Re: Paragraph indentation suppression

[Simon Law]

On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 10:00:55AM +0200, Stepan Kasal wrote:
> 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.)

        That seems like a brilliant (and stunningly obvious) idea.
I feel dumb for not thinking of it myself.  So we can do something like
this:

1. Preserve \everypar
2. Save \parindent and set it to 0pt
3. Redefine \everypar such that it:
   a) Redefines \everypar again such that it:
      i)   Restores \parindent
      ii)  Restores \everypar
      iii) Runs \everypar
   b) Runs the preserved \everypar

> Just my $0.01,
>       Stepan Kasal
> 
> PS: I'm not sending cc to the original poster, as I'm scared by this:
> X-No-CC: If you CC me on this list, I will feed you to Branden Robinson.
> (It seems that Karl has already been fed.)

        Ha ha.

        Thanks for respecting my X-No-Cc: and Mail-Followup-To: headers.

Simon