I am writing a document in which I would like to be able to use different kinds of paragraph breaks. I want to use indented first lines without a parskip
for most of the new paragraphs, but for slightly bigger jumps in the subject matter I want to have a blank line (or at least a nonzero parskip
). See the example below.
I am currently using line breaks (\\
) in combination with blank lines, but I am aware that this is bad form. Is tere an elegant way to do this without having to redefine parskip every time I want a blank line?
Example:
First paragraph
Second paragraph, indented.
Third paragraph indented and with a blank line.
\medskip
between the paragraphs you want to have a vertical skip:<end of par><blank line>\medskip<blank line><new par>
\\
at the end of a paragraph, it's simply wrong:-) you could use a blank line followed by\bigskip
or whatever or better really consider it as an untitled section eg use\paragraph*{}
and if necessary adjust the spacing specified for that heading.