Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ra!Isis.MsState.Edu!jpl1 From: jpl1@Isis.MsState.Edu (Gamma-Ray Burst) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: \parindent rides again Message-ID: Date: 6 May 91 19:39:39 GMT References: <1991May6.151933.9484@rice.edu> Sender: usenet@ra.MsState.Edu Lines: 19 Nntp-Posting-Host: isis.msstate.edu dorai@titan.rice.edu (Dorai Sitaram) writes: >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.) WHy not simply turn off indent with \parindent=0pt and then define your own indent to use when you want? -- John Patrick Lestrade, PhD Department of Physics and Astronomy Mississippi State University, MS 39762 Voice: (601) 325-2806 Fax: (601) 325-8898