Re: Paragraph indentation suppression

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,

On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 11:04:44PM -0400, Simon Law wrote:
>       I think that it doesn't matter much.  (\hangindent=-\parident
> may be optimal.)  The biggest problem, I would say, is to ensure that
> \par occurs once and only once after every section.  This way, it
> becomes rather simple to do the Right Thing on the first paragraph, no
> matter what.  Unfortunately, I don't quite know how to od this.  I shall
> have to think harder.

I would say that a few empty lines after the section title should not
change the behaviour.

So I consider both the origianl attempt (redefining \par) and the
\hangindent approach too fragile.

I suggest to use \everypar, since it's called only when a real paragraph is
started.  (I don't think there is a big difference whether it performs
\kern-\parindent or changes the value of \parindent.)

Just my $0.01,
        Stepan Kasal

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