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From: palkovic@linac.fnal.gov (John A. Palkovic)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Every paragraph must be indented
Keywords: indentation
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Date: 21 Dec 90 05:19:03 GMT
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In-reply-to: palkovic@linac.fnal.gov's message of 16 Dec 90 07:49:51 GMT

It has been suggested (via email) that I post a followup. I know this
is not considered good style by some. I also know of grad schools and
journals that require it, so someone may find it helpful. The problem
was to make *every* paragraph of a LaTeX report style doc. be
indented.

The best solution came from David Carlisle:

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Put the following code in a file indentfirst.sty

then put
\documentstyle[indentfirst]{report}
or whatever. This should work with report article or book styles.

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%
%                  indentfirst.sty
%                  %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%
% Make the first line of all sections etc be indented by the usual
% paragraph indentation.
%  
%                   David Carlisle
%                   carlisle@uk.ac.man.cs
%                   31/10/90
%
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\let\@st@rtsection\@startsection

\def\@startsection#1#2#3#4{\skip@=#4\relax
\ifdim \skip@ < \z@ \skip@=-\skip@\fi
\@st@rtsection{#1}{#2}{#3}{\skip@}}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

-----------snip snip-----------

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John Palkovic (708) 840-3527	| palkovic@linac.fnal.gov
"A Superconductor generates electricity without resistance when cooled." 
- Chicago Tribune, Oct. 21, 1990, A-18