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I am quite new to LaTex. I separate each of my paragraphs with a double backslash (\\). However, for every paragraph I do so, I get the following error:

Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) in paragraph

Can I ignore this error? Or is there an alternative/better way to use \\?

Thanks!

nohomejerome
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    Why do you end your paragraphs with \\ in the first place? In general \\ should never be used in the running text. – daleif Jan 12 '21 at 09:44
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    @daleif Seems to become a meditation phrase: '\\ should never be used in running text', '\\ should never be used in running text', '\\ should never be used in running text', , ... ommmmmm – gernot Jan 12 '21 at 10:07
  • @gernot use double backpings at each end The \\ overuse seems to come in waves – daleif Jan 12 '21 at 10:21
  • @daleif Thx for the hint with the double backticks. It seems some people start into LaTeX without reading any tutorial first (which I basically understand: who cares for the docs?) – gernot Jan 12 '21 at 11:29
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    @gernot back in the day I wrote my Danish LaTeX book for the same reason. At that time most people learned only from the "not so short guide" and attempted to solve every typesetting issue only using what ever was in that pamphlet. But it also come from bad quality YT videos and Overleaf templates. I think the raise in \Large{....} we have seen comes from a wrong setting in the Overleaf interface. – daleif Jan 12 '21 at 11:37
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    using \\ at the end of a paragarph is always wrong and will generate that warning. It does not add vertical space it adds a new (empty) line of text at the end of the paragraph. – David Carlisle Jan 12 '21 at 11:55
  • if you want vertical space between paragraphs use for example \usepackage{parskip} – David Carlisle Jan 12 '21 at 12:03

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