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From: eijkhout@s41.csrd.uiuc.edu (Victor Eijkhout)
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Subject: Re: Every paragraph must be indented
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Date: 17 Dec 90 15:51:30 GMT
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palkovic@linac.fnal.gov (John A. Palkovic) writes:

>No doubt this has been asked before. Flamers please ignore. I have RTFM.

Yes. This is in a manual that Lamport should have written,
but hasn't.

There is no simple command to put in your preamble.
You have to dig into the .sty file. (May I ask if you have thought
this decision over, to indent every paragraph? It goes against
all typografic practice. What's you reason for discarding 5 centuries
of tradition, common sense, and experience? Never mind. Just know
what and why you are doing.)

In the .sty files you will find that all sectioning commands
(well, most) are implemented in terms of \@startsection, of which
here follows the explanation from latex.tex:
% \@startsection {NAME}{LEVEL}{INDENT}{BEFORESKIP}{AFTERSKIP}{STYLE}
%            optional * [ALTHEADING]{HEADING}
%    Generic command to start a section.
%    NAME       : e.g., 'subsection'
%    LEVEL      : a number, denoting depth of section -- e.g., chapter=1,
%                 section = 2, etc.
%    INDENT     : Indentation of heading from left margin
%    BEFORESKIP : Absolute value = skip to leave above the heading.
%                 If negative, then paragraph indent of text following
%                 heading is suppressed.
%    AFTERSKIP  : if positive, then skip to leave below heading, else
%                 negative of skip to leave to right of run-in heading.
%    STYLE      : commands to set style

You see that by inverting the beforeskip you can get indentation.

Victor.