Anyone familiar with using Latex within Emacs (Org-mode) - Why indent para works, but not abnormal parskip (memoir class)

Question

Firstly I will come clean and admit that the only real interaction I have with Latex is from within the Org-mode environment of Emacs.

I am trying to learn latex, however I am finding this confusing as most tutorials for latex are not centered in Emacs.

The main source of confusion is the header of org-mode, where I can declare "Latex_HEADER: arbitrary latex command."

In some instances I have success passing commands to this header prefix. for example

#+LATEX_HEADER: \setlength{\parindent}{0pt}

which sets no indent for each paragraph.

In other instances I have no luck, such as

#+LATEX_HEADER: \abnormalparskip{10}

however my paragraphs have not changed after the above.

Any guidance on what I am doing incorrectly?

Answer 1

I have no idea about org-mode. However the following regular LaTeX code works.

% orgmodeprob.tex  SE 585974
\documentclass{memoir}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}
\abnormalparskip{10pt}

\begin{document}

\lipsum[1]

\lipsum[2]

\lipsum[3]

\end{document}

Note that I used \abnormalparskip{10pt} whereas you said that you used \abnormalparskip{10} which produces an error.