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This is probably a duplicate, but I haven't been able to find one.

I remember early on in my days of learning LaTeX that I was in the habit of using \\ to end every line of text. These days, I don't - what I do is I add a blank line after the line of text, and then start a new line of text a few lines later. I.e., instead of

This is some text \\
This is some more text

I do

This is some text

This is some more text

I saw the use of \\ in some code to end every line, and my instinct was that it was bad code.

Can someone (re)-explain to me why it is bad to use \\ to end every line of text, preferably with examples to illustrate the points? Or did I just imagine that it is bad to use \\ to end each line of text?

Clarinetist
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    I think this one http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/82664/ and this one explains it http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/66495/ – percusse Dec 22 '16 at 19:21
  • In short: Add \setlength{\parskip}{6em} \setlength{\parindent}{3em} to the preamble and you will see the difference between line breaks and paragraph breaks. – Fran Dec 23 '16 at 09:23

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