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From: kath@delta.eecs.nwu.edu (William L. Kath)
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Subject: Re: I want indentation after a \section command
Summary: Try this
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Date: 6 Oct 90 05:35:52 GMT
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In article <0093D99C.7E11FCA0@QMD.PHY.NIST.GOV> msd@enh.nist.gov (M. Scott Dewey) writes:
>Dear Experts,
>
>The subject pretty much says it all.  
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>NAME:   Dr. M. Scott Dewey             TELE: (301) 975-4843
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I am not an expert, but in a posting some months ago, Denys Duchier
(duchier-denys@cs.yale.edu) suggested saying \leavevmode\indent after the
section command and before the first paragraph.  This has worked fine for 
me (although I know it is mixing TeX and LaTeX together).

Bill Kath ----------------------- kath@delta.eecs.nwu.edu
             Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
   A Guest of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
McCormick School of Engineering,  Northwestern University