{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.
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How to increase the size of first character in a chapter (Drop-Caps)
I would like to know how I can increase the size of the first alphabet of first paragraph of a chapter using (Xe/La/?)tex. Please look at the image shown below.
What is such an effect called? How ...
5
votes
1answer
517 views
How can I get proper paragraph handling in itemize environments?
I'm using the itemize environment to answer a list of questions, because the output is compact and neat. However, when I need more than one paragraph in one item, the second one is not indented, as it ...
0
votes
1answer
1k views
“There's no line here to end” error when pages break at unfortunate locations
I'm recieving seemingly random There's no line here to end errors at different parts in my code. At first I thought they were truly random and that I had some weird configuration error somewhere, but ...
6
votes
3answers
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How can I indent a block of text for a specified amount? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Indenting a whole paragraph
Write text with some fixed amount of space from the margin
I would like to indent a paragraph or two for a specific amount.
The quote ...
25
votes
3answers
840 views
Does TeX always insert the macro \par?
When the input processor encounters two characters with category code 5 in a row (in other words, a blank line), it inserts the \par macro.
When \vbox{Abc.} ends, TeX ends the current paragraph, but ...
13
votes
2answers
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paragraphed footnote style with bigfoot
I need paragraphed footnotes precisely as manyfoot offers them, but also some of bigfoot's other features (mainly "natural" order of the notes).
As bigfoot is described as "a drop-in replacement of ...
2
votes
2answers
465 views
Cancelling first-line indents after section titles
Another probably very simple formatting question!
Is it possible to define a rule that maintains first-line indents in general, but flushes left the first paragraph following a section heading? ...
10
votes
1answer
447 views
Inconsistent line spacing
If I type something like this:
{\itshape\LARGE
Dunt venim dolorerosto do odit
ametum vulla conum dolore
conulput in vero od el
Dunt venim dolorerosto do odit
ametum vulla conum dolore
...
4
votes
1answer
2k views
Random unwanted space between paragraphs
I generate LaTeX code from XML for a book I'm writing, using pdflatex (Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (Web2C 2009)) and memoir. Very infrequently, there appears to be an extra blank line between two ...
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votes
6answers
5k views
Indenting a whole paragraph
How do I indent a whole paragraph at the same distance from my left margin, with the simplest command or environment?
2
votes
1answer
335 views
Lineheight of \huge text too small
I have the following two titles in my custom title page: (originally two different languages)
\begin{center}
{\Large
My Thesis\\
\vspace*{0.5cm}
\textbf{\huge
...
3
votes
3answers
705 views
Occasional gap between paragraphs, no indent on first para
In LaTeX I'm using memoir class. I want to break long passages into logical units with some white inter-paragraph space. \medskip etc. indents the first subsequent paragraph - I want it unindented, as ...
10
votes
1answer
414 views
How to reduce the space between two footnotes, making them seem more like two paragraphs?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage[doublespacing]{setspace}
%\usepackage[onehalfspacing]{setspace}
\setlength{\parskip}{0pt}
\usepackage[b5paper]{geometry}
\begin{document}
...
8
votes
2answers
902 views
Paragraph spacing affecting table of contents [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is there an easy way to have my whole document with a space between paragraphs rather than indentation?
I am trying to increase the spacing between paragraphs, using
...
4
votes
1answer
760 views
How to prevent the paragraphs to spread out over the page?
I have a problem. I have several large equations within the text. And when LaTeX does not manage to put the equation on the same page and moves it to the next one, he spreads the paragraphs of the ...
5
votes
1answer
263 views
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. ...
13
votes
2answers
680 views
Very specific paragraph shape
I'd like to write something in the shape of this "coat of arms".
I'd like to have the text filling the coat but with a hole roughly in the shape of the sword. I know there is the \shapepar command ...
0
votes
3answers
1k views
Why gap + indent after \\ and [return]
I'm using TeXLive (pdftex) with TexShop on my Mac and usually, I don't format my .tex files. Now that I have to write some bigger ones, the code soon gets too messy to read and I tried to insert some ...
7
votes
4answers
691 views
How to layout irregular paragraph shape
I have found this in the cover of seminar(one tool to make slide) document.
The final result I have captured below:
The complete document can download here.
I wonder how to make this. Is there ...
3
votes
1answer
756 views
Globally set Paragraph top and bottom margins
I have the below code :
\documentclass[12pt]{book}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\lipsum[1]
\lipsum[1]
\end{document}
I would like to be able to define the margins of new paragraphs. I ...
4
votes
2answers
14k views
New line after paragraph? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
paragraph style - how to force line break? \paragraph{} \\ - make paragraph a header?
I have the following problem. I have a paragraph and only after this single ...
1
vote
1answer
208 views
How to remove the skip after a listing when “\parskip” is increased with “\baselineskip”?
I've increased \parskip with \baselineskip to use the "skipped" paragrahs style instead of the default "indented" style. However, this causes all listings to automatically include a baselineskip ...
2
votes
1answer
154 views
New command for inline text
As I did not get an answer I was fully satisfied with in my last thread, although there were many great suggestions. I will therefore try to rephrase my question here. I also have some new inputs, ...
13
votes
5answers
516 views
How can I indent the paragraphs which follow a heading?
I am trying to write a text where the first line of each paragraph has an indent(tab). But for some reason, in a chapter or a section or subsection, except the first paragraph, the rest of the ...
6
votes
1answer
441 views
Stanza breaks with verse package
I am trying to enforce stanza breaks via a blank line as explained in the verse package documentation.
Stanza breaks do not seem to eventuate with this MWE:
\documentclass{memoir}
\usepackage{verse}
...
9
votes
3answers
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Indent an entire paragraph / section?
I am writing a document with some odd spacing. I am copying another document, and therefrore the layout must be almost exact. I have sections divided by letters below, and some paragraphs in each ...
4
votes
1answer
920 views
Increase indentation of a paragraph
I am using the moderncv package for making my resume however I am new to LaTeX, so please forgive me if this has been repeated (I did search) or is too stupid!
How do I increase the indent of a ...
5
votes
4answers
523 views
Verse environment won't set in italics
Could someone please help me fix the following problem? I want to typeset an indented paragraph in italics. Using the verse package, the paragraph typesets without a problem, but when I try to add ...
1
vote
1answer
386 views
paragraph design and single lines
By default LaTeX will
not indent the first paragraph after a section heading
indent every following paragraph
not insert a space between paragraphs
\section{heading}
first paragraph which is not ...
2
votes
3answers
569 views
single line - no indentation break before and after
What's the easiest way to have a line not indented and with a break before and after?
Example:
Following the list of ingredients:
carrots
...
The Latex-Code would be:
Following ...
3
votes
2answers
327 views
Split long string into paragraphs
How can I test a string to see if it has more than one paragraph, and split a string that contains multiple paragraphs into two strings, one with the first paragraph of the original, one with the ...
5
votes
1answer
3k views
Why isn't LaTeX indenting my paragraphs?
I am trying to get latex to indent the first line of each paragraph, but whatever I try I can't seem to get it to work as I would expect reading the documentation. I expect that since I am using the ...
1
vote
3answers
681 views
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 ...
108
votes
5answers
3k views
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 ...
7
votes
1answer
835 views
Footnotes on the same line
For documents with a lot of footnotes, particularly if some are short, it can be nice to have multiple on the same line, e.g.:
this is the first footnote 2. this is the second footnote 3. this
...
24
votes
2answers
487 views
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 ...
11
votes
3answers
412 views
How to display only certain lines of a paragraph?
From reading Knuth's TeX Book (Chapter 14 How TeX Breaks Paragraphs into Lines), I understand that entire paragraphs are read in and then "massaged" by the "line-breaking algorithm" in an optimal way ...
8
votes
4answers
675 views
Centered but left-aligned paragraph
I want to have a paragraph, that is centered but in itself left-aligned. Does somebody of you know how to achieve this?
(I have text in a paragraph, on each line the text is shorter than the width, ...
8
votes
3answers
297 views
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) ...
9
votes
2answers
1k views
Automatic noindent after quote environment
I need to include block quotes in my thesis, and the line following should not be indented. I am using the memoir class with XeLaTeX.
For example the following code:
\begin{quote}
Lorem Ipsum Dolor
...
1
vote
2answers
564 views
New line without paragraph indentation [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Define latex command to create new type of heading
I have to create a new command that makes a new heading style. Here is a simplified version:
...
5
votes
1answer
132 views
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 ...
5
votes
3answers
280 views
Re-use code like figures and paragraphs in other documents
I was wondering if there is a way in which I can reuse the code, for example one figure, that is written in one file into another file.
I want to use something similar to xr package that allows you ...
2
votes
1answer
288 views
Text area shifted right slightly using geometry package
I've just discovered the geometry package, which seems like a nicer way of doing things than manually setting a bunch of lengths, and I'd like to set all my margins to 0.75in. I thought this would be ...
0
votes
0answers
1k views
“! Paragraph ended before \document was complete.<to be read again>\parl.69” [closed]
I'm writing up my latest assignment in LaTeX.
Unfortunately the copy I was given by my lecturer didn't work "out of the box" in LaTeX.
Original: http://pastebin.tlhiv.org/7m9aiLWK
My version: ...
7
votes
2answers
920 views
How to change paragraph separation to indent within blockquote (csquotes)
I am using the package csquotes to generate a blockquote. csquotes inserts what looks like half a blank line between the paragraphs within the quote.
I would prefer to have no vertical space but an ...
5
votes
3answers
534 views
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 ...
2
votes
2answers
240 views
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 ...
4
votes
2answers
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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}
...
\begin{figure}
...
\end{figure}
texttexttext
...
It turns out that it does not put the "texttexttext" on the very left hand side... it leaves ...
-2
votes
1answer
308 views
Exact paragraph style to set in LaTeX? [closed]
How can I set a different padding value for each side? I want a result that corresponds with this HTML/CSS configuration:
<html>
<head>
<style>
div {
background: #444;
...
