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From: dorai@titan.rice.edu (Dorai Sitaram)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: \parindent rides again
Message-ID: <1991May6.151933.9484@rice.edu>
Date: 6 May 91 15:19:33 GMT
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I'd like for my paragraphs to undergo \parindentation only when they
have leading spaces -- or tabs -- in the source.  (While I'm in broad
agreement with LaTeX's indentation policy -- I do want indented
paragraphs most of the time --, the constant use of \noindent to
suppress \parindentation at several crucial points drives me up the
wall -- in addition to probably being against Hosek's Never Do
Procedurally What You Can Do Structurally commandment.)

  Thus, this paragraph is indented.

This isn't.

I've tried using \everypar to \futurelet the following character
(after making spaces temporarily active) and check for spaceness, but
it appears LaTeX's \sectioning commands -- and probably a host of
others -- mess with \everypar too, occasioning too much crossfire.
I'd be grateful for any ideas.

--d