{indentation} is about the first-line indentation of normal {paragraphs} as well as about the indentation of, e.g., {lists}, {quoting} environments, {captions}, and the various elements (sectioning numbers, titles, ...) in a {table-of-contents}.
Questions tagged [indentation]
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Remove Indentation for a Single Paragraph
Is there a way to remove the indentation at the beginning of a paragraph for a single paragraph. I know I could do
\setlength{\parindent}{0cm}
This is my paragraph. Blah blah blah.
\setlength{\parindent}{default}
Where default is whatever the…
Jonathan Gleason
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Set noindent for entire file
Possible Duplicate:
How to disable automatic indentation on new paragraphs?
Is there a way to set noindent for all paragraphs gloablly in latex, so that I do not have to manually do \noindent before each paragraph?
yayu
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How can I change the margins for only part of the text?
Sometimes the margins need to be changed for a particular page, paragraph, or other section of text. For example, if I'm writing a letter and want the left margin to be almost at the right side of the page for the four lines of my address, or if I…
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Remove indent when using enumerate
When we use the enumerate environment, there's an indent created as you can see in the picture:
Is there a way to remove that indent so that everytime I use the enumerate stuff doesn't give me such indent?
Schwale
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How to remove indentation for all paragraphs?
I am finding this very inefficient, every time I type up something MiKTeX just indents for me and I have to enclose everything in \noindent{...}.
Is there a quick way of going past this?
Lemon
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Indent text without using trivlist
Quite a lot environments which change margins (e.g. center, quote, addmargin from KOMA) use internally trivlist. This has some drawbacks, e.g., when the list is directly between two sectioning…
Ulrike Fischer
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Opposite of \parindent
I want to do the opposite of normal paragraph indentation, meaning:
Have no indent on the first line of each paragraph, but
Indent each subsequent line in the paragraph.
Currently I'm using the command \setlength{\parindent}{0pt} to accomplish…
jamaicanworm
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How to define the size of paragraph indent?
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\begin{document}
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Pavasaris
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Indenting a single paragraph in a document of no indentation
I have several paragraphs of text in a LaTeX document. In my preamble I have \setlength{\parindent}{0pt}, but now I have a need to indent a single paragraph for emphasis.
I am wondering if there a more efficient way of doing this than:
This…
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I want to indent the next line by an exactly specified position
I am typesetting an entire math lecture script, where readability often requires me to indent just a line or two for a certain amount, which is ALWAYS different. I would like to have some way of controlling the indent of the next line by an & like…
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Write text with some fixed amount of space from the margin
How would I write the following in LaTeX:
_Abstract_
XXXX This is the
XXXX abstract.
_Keywords_
XXXX keyword1, keyword1
In the above the letter X stands for space.
skeept
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How to switch between two different marginparwidth size?
I like this book layout stewartcalculus, so I want to mimic some of its layout.
In this topic I want to start from the page number 5.
The following is the screenshot: (hopely don't break the copyright :D)
The upper part has shorter marginparwidth…
Display Name
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how to start a new line after inserting a figure without indentation at the beginning of this new line?
\section{last paragraph}
Here are some words in the last paragraph. Now a figure is inserted below.
\begin{figure}[H]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=5cm]{...jpg}
\caption[Example .]{.,,}
\label{...}
\end{figure}
Now I want to start a new line…
rayallen
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Why does \noindent not work properly here?
I defined a new environment, similar (but not equal) to…
1010011010
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When does LaTex add indentation at the start of a paragraph?
Sometimes a paragraph starts with an indentation (which could be turned off with \noindent) but sometimes it does not.
For example, I have currently an article where the section content is not indented, the text after \\ and \newline is not…
lucidbrot
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