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From: aryeh@eddie.mit.edu (Aryeh M. Weiss)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: \raggedright bug in LaTeX
Message-ID: <1991Jan16.165730.19791@eddie.mit.edu>
Date: 16 Jan 91 16:57:30 GMT
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In article <127738@linus.mitre.org> djb@babypuss.mitre.org (David J. Braunegg) writes:
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>The bug occurs in *LaTeX*.  I want to get unfilled text with indented
>paragraphs.  \raggedright sets the \parindent to 0.0pt, thus
>preventing paragraph indentation.  However, from the definition of
>\raggedright in lplain, I don't know why:
>
>\def\raggedright{\rightskip\z@ plus2em \spaceskip.3333em \xspaceskip.5em\relax}

The definition of \raggedright in lplain.tex certainly does not set \parindent!
		Therefore this is the WRONG definition.
\raggedright is REDEFINED in latex.tex, overriding the (l)plain definition!
Look in latex.tex and you will find a \raggedright macro that certainly zeroes
out \parindent.  I'm afraid latex has played another cruel hoax on you.
You can define your own raggedright macro or set parindent after using 
raggedright or both.