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From: dhosek@euler.claremont.edu (Don Hosek)
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Subject: Re: \parindent rides again
Message-ID: <1991May6.182229.1@euler.claremont.edu>
Date: 7 May 91 01:22:29 GMT
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In article <1991May6.151933.9484@rice.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.)

TeX guru: someone who has principals named after him? ;-)
 
>   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.

Aside from the input, you're still being visual. Where and why
are you placing \noindent commands? My money is after displayed
text (equations, quotations, lists). If I'm right, your problem
can be solved by leaving out the blank line after the
\end{equation}, \end{itemize}, \], etc. commands. e.g.,

Einstein's formula
\[
E=mc^{2}
\]
is a simplification of the general form

rather than

Einstein's formula
\[
E=mc^{2}
\]

\noindent is a simplification of the general form


-dh

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