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From: eijkhout@s41.csrd.uiuc.edu (Victor Eijkhout)
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Subject: Re: Indentation of paragraphs versus space between pa
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dorai@tone.rice.edu (Dorai Sitaram) writes:

>Indeed.  BTW, most of the books (novels) I've seen that were printed
>in a certain country [famous for its books!] appear to favor a

What country is that? Printing started in Germany, but the Italians
were the first to have high quality, the Dutch and the Spanish
have had their period, the French were influential in 
the 19th century, and England has had some good bookprinters
too...

>do-nothing paragraph separating style, i.e., neither indentation nor
>vertical space.
[...]
> (In LaTeX, this can be accomplished by ending all
>paragraphs with a ~\mbox{ }.) 

A somewhat better solution is setting
\parfillskip=1cm plus 1fil
             ^^^ 
             or whatever fixed minimum you want.

Victor.