Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!aipna!cstr!tim From: tim@cstr.ed.ac.uk (Tim Bradshaw) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: Indentation of paragraphs versus space between pa Message-ID: Date: 18 Mar 91 12:51:25 GMT References: <1991Mar14.170116.152@otago.ac.nz> Sender: news@aipna.ed.ac.uk Organization: CSTR, University of Edinburgh Lines: 26 In-reply-to: graeme@otago.ac.nz's message of 14 Mar 91 05:21:19 GMT >>>>> On 14 Mar 91 05:21:19 GMT, graeme@otago.ac.nz said: > Indenting paragraphs versus space between paragraphs > [And a lot of reasons why it's a good thing] Well yes. But it's more complex than that isn't it? In the case where some document consists just of lots of paragraphs of reasonable length (i.e. typical work of fiction) then this is a good way to do things, and certainly I think leaving whitespace between paras looks horrible for such documents. But there are documents where this style looks horrid. For instance, consider a document where there are many very short paragraphs -- less than one line. What you end up with in this case is whole regions of the page with indentation, or whole regions of the page which have every other line or so indented. This looks really nasty I think, and some other method of marking paragraphs is preferable there. Actually when I (hand) write letters I just run on paragraphs, marking them with a pilcrow. This has precedents in books I've seen. But TeX can't do this because of memory constraints. (Please don't post some obscure hack that gets around this, I'm sure it can be got around, but it shouldn't need to be obscure to do it!) --tim