{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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Is there an easy way to have my whole document with a space between paragraphs rather than indentation?
I would like to have my whole document showing a blank line (or space) between paragraphs and no indentation. I know how to do it line by line, but is there a way to change that with just one or a few ...
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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 ...
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Test if a paragraph has a page break in it?
I'm trying to use TikZ to make fancier frames. I'm using the clever \tikzmark thing that Andrew Stacey wrote to put nodes at the top left and bottom right of the body of an environment.
Then I use ...
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How can I break an align environment for a paragraph?
I would like to have two displayed equations, broken by a short paragraph, but with aligned equal signs (as if using the align environment). Is there some way to "break" the align environment ...
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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
...
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Avoiding “rivers” in successive lines of type
This question led to a new feature in a package:
impnattypo
The following quote is from James Felici, The Complete Manual of Typography (2003), p. 161:
Rivers occur when word spaces stack ...
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Avoid paragraph due to trailing empty line in standalone file
Using my standalone class and package it is possible to compile diagrams etc. inside own files stand-alone or as part of a main document. However, a common user error is to keep an empty line between ...
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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?
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Automatically assign a number to every paragraph
I would like to add a marginal number (don't know the right term; in german „Randnummer“) to every paragraph of text I write. I don't see any other solution, than to write every single number manually ...
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Increasing paragraph indentation in KOMA script
The default parindent in KOMA scrartcl is too small for me. I remember reading somewhere that just changing \parindent directly is not wise, since it also affects other things (like itemize etc). And ...
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1answer
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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 ...
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How to avoid page-breaks inside paragraphs?
I would like to know if there is any global command that would prevent any page-breaks inside paragraphs. I'd rather have the whole paragraph on the next page instead of having it cut in the middle. I ...
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Changing the style of the first *typeset* line of a paragraph
I've been playing around with dropcaps in LaTeX (with the yfonts and lettrine packages), and one typographical effect you often see after dropcaps is having the entire first line of the paragraph ...
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Create new paragraph style in LyX
Background
In OpenOffice and Microsoft Word it takes seconds to create a new paragraph style. Here is how I currently use LyX with the KOMA Script document class to mark text as a quotation:
Type ...
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How to add paragraph line number in right margin
In passages, the line numbers are given on the right side of the paragraph. Like this:
How could this be implemented in LaTeX?
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How can I prevent page break between lines of a paragraph or bibliography entry?
My university's thesis guidelines require that each bibliographic entry appear in whole on a single page, rather than being split across two. How can I prevent (La)TeX breaking a paragraph across a ...
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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 ...
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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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Reduce bibliography to one line
Quick question, hopefully with a quick answer. I'm writing a paper where I'm limited by length (2 pages) and I need references, but it doesn't have to look nice. I'd like LaTeX to compress my ...
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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}
...
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Why is \parskip zero inside a minipage?
This question was originally entitled "inconsistent paragraph spacing with \parskip inside minipage" as the MWE below shows. But I found the answer at How to preserve the same parskip in minipage, ...
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Looking for an \ignorespacesandpars
Is there an analogue of \ignorespaces which will also ignore the following \pars?
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What exactly does \@doendpe do?
Quoting from the LaTeX2e sources:
[\@endparenv, \@doendpe]
To suppress the paragraph indentation in text immediately following a
paragraph-making environment, \everypar is changed to remove ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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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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Format a verbatim paragraph
How can I format a verbatim paragraph? I.e. break, fill and join input lines to produce globally balanced output with the lengths of each line approaching the target \textwidth as closely as possible. ...
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2answers
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How to disable automatic indentation on new paragraphs?
I'm using a template that I can't/shouldn't modify. This template forces that every time a new paragraph begins, there is an indentation added. In some rare cases this is just looking really ugly and ...
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1answer
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Different vertical spacing (parskip) between concurrent section titles and paragraphs
I'm trying to remove the spacing between section headings, but maintain the paragraph to section heading spacing.
Even though I set titlespacing before and after to *0, there is still spacing - quite ...
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votes
2answers
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Indent all but first lines of paragraph.
Inside of a table column with a width determined by a p{5in} tag, I want all but the first line of text to be indented.
Is there any way to achieve this? Doing it by hand would make later edits ...
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Why does a color meant for the first typeset line *only* (with package magaz) affect the *entire* document?
I am trying to make a nice layout that gives a different style to the first line in a section using the package magaz. All examples I have seen feature some variation of small caps
{\scshape text}
or ...
12
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1answer
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How to change \hsize in the middle of a paragraph at pagebreak, especially for two-column?
The original question is: How to get two columns with different width in LaTeX?
I know this older question: How can I create a two-column layout with different widths (and texts) for the two columns? ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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
...
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How to avoid \parskip being applied to \listoffigures etc.?
Follow-up question of Why are \listof{}{} and \listoffigures styled differently?...
With the issue mentioned above I finally managed to design my \listof{}{} and \listoffigures as desired but one ...
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1answer
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How to mark book paragraphs as note, warning, tip etc.?
In my text I have some paragraphs that should be denoted as "note", "caution", "tip", "story". These paragraphs should be rendered with darker background and an icon on the left side.
I was not able ...
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votes
1answer
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How to apply formatting (sans-serif, color etc.) to multiple paragraphs?
Some LaTeX formatting commands like \textcolor{red}{...}, \sout{...} or \textsf{...} work fine when the thing inside is a single paragraph but fail to compile if you put a paragraph break in the ...
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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 ...
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 ...
2
votes
1answer
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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
...
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1answer
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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 ...
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When to use \par and when \\
What is the difference between \par and \\ and when should I use \par instead of \\?
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2answers
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Sentence alignment for dual-line bilingual paragraph translation in LaTeX
I would like to make a translation of entire paragraphs at a time for a large document, with the start of the new sentences aligning. The following is almost what I want done, though it doesn't yet ...
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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 ...
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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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How to highlight an entire paragraph?
I'd like to highlight paragraphs such that the highlight color appears as one whole rectangle underlying the entire paragraph. I have looked around but nothing gives me the desired effect so far.
For ...
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Good strategy for line breaks with paragraphs of LaTeX source
What approach is recommended regarding line breaks when writing paragraphs of LaTeX?
Should a new line be started at the end of each sentence?
Is it better to manually start new lines or to let the ...
