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I am writing a document in a class (elsarticle) that indents the first lines of all paragraphs, including the ones following headings. However, I would like to revert back to the default Latex behavior indenting all but the first paragraphs.

Of course I can do this manually using \noindent, but isn't there a better way?

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  • This is a precise choice by the elsarticle class; if you're using it for submitting a paper, don't modify its behavior. – egreg Sep 9 '13 at 11:19
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    @egreg: Not to veer too much off-topic here, but… I am sure that they will change it back to their convention if they publish the paper. But I dislike their convention and feel that I am entitled to chose my own for my preprint. – xebtl Sep 10 '13 at 11:05
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You can set the internally used condition \if@afterindent for this indentation permanently to "false".

\documentclass[11pt]{elsarticle}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{blindtext}  % drop in actual document

\makeatletter
\let\@afterindenttrue\@afterindentfalse
\makeatother

\begin{document}
  \blinddocument  % drop in actual document
\end{document}

Note that the »blindtext« package is only used for creating the dummy document here, thus is not part of the solution.

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  • Umm, that looks line it removes indentation from more places than you would expect. – einpoklum Jun 27 '14 at 20:18

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