I am writing my master's thesis on Latex with TeXShop Version 3.88 on macOS Sierra. Anyone could help me as to why none of my paragraphs are indented, please?
MWE:
\documentclass[a4paper, 11pt]{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{cite}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[ansinew]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{amsmath, nccmath, amsfonts, amssymb, amsthm}
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{listings}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage{titletoc}
\usepackage{trfsigns}
\usepackage{wrapfig}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{subfig}
\usepackage{datetime}
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{placeins}
\usepackage[pdfborder={0 0 0}]{hyperref}
\usepackage{relsize}
\usepackage{comment}
\usepackage{Macros_SCF}
\usepackage{mathrsfs}
\usepackage[toc]{glossaries}
\usepackage{indentfirst}
\includecomment{Graphics}
\titleformat{\section}{\normalfont\large\bfseries}{\thesection}{1em}{}
\titleformat{\subsection}{\normalfont\large\bfseries}{\thesubsection}{1em}{}
\titleformat{\paragraph}{\normalfont\bfseries}{\theparagraph}{}{}
\titlespacing{\section}{0pt}{6pt}{6pt}
\titlespacing{\subsection}{0pt}{3pt}{3pt}
\titlespacing{\paragraph}{0pt}{3pt}{-1pt}
\newcolumntype{Y}{>{\centering\arraybackslash}X}
\addtolength{\textwidth}{2.1cm}
\addtolength{\topmargin}{-2.4cm}
\addtolength{\oddsidemargin}{-1.1 cm}
\addtolength{\textheight}{4.5cm}
\setlength{\columnsep}{0.7cm}
\newlength{\mytocsep}
\setlength{\mytocsep}{1.5em}
\titlecontents{section}[0pt]{\addvspace{1pc}\bfseries}{\contentslabel{\mytocsep}}{}
{\titlerule*[0.5pc]{-}\contentspage}
\newcommand{\myunnumberedsection}[1]{\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{#1}%
\section*{#1}}
\begin{document}
\setlength\parindent{30pt}
\section{Introduction}
\begin{flushleft}
\subsection{first subsection}
\end{flushleft}
\begin{flushleft}
This is the first paragraph. This is the first paragraph. This is the first paragraph.
\indent
This is the second paragraph, which should be indented but is not.
This is the second paragraph, which should be indented but is not.
This is the second paragraph, which should be indented but is not.
\end{flushleft}
\end{document}
\raggedright
rather than theflushleft
environment. Specify it before setting the value of\parindent
....\raggedright \setlength\parindent{30pt} \begin{document} \section{Introduction} \subsection{first subsection} This is the first paragraph. This is the first paragraph. This is the first paragraph. This is the second paragraph, which should be indented but is not. This is the second paragraph, which should be indented but is not. This is the second paragraph, which should be indented but is not. \end{document}
\usepackage[ansinew]{inputenc}
use a standard encoding (ansinew is not from ANSI:-) preferably[utf8]
or if you want a single byte encoding, use[latin1]