When writing a book in LaTeX, I would like to delimit new paragraphs with indentation, but sometimes I would like to separate two paragraphs with an empty line, to indicate a bigger break in the text (e.g., longer period of time has passed, change of location, etc.)
All the solutions I have found so far rely on low-level commands like \vspace
and \noindent
. Is there something more "correct"?
Here's what it would look like:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Quisque
non suscipit lacus. Ut fringilla, lectus fermentum sollicitudin
interdum, justo enim vulputate ante, id rhoncus nisi libero eget
eros. Sed porttitor condimentum leo sed malesuada.
Vivamus consectetur sagittis enim. Sed hendrerit, eros ac
condimentum sodales, lectus libero vehicula lorem, quis feugiat
ipsum dui non velit. In a imperdiet nunc. Nunc orci justo,
placerat eget euismod et, volutpat vitae ipsum. Sed congue ipsum
sit amet accumsan interdum. Integer varius tellus vel convallis
suscipit. Mauris nec sapien arcu. Nam ultrices ex ultrices eros
porttitor, eu dapibus elit accumsan. Fusce elementum rhoncus
finibus.
Donec mauris ante, commodo at erat vel, bibendum lacinia nisl.
Curabitur sit amet pharetra lectus, et cursus magna. Nam id
hendrerit metus. Orci varius natoque penatibus et magnis dis
parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. Donec facilisis
vestibulum ante sit amet venenatis.
Phasellus sed risus enim. Interdum et malesuada fames ac ante
ipsum primis in faucibus. Vivamus turpis metus, convallis ac risus ac,
aliquet consectetur velit. Pellentesque gravida turpis ipsum, eu
vestibulum lorem imperdiet ac. Nullam luctus elit in facilisis
ultricies. Sed eleifend eros in iaculis dapibus. Curabitur hendrerit
orci sit amet nulla gravida accumsan.
\vskipsome length}\noindent
. In classicel typography, it is quite common to insert a centred set of three asterisks between such paragraphs.\noindent
and\vsapce
. It is valid, correct commands. However, you can define new environment for those paragraphs, where both commands are included in its definition.