changing \parindent in \everypar (was Re: Paragraph indentation suppression)

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,

On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 11:17:56AM -0400, Simon Law wrote:
>       Hmm.  I don't see how we can avoid the second redefinition,
> since we want \parindent to be restored on the second paragraph, and not
> the first.  (Which would be rather useless.)

the problem is now merely academic, as you use \kern-\parindent in
the real patch.
I'm afraid my previous comments were not acurate, as I haven't looked
at the @section code closer.

But anyway, the following example (in plain TeX) inlustrates that you
can redefine \parindent in a paragraph, it'll affect the next paragraph,
but not the current:

\parindent=0pt
\everypar={\parindent7em}
\par\par a\par b \bye

The logic behind is this:
first, the paragraph is opened and \kern\parindent is inserted;
second \everypar is called, in horizontal mode.

But, again, no doubt the solution which doesn't change \parindent
is better.

Stepan Kasal