Document paragraph spacing changes

Question

I'm a bit confused about the paragraph spacing in my large document. To begin with my document has spaces between the paragraphs, which looks nice. However about halfway through it changes to no spacing, no indentation, which is inconsistent. I had a look online and have tried using \usepackage{parskip}, which made no difference.

I've narrowed down where the spacing changes to the following:

\captionof{figure}{Title}
\begin{center}
\underline{\textbf{Title of Document}}
\begin{enumerate}
\item item 1
\item Item 2
\end{enumerate}
\end{center}

I've tried getting rid of \captionof... with no luck. Any ideas much appreciated, thank you.

Apologies for not putting a working example, here is one:

\documentclass[11pt,openright,a4paper]{report}
\include{DissertationDefs}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage[normalem]{ulem}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{longtable}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{parskip}

\usetikzlibrary{shapes.geometric, arrows}

\begin{document}

\chapter{Chapter One}
Normal paragraph spacing here, all seems to be ok.

There's a gap between here and above.

\captionof{figure}{Title}
\begin{center}
\underline{\textbf{Title of Document}}
\begin{enumerate}
\item item 1
\item Item 2
\end{enumerate}
\end{center}

Paragraphs now have no spacing.

Directly below.

\end{document}

Hope that helps!

Answer 1

There are some issues here, but I focused on the spacing stuff...

• Two lines of text, separated with an empty line --> LaTeX will start a new paragraph
• \captionof adds some vertical spacing above and below to prevent the caption to be to near to the figure/table
• \begin{center}...\end{center} introduces additional spacing.

If all of this should not affect later text the effect must be limited within a \begingroup...\endgroup pair.

---

\documentclass[11pt,openright,a4paper]{report}
\include{DissertationDefs}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage[normalem]{ulem}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{longtable}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{parskip}

\usetikzlibrary{shapes.geometric, arrows}

\begin{document}

\chapter{Chapter One}
Normal paragraph spacing here, all seems to be ok.\newline
There's a gap between here and above.

%\begin{center}
\begingroup
\centering
\captionof{figure}{Title}
\underline{\textbf{Title of Document}}
\begin{enumerate}
\item item 1
\item Item 2
\end{enumerate}
\endgroup

%\end{center}


Paragraphs now have spacing.

Directly below.

\end{document}