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From: dhosek@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (D.A. Hosek)
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Subject: Re: Paragraph in \itemize
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Date: 5 Jan 90 00:23:27 GMT
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In article <1990Jan4.200857.19580@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu> sane@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu (Aamod Sane) writes:
>I have a lot of text under \item in a \itemize environment in my latex file,
>I tried to get paragraphs by putting 2 newlines as usual, but latex did not
>generate paragraphs in the item. It simply left the line alone without indenting
>as for usual paragraph. 
>	Is there any way to get a normal paragraph in an item?

This is the standard default for LaTeX. Yes, it is possible to have
indentation for the additional paragraphs, (read the section of the
LaTeX manual about the list environment, esp. the descriptions which
appear in the Reference manual section) and set the necessary values 
appropriately. However, unless you have some pressing need to make 
the change (e.g., some publication's formatting requirements--in this
case you should probably be using a document style specifically for
that publication), you may want to just leave it alone. The default
specifications of article, report, and book were selected for maximum
readability and should not be changed haphazardly.

-dh
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