table of contents
I would like to move sections in my TOC more to the right =) The picture will explain all:
Here is my code so far (This code will give me the upper part in the picture):
...
4
votes
1answer
105 views
Fool-proof paragraph skipping
I'm using XeLaTeX, and I need to have paragraphs that are only separated by vertical space, and with no indentation. However, no matter what I try, I always get indented paragraphs. This is my ...
7
votes
1answer
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How to add horizontal whitespace in my text?
I have the following problem:
Is there an easy and quick way to change the upper part to the lower? I tried using \hspace, but it had no effect. I'm new to TeX so bear with me ;D
0
votes
1answer
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Apply ToC part indenting to chapter
I have a problem with my ToC chapter titles similar to one posted a long while back about part titles. I'm looking for guidance on how to apply these changes to chapter titles. I'm working with the ...
