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Producing centered asterisk to indicate new section
In a text (or a passage of a text) that is not subdivided by headings -- say, an essay --, a common tool to indicate the start of a new section is a simple asterisk (or other symbol), usually ...
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Minimum length of last line of a paragraph
There is a more or less equivalent question to this: Ensure minimal length of last line, but I absolutely need a TeX solution. I more or less stumbled upon the problem mentioned in the discussion of ...
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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 ...
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How to join paragraphs with a pilcrow \P?
Background
There are many typographically distinct ways to separate paragraphs from one another, the most common being starting each paragraph on a new line with either an indent or additional ...
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Avoid just nearly filled last lines
Old school typesetters never allowed the last line of a paragraph to be just nearly filled. Either it would be clearly shorter than the other lines or it would be stretched to align with the right ...
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No indent in the first paragraph in a section?
I am just curious that the following format looks good to you or not? The preamble I used is just
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amsthm}
\usepackage{amssymb}
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How to typeset definitions with several paragraphs in the KOMA classes
The KOMA classes do not use vertical inter-paragraph spacing with some good arguments (see page 50 of the scrguide).
I defined an environment for definitions with the amsthm package using their ...
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How to define the badness of a river?
I've written an algorithm to try and detect rivers in paragraphs and it actually detects quite a lot when I run it. Some of them are clearly false positives, but there are others that are indeed ...
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Ensure minimal length of last line
This question led to a new feature in a package:
impnattypo
One rule in French typography is that the last line of a paragraph should not be shorter than the double of the indentation of the ...
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Should I leave LaTeX decide the vertical height of the space above a text paragraph?
In my document, above a text paragraph, there are objects of many possibilities: \end{figure}, \end{align*}, $$, \end{itemize}, end{enumerate}, etc... It seems that visually on the final pdf, it does ...
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How and when to remove the space on the left hand of the beginning of a paragraph?
I have something like that:
\section{subsection}
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\begin{figure}
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\end{figure}
texttexttext
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It turns out that it does not put the "texttexttext" on the very left hand side... it leaves ...
