{paragraphs} are distinct text divisions that begin on a new, usually indented line. In TeX, a paragraph is ended by the \par command or at least one blank line. If your question is about the \paragraph or \subparagraph sectioning commands, use {sectioning} plus {sections-paragraphs} instead.
2
votes
2answers
431 views
Perfectly scale line, paragraph, image, anything up to textwidth
I want to scale a multi line text up to the available textwidth. I found something here: pgfplots: how can I scale to text width? and here: ...
9
votes
1answer
845 views
How can I number paragraphs (and sections) in the margin?
I am (still) trying replicate the layout of this document.
Sections and paragraphs are all numbered, in the margin (the chapter titles do not treat this as a margin, but I can ignore that). They are ...
0
votes
0answers
17 views
Add figure after paragraph with no text interruption [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Keeping tables/figures close to where they are mentioned
How to influence the position of float environments like figure and table in LaTeX?
Is it possible to add ...
3
votes
1answer
651 views
Controlling paragraph spacing in LyX
I'm working on a rather large document for my university using LyX. I have been using the report (KOMA-Script) document class.
According to my university's document specification each paragraph ...
15
votes
2answers
1k views
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 ...
1
vote
2answers
135 views
How to make additional paragraph commands that use sectioning counters?
I would like to be able to use the following additional (new) commands: \sparagraph, \ssparagraph, \sssparagraph. All of these will use the \paragraph formatting but, will use different counters. The ...
10
votes
2answers
743 views
Quotations spanning multiple paragraphs in csquotes
I have a quotation which extends for multiple paragraphs. The literary convention is that there is no end-quote at the end of each paragraph, except for the last one.
However, this seems to be ...
6
votes
3answers
4k views
Reducing spacing after headings
I've searched many sites but I couldn't get any answer. Here is this mystical question:
How can i reduce the spacing after headings?
Here is my code.
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
...
5
votes
3answers
154 views
How to set two or more paragraphs to use the same amount of vertical space?
Given several paragraphs in ConTeXt or plain TeX, how can I ensure that all paragraphs use the same amount of vertical space, by adding white space to the end, as the longest paragraph in the set? ...
3
votes
3answers
2k views
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 ...
9
votes
2answers
417 views
Automatically itemize a paragraph
I'd like to use LaTeX for lecture notes but I use bullet lists extensively, and the itemize macro in LaTeX is too time consuming for lecture notes. But if I could teach LaTeX how to do it for me ...
6
votes
1answer
313 views
Mark (highlight) a paragraph (\item{…}) with a squiggly line for later attention
I'd like to mark one or more of my \item{...}'s in an enumeration with a squiggly line at the right so that I can easily see which parts I have to re-phrase/re-write later on. All I have found is how ...
7
votes
1answer
117 views
How can I prevent a new paragraph between two \input commands?
I want to use the command \input{} to insert two textfiles, text1.tex and text2.tex, into my latex working file. I want these two textfiles to produce one single paragraph when I am compiling my ...
3
votes
1answer
178 views
everything is bold, and pagebreaks are appearing in the wrong place
I'm just starting trying to use texmaker 3.3.2. I think I understand the basics but already in a very short document, I have multiple problems. I just downloaded texmaker so I don't think I ...
4
votes
1answer
838 views
Change paragraph font and background color
I'm submitting a project that involves blocks of code.
I figured a nice way to present it by be that paragraphs of code are black text on a light gray background, in courier font.
I'm wondering if ...
6
votes
3answers
343 views
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 ...
1
vote
1answer
177 views
How to allow page-breaks in columns/list
I've got a following fragment to display in two columns:
Some heading Some longer
description
* with
* a
* list
I'm using ...
7
votes
2answers
653 views
Nominal values for \parindent and other paragraph metrics
In memoir, when I run
\documentclass{memoir}
\begin{document}
\showthe\parindent
\end{document}
I get:
17.62482 pt
My questions are :
Why that value? This number seems to capture something ...
10
votes
3answers
2k views
How to colour multiple paragraphs?
I have a set of commands in my document's preamble that look like this:
\newcommand{\nathaniel}[1]{\textcolor{blue}{[#1]}}
\newcommand{\anotherAuthor}[1]{\textcolor{darkgreen}{[#1]}}
They are to ...
3
votes
2answers
248 views
How to keep the paragraph and subsequent image on one page?
I have a text, where pictures are interleaved with descriptions for them. And since pictures are quite big, sometimes picture moves to next page, but the description for it stays on the previous page, ...
1
vote
2answers
232 views
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}
...
9
votes
3answers
15k views
How to insert vertical space between paragraphs [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is there an easy way to have my whole document with a space between paragraphs rather than indentation?
Googling didn't give required results. (Many, but not applicable ...
6
votes
1answer
224 views
Horizontal character width scaling
I'm interested in saving space by scaling all characters in a passage of text to, say 95% of their normal horizontal character widths. In Microsoft Word this is done with the Scale field under the ...
4
votes
2answers
203 views
Create a macro for heading
LNCS class requires 3rd-level heading to be "Run-in Heading in Bold. Text follows" at 10 point, bold
It seems that there is no existing macro for that, so I have written:
...
10
votes
2answers
4k views
Temporarily increase line spacing
How do I temporarily increase line spacing? I have some text on my title page:
\begin{center}
{ \Large \textbf{The Great Thesis About Some Very Great Things Indeed With
a Pretty Long Title That Will ...
5
votes
2answers
1k views
How do you put multiple paragraphs in a caption?
I have a really long caption for a figure in a LaTeX document. I would like to break the caption into a few paragraphs. How do I do that?
As per the request below, I removed everything I could ...
0
votes
0answers
1k views
\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 ...
2
votes
2answers
243 views
Two paragraphs side-by-side and page breaks
I have a little mind puzzle here. This idea was bugging me since I saw a question about breaking cells in a table on a page break. Let's think of a table row that's built from cells that are ...
4
votes
2answers
195 views
How do I stop tables from messing with alignment?
I'm new to TeX and I'm having a hard time understanding how paragraphs, alignment, indentation, and all that works.
Some text here.
\begin{tabular}{ l l }
a & b \\
c & d \\
\end{tabular}
...
1
vote
1answer
348 views
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 ...
8
votes
6answers
1k views
Setting a single equation in a paragraph in a smaller font
I'm trying to figure out the best way of making a single equation just a little bit smaller. Of course, I could try and break up the equation into pieces and proceed that way, but I'd like to ...
2
votes
3answers
471 views
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 ...
13
votes
2answers
1k views
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 ...
5
votes
2answers
341 views
How do I embed equations in the text?
Let's say I have a text block like this:
Within the field of texture analysis, a number of categories of
methods exist, and even if we restrict ourselves to statistical
methods, a large number ...
2
votes
1answer
2k views
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 ...
3
votes
1answer
228 views
Text on the left, picture on the right and other text follows
I use the following code to produce a picture on the right of the text
\documentclass[12pt,landscape]{article}
\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{wrapfig}
\begin{document}
...
3
votes
1answer
108 views
Problem with using soul in paragraph mode and siunitx immediately after
This problem seems somewhat obscure, it is potentially a bug in siunitx or soul (I am aware of issues with the latter). Which one is uncertain and I'm not certain that it is a bug.
What I want to do ...
10
votes
3answers
563 views
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 ...
14
votes
1answer
878 views
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 ...
2
votes
1answer
2k views
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 ...
9
votes
2answers
263 views
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 ...
7
votes
2answers
179 views
How to write “note:” in front of an indented paragraph
I have a question similar to this one:
How to mark book paragraphs as note, warning, tip etc.?
I'd like to have my paragraph indented and the text "note:" appear just before it. Ideally this would ...
14
votes
3answers
627 views
How to wrap text around a figure? (revised)
This question has been asked before (and in fact I stole the diagram below from that question) but the answers are not sufficient for my needs (at least near as I can tell).
What I want is the ...
3
votes
2answers
231 views
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 ...
2
votes
1answer
411 views
Set first paragraph no indentation after re-definition of section
I'm trying to avoid the indentation of the first paragraph that is introduced by the SciTePress.sty style. I think that the problem is the redefinition of \section within the style. Because, if I ...
8
votes
1answer
8k views
How to use the parskip package? (space in between paragraphs)
Sorry, because I think it's a many times asked topic. But I don't find an example which help me to understand how to create a white space between paragraphs.
I think parskip is the package I need to ...
3
votes
1answer
997 views
New paragraph without indent in KOMA Script
This might be the stupidest question ever asked on TeX.sx, but I recently changed my paragraphing style and now run into problems. Consider the following MWE:
\documentclass{scrartcl}
...
22
votes
3answers
538 views
What is the best way to draw two lines in LaTeX?
Bill Bryson's book, The lost continent: travels in small-town America has an unusual first paragraph opening style. It has the equivalent of a long equal sign, followed by the first three words ...
8
votes
1answer
728 views
Is it possible to have multiple paragraphs inside a multicolumn using xcolor or a replacement?
I am getting information written by users in many lines, paragraphs, and I have to put those inside a table, I would like to know if it is possible to instruct LaTeX to accept paragraphs inside a ...
29
votes
3answers
10k views
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}
...
