[OS X TeX] What Is New in LATEX?

[Michael Sharpe]

On Jan 16, 2009, at 11:07 AM, Alain Schremmer wrote:

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> On Jan 16, 2009, at 1:48 PM, Jan Anderssen wrote:
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>>
>>> after a list, the next paragraph is indented
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>> \noindent may be your friend
>>
>> (not a general solution, but it rhymed... und was sich reimt ist  
>> gut .-))
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> (1) It IS, in fact, my friend and I use it a lot because I don't use  
> subsections but, instead, asparaenum.
>
> (2) However, this was not my point here. I think that Grätzer had  
> TWO paragraphs starting""
>
> 	To work with …
>
> 	If you
>
> But because the first paragraph ends with a list and the second  
> paragraph has, immediately after the opening sentence, a list, it  
> looks like the opening sentence of the second paragraph
>
> 	If you
>
> is just an "interitem" in a long list so that there is only one  
> paragraph starting with
>
> —To work with
>
> (3) So either I am wrong in seeing TWO paragraphs in Grätzer's  
> article, or Schulz and yourself, in seing ONE paragraph with an  
> "interitem", validate my point that this is something that LaTeX is  
> not handling in a satisfactory way.

You might find it to your taste to add \usepackage[parfill]{parskip}  
so that you continue to have indented itemizations, but new paragraphs  
are separated by vertical space, not indented. It does not matter if  
you end a paragraph with a list---you will see no visual difference  
normally, unless perhaps glue needs to be stretched or shrunk. I  
prefer this type of output in almost all technical documents.

Michael