[OS X TeX] What Is New in LATEX?

[Herbert Schulz]

On Jan 16, 2009, at 12:06 PM, Alain Schremmer wrote:

>
> On Jan 16, 2009, at 11:50 AM, Peter Vamos wrote:
>
>> Members of this list might be interested in reading this article by  
>> George Gratzer, no stranger, in the January issue of the AMS Notices
>>
>> 	<http://www.ams.org/notices/200901/tx090100052p.pdf>
>
>
> This gives me the occasion to ask about something I truly dislike,  
> namely that, after a list, the next paragraph is indented which  
> makes it look as somehow part of the previous paragraph inasmuch as  
> it looks as some kind of "intertext" in the list.
>
> As an example, consider the second column in the first page of  
> Grätzer's article:
>
> century.
> 	To work with LaTeX you need …"
> 		• the use of
> 		• automatic
> 		•bibliographic
> 	If you
> 		• write
> 		• use
> 		• do not
> 		• do not
> then you had …
>
> This bothers me so much that, after a list, I always write some  
> "empty" but unindented sentence before the next paragraph. Compare  
> the above with the following:
>
> century.
> 	To work with LaTeX you need …"
> 		• the use of
> 		• automatic
> 		• bibliographic
> which blah, blah, blah.
> 	If you
> 		• write
> 		• use
> 		• do not
> 		• do not
> then you had …
>
> Regards
> --schremmer

Howdy,

I'll bet you're leaving blank line after the environment. LaTeX  
interprets this an end of paragraph so its starts a new paragraph with  
normal indentation. If you don't leave a blank line the line acts as  
though it isn't a new paragraph; i.e., there is no indentation.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)