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Issue

I am trying to set spacing between paragraphs using \parskip but it also affects section titles and "breaks" formatting.

Question

How can I set up a skip between paragraphs without having it influence section formating?

Bonus question

The frame around the title in the screenshot without parksip is closer to the top than to the bottom of the text. Why is that and how can I fix it?

Demo

  1. Default

default

  1. With parskip

parskip

MWE

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{mwe}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\setlength{\parskip}{1em}
\titlespacing*{\section}{0pt}{0pt}{0pt}
\titleformat{\section}
  [frame]
  {\normalfont}
  {}
  {0pt}
  {\quad \Large \bfseries \Roman{section}. \enskip \MakeUppercase}
\begin{document}
\section{Section 1}\label{sec:section-1}
\lipsum[1]
\subsection{Subsection}\label{sec:subsection}
\lipsum[2]
\lipsum[3]
\end{document}

Relevant thread

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  • using the parskip package instead of setting parskip directly will do some of this, but better is to use a class designed for setting with non zero paragraph skip, so the headings already account for this. Commented Mar 15, 2017 at 14:27
  • @DavidCarlisle While it does look nicer it does not completely fix my issue. It also cannot be customized. Could you please explain to me how one would go about creating such a class?
    – Akaizoku
    Commented Mar 15, 2017 at 16:01

1 Answer 1

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Proposed solution

Following the advice of @DavidCarlisle, I removed the custom settings on parskip and simply let the parskip package manage the basic spacing.

Since I still wanted to customize some things, I used the following settings using the titlesec package to tailor it to my needs:

\titlespacing*{\section}      {0em}{.75em}{.5em}
\titlespacing*{\subsection}   {0em}{.50em}{.25em}
\titlespacing*{\subsubsection}{0em}{.50em}{.25em}
\titlespacing*{\paragraph}    {0em}{.25em}{.25em}

MWE

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{mwe}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage{parskip}
\titlespacing*{\section}      {0em}{.75em}{.5em}
\titlespacing*{\subsection}   {0em}{.50em}{.25em}
\titlespacing*{\subsubsection}{0em}{.50em}{.25em}
\titlespacing*{\paragraph}    {0em}{.25em}{.25em}
\titleformat{\section}
  [frame]
  {\normalfont}
  {}
  {0pt}
  {\quad \Large \bfseries \Roman{section}. \enskip \MakeUppercase}
\begin{document}
\section{Section 1}\label{sec:section-1}
\lipsum[1]
\subsection{Subsection}\label{sec:subsection}
\lipsum[2]
\lipsum[3]
\end{document}

Demo

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