ragged-right text and preserve paragraph indentation

Question

I want to justify my text to left without losing the paragraph indentation. I tried ragged and flushleft, although both justify the text and the next paragraph. So I am losing intendation. I do not want to do individual paragraphs because my document is pretty long.

Answer 1

Do you just want something like this?

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{kantlipsum}
\newlength{\normalparindent}
\setlength{\normalparindent}{\parindent}
\raggedright
\setlength{\parindent}{\normalparindent}

\begin{document}

\kant[1-3]

\end{document}

Answer 2

Or, using \RaggedRight from the ragged2e package you can assign the desired value to the length \RaggedRightParindent for indentation:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{ragged2e}

\setlength\RaggedRightParindent{15pt}
\RaggedRight

\begin{document}

\lipsum[1-3]

\end{document}

Answer 3

I found that just setting the variable parindent after enabling raggedright, kept paragraph indentation for me.

E.g.,

\raggedright
\parindent=.35in

\begin{document}
    Some text.

    Another paragraph with more text.
\end{document}