I am using the memoir document class. My first paragraph is not indented, but all others are.
No indent in the first paragraph in a section? explains how to indent them all. I want none of them to be indented. I have good reasons for desiring this.
Is there a simple command to stop indenting paragraphs?
How to do this is described in Section 8.1.1 of the manual (memman) for memoir by setting \parindent to 0em. This can be done by, for example, perhaps,
\setlength{\parindent}{0em}
The manual also suggests setting \parskip to a positive length to give some vertical space between paragraphs. However, consider what happens when a non-indented paragraph ends at a page break and the last line is full. The following non-indented paragraph will start at the top of the next page; the reader will assume that the two paragraphs are actually just one. In general, typographers dislike this style of paragraphing except when they can have manual control of the layout of each page.
I've found that putting the following in the preamble accomplishes it:
\setlength{\parindent}{0in}
