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I am writing on a larger text and sometimes I want to begin a new paragraph. So I don't want to have a new heading, just a space for visiual reasons. Currently I use the solution with \\ \newline

For example:

Here is my text text text and now I finish this thought. 
\\ \newline 
Here I begin with another aspect....
 text text

Another solution I can imagine is with vspace, but this is also not really professional, so how should I do this?

Stat Tistician
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    Don't end paragraphs with \\, but leaving an empty line between them. If you really want a vertical space between two paragraphs (but this is rarely necessary or useful), type \medskip after the empty line and before the new paragraph. An empty line after \medskip is optional (but good). – egreg Apr 29 '13 at 10:50
  • @egreg this is not helping me. If I just put in an empty line I do NOT get a new paragraph in my pdf file? It just goes on in the next line, but there is no space between it? This is not a substitute for \ \newline ? This is just like \ – Stat Tistician Apr 29 '13 at 11:17
  • @egreg \medskip is not big enough – Stat Tistician Apr 29 '13 at 11:19
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    @StatTistician You sound like you want blank lines between paragraphs: the typographic tradition adopted 'out of the box' by LaTeX is to have an indent for the first line of each paragraph with no gap. Try \usepackage[parfill]{parskip}. – Joseph Wright Apr 29 '13 at 11:53
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    Then use \bigskip (but my advice is just doing a new paragraph). – egreg Apr 29 '13 at 11:53
  • @egreg thanks, but what do you mean with "just doing a new paragraph" ? Just add an empty line in my latex editor? This gives really almost no space between the paragraphs in my pdf document? – Stat Tistician Apr 29 '13 at 12:10
  • @StatTistician Take some books from your shelf and look at them: how many have big spacing between paragraphs? – egreg Apr 29 '13 at 12:11
  • @egreg at least more space than what I get with just an empty line? – Stat Tistician Apr 29 '13 at 12:12
  • @StatTistician Not in the books I have on my shelf. In my 716 page Penguin edition of David Copperfield there's no vertically spaced paragraph. Vertical spacing is used only for chapter starts and when reporting letters. – egreg Apr 29 '13 at 12:18
  • @egreg but I mean, I just wanted to have a new visual separation, so a new thought is starting. It is not part of the next paragraph, but it also does not connect strongly to the previous part? – Stat Tistician Apr 29 '13 at 12:27
  • @StatTistician Then use \bigskip (but \medskip is less invasive). But I assure you that readers are able to see by themselves that a change of thought has happened. – egreg Apr 29 '13 at 12:29
  • I guess that the OP is trying to do something similar to foooooo\linebreak[1cm]foooooo, that is, just a vertical space between two lines, without indentation. – Sigur Apr 29 '13 at 13:16

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As mentionned in the comments, you should not end paragraphs by \\ \newline, but rather leave an empty line between the paragraphs. Of course, as with many rules there may be an occasion where it is better not to respect it, but these cases are rare.

If you wish to have ALL of your paragraphs separated by more space, you can use \parskip = 10pt (or some other length) in the preamble. There are also some packages that can do this.

Frédéric
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    It is bad practice to simply change the \parskip length; see http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/14565/510 – lockstep Apr 29 '13 at 11:24