[OS X TeX] Paragraph Spacing

[Aaron Jackson]

Or you could just use \\ and \indent.

On Nov 14, 2004, at 6:14 PM, Maarten Sneep wrote:

> On 14 nov 2004, at 23:53, George Ghio wrote:
>
>> How do I close up the gaps? I have used <\setlength{\parskip}{-3.5ex}>
>> which is less than satisfactory in that the spacing is not quite 
>> consistent
>>  across the document.
>
> Wrong command: the \paragraph command is actually a sectioning command 
> (\part, \chapter, \section, \subsection, \subsubsection, \paragraph, 
> \subparagraph, each taking a parameter to be used as a title, and they 
> all have an optional parameter for use in other locations than the 
> title itself (ToC, page headers)). I may have missed a level, I 
> usually don't go that deep.
>
> Normal paragraph breaking is done either with an empty line, like this:
>
> When he goes by people turn away and shut their doors. He is a
> part of the town they don't want to know about.
>
> I first met Jack on one of those nights with broken cloud scudding
> past on the wind. I had just left a friends house and was going home. 
> I came
> around the corner and there he was. Right in the middle of the road. 
> Hell! He
> was right in front of me. I swerved and hit the brakes. It was too 
> little
> too late. I went right over him. I sat there clutching the wheel 
> shaking. When
> I looked up I saw Jack and his dog walking up the road. Cloud passed 
> across
> the moon and he disappeared.
>
> I must have sat there for an hour before I stopped shaking enough
> to drive home. It took me thirty minutes to drive the eight kilometres 
> to my
> place.
>
> (And setting the lengths \parskip to 0pt, and \parindent to something 
> larger than zero).
>
> if you really want a command, used \par, but I _strongly_ suggest you 
> use empty lines in your sources, as it makes it easier to see where 
> each paragraph ends.
>
> Regards,
>
> Maarten
>
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