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From: woo@ornl.gov (John W. Wooten)
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Subject: Re: Indenting first paragraph
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Date: 17 May 91 13:19:02 GMT
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In article <_x-hqdm@rpi.edu> tomliew@aix01.aix.rpi.edu (Thomas Liew) writes:
> Sometime ago there was some discussion on whether to indent the 
> first paragraph immediately following a section title or header.
> I don't remember if anyone illustrated how to do the indentation.
> I had no luck with /indent.  Can some one throw some light on 
> how it can be done.  Well I have no choice as I need to indent 
> that first paragraph to conform to a particular journal style.
> I am using LaTeX to write the paper. 

My reply may be naive, but I always get an indented paragraph by the following  
set of commands:

\section{Section Title}
\noindent

Textual material that I want indented....

I have no real idea why this works, but it does.