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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 ...
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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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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 ...
4
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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?
5
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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
...
0
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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 ...
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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
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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 ...
4
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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 ...
2
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1answer
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Inhibit indentation of first paragraph of quotation
I'm using LyX. Would it be possible to format something as "quotation" in a way in which the first paragraph doesn't get indented but the subsequent paragraphs does, like the way in which text ...
6
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2answers
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Indent Theorem like \hangindent, but for multiple paragraphs
I would like to create a theorem style which indents the theorem exactly like a \hangindent would do, expect that the indention should continue for all paragraphs of the theorem.
For example:
...
5
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170 views
Annoying paragraph spacing issue with memoir
I have a spacing issue while using the memoir class. The main problem is that after the first paragraph there is a line skip and an indentation and afterwards, all the paragraphs are indented properly ...
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How does \\ suppress spurious spaces while \par\noindent doesn't
I'm trying to build a description-list-with-header-line by using a macro. In the non-MWE, the macro adds additional value like index entries and margin notes, but here I have the simplest case ...
5
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Indent text after line 1
How can I accomplish something like this:
Basically, I want my text to be "indented" after the first line. It would be great if somebody knew an answer. Ideally I would like to do this, because I ...
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How can I make a command/environment for a titled paragraph but with the text indented to the title (picture inside)? [duplicate]
Basically I want to make this:
**The title** Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Nam
vestibulum accumsan nisl. Phasellus lacus. Lorem ipsum dolor sit
...
3
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Shorthand for empty line or \\ \indent
This page says that \\ starts a new paragraph.
However, it does not end up looking the same as inserting an empty line in my source code (which I have always used to define paragraphs), which also ...
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1answer
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Subsection, subsubsection, etc. title outside (left of) the subsection, subsubsection, etc. content block
How could I get subsections, subsubsections, paragraphs, and subparagraphs (which I'll call "sections" from now on) that look like the one in this PDF file ?
In this PDF example, the indentation ...
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Using \hangindent within enumerate
I would like to have a hanging indent within the paragraph of an enumerate item. I have the following:
\begin{document}
\begin{enumerate}
\item Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing ...
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2answers
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Paragraph indent after multicols environment
I'm using the multicol package and have found that the paragraph immediately following the multicols environment is indented. This happens even when there is no blank line between the end of the ...
10
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1answer
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No indent in the first paragraph in a section in Plain TeX
I have checked no indent in the first paragraph in a section? but I think my question warrants a new thread, because my question is about Plain TeX.
I am using Plain TeX. I would like to write a ...
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Unexpected list spacing when trying to implement vertical lists in paragraph style (with enumitem)
I'm trying to create a styling for certain numbered lists where they are formatted as normal paragraphs; i.e., a paragraph indent before the label, with all subsequent lines of each item unindented. ...
6
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Newline, indentation, parskip - when to use what in what stylistic manner?
I intend to use scrbook. In real-life literature, English and German language, the text often looks like this:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod ...
3
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1answer
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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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4
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1answer
197 views
Paragraph after \section doesn't indent [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I indent the paragraphs which follow a heading?
I want to ask why "Hello!" doesn't indent.
% work1.tex
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
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In the Cambridge Thesis Template, how do I indent paragraphs? [closed]
This may sound odd but I am having a difficulty correctly setting the indentation of paragraphs. I have used the Cambridge Thesis template for my thesis, am mostly finished and therefore loath to ...
4
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1answer
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Remove indent of paragraph and add line skip with tufte-latex
I'm using tufte-latex and I want paragraphs to have no indent, but a line skip instead. Normally you can achive this with:
\usepackage[parfill]{parskip}
Using tufte-latex this does not work ...
6
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2answers
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Indenting the first line of figure captions
I want to create a small indentation in the first line of figure captions, similar to the way LaTeX indents the first line of paragraphs.
The caption package does not seem to support this.
Is it ...
6
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2answers
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How to indent only the second line of a paragraph?
I am not an expert in Hebrew typesetting, but the majority of the works I study has the second line of each paragraph indented. Is there a package that would allow me to do this, or will this need to ...
7
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1answer
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How can I set lateral margins to every paragraph, but not other elements?
I would like to obtain narrow paragraphs within wide pages, so that section titles, figures, tables, may all be wide, and paragraphs may all be narrow.
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
...
2
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4answers
335 views
Un-indent all paragraphs and increase the space between paragraphs
How could I un-indent all paragraphs and increase the space between paragraphs, avoiding - at the same time - unwanted changes?
Package parskip works partially fine for me (it causes some unwanted ...
5
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2answers
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Enforcing new paragraph indents in book style
I'm having trouble getting the paragraphs in my document to indent. I'm not sure what could be wrong, as I thought this was default behaviour.
Here is a cut down version of my tex file:
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\captionof messes with paragraph indent
\documentclass{mwrep}
\usepackage[font=small,compatibility=false]{caption}
\usepackage[chapter]{minted}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\chapter{Test}
\lipsum[2-3]
\captionof{listing}{Caption of ...
5
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set hanging indent for more than one paragraph at a time
is there a way to start every paragraph in a document with a hanging indent, without defining this for each and every paragraph?
Is this possible without any extra packages loaded or such?
And, ...
1
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1answer
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How do I create an indentation in the first line of every paragraph? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Paragraph indenting not working
I'm using parameters as below.
\usepackage{indentfirst}
\setlength{\parindent}{1.5cm}
I'm using \\, \\\\ and \linebreak to create new ...
6
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1answer
391 views
Indenting multiple paragraphs in description
I am trying to put multiple paragraphs in a description, where the body text is indented by one \parindent, and I want to indent the second paragraph by one \parindent relative to the body text ...
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2answers
896 views
How to disable automatic indent?
I know there are some similar questions here, but I haven't found the perfect answer for my problem.
I don't like that TeX indents he first line of each paragraph and I'm too lazy to write \noindent ...
4
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1answer
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Numbered, hanging paragraph without list environment
I often quote text (legal sources). Normally I use the quoting-package and csquotes (block quote).
Often, the quotation contains some lists, and often with a non-standard numbering (f. ex. § 4-1(a)), ...
4
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1answer
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How to set parindent in apa class?
Usually one can adjust paragraph indent with
\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}
but that fails for the apa class. Is there another way to get rid of this indents in this class?
4
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2answers
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How can I get spacing between paragraphs while also keeping the default indentations?
I'm using the report documentclass, and the paragraph formatting looks something like this with two paragraphs:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nam ac odio est.
Morbi vel ...
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Difference between setting parindent and hangindent
Is there a difference between setting
\parindent to 1em
and to setting
\parindent to 0em, \hangindent to 1em, and \hangafter to -1
that shows in practical use? The nodes created by TeX are ...
3
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3answers
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Indent first paragraph only once
I'm writing a document in English which includes an abstract in Spanish. In Spanish the first paragraph of a chapter should be indented, while in English shouldn't.
If I use indentfirst package, all ...
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Why xelatex indents only the first paragraph?
Example:
\documentclass[a4paper,titlepage]{article}
\usepackage{xltxtra}
\setmainfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Times New Roman}
\usepackage[margin=0.5in]{geometry}
...
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0answers
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\usepackage{indentfirst} [closed]
I have been typing up a project in LaTeX recently and I realised that the indentation was not working at all on any of my document.
I therefore looked up a way to resolve this online and found on a ...
1
vote
1answer
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half parskip in koma scrartcl resulting in space at the end of last line before next paragraph
I wrote some things and wanted to have a part of those left aligned and on the same line some words (or formulas) right aligned. I solved that with \hfill.
So sad it is not working on the last line ...
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How do you change indentation in the middle of a paragraph?
I'll start with a little background info. Maybe it will help find an alternative solution.
I have made a few macros for simple indented lists, text-editor-efficient (just add or remove an x to change ...
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Cancel/undo a \setlength{\parindent}{3ex}
Assume I want to have a section within an article with different indentation/parskipping. Is there a way to undo that command at the end of the section so the next section behaves again as if I never ...
2
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1answer
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Creating LyX Layouts – No indents for first paragraphs
Based on article.cls, I created my own Document Class with a new Environment, called "Body." It shows up right when compiled, but it doesn't appear in LyX correctly. It's supposed to have the same ...
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3answers
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When to indent a paragraph?
I use indentation of the first line for paragraphs. When a new paragraph starts after a code listing (or some other figure), this looks a bit unpleasant to me. What is the typographical convention for ...
2
votes
1answer
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Paragraph indenting not working
For some reason in my code my paragraph indents aren't working.
I'm using MikTeX 2.9 on Windows 7 compiling with XeLaTeX. I'm using multicols for a 2 column layout but I'm not sure if thats the ...
3
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2answers
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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 ...
