Re: Paragraph indentation suppression

[Simon Law]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 03:33:02PM -0400, Karl Berry wrote:
>     'suppress' is the correct behaviour 
> 
> Sorry, but I don't agree that it is a matter of correct and incorrect.
> It is a design choice.  I have seen a number of (non-GNU :) books
> printed with first paragraph indentation (no, I don't remember any
> titles offhand, maybe I'm making it all up).

        I see.  From all the personal study I have done, it seems that
the prevaling opinion is that not indenting the first paragraph is the
typographically correct thing to do.  If I am wrong, I'd love to be
shown a reference.

> However, it's true that by far the most prevalent design is to have no
> indentation.  So making that the default does sound reasonable.  We
> don't need to wait for 5.0, either.
> 
> Thanks.

        OK.  You call the shots.

Simon