General ⇒ Indent not working

[ivanwest]

Hello all good people,

I have 1 final problem with my thesis. I am not getting indents for my subsections and subsubsections. All is fine with sections.

Here is a snippet of my code that displays the problem.

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\documentclass[10pt]{article}

\setlength{\parindent}{1pc}

\begin{document}

\renewcommand{\thesection}{\Roman{section}}
\renewcommand{\thesubsection}{\Alph{subsection}}
\renewcommand{\thesubsubsection}{\arabic{subsubsection}}

\begin{center}
\section{Background}
\end{center}

This text is fine.\\

\noindent\textit{Just a Seperate Heading (not sectioned)}\\

Also, this text is fine.\\

\subsection{This is a Subsection} 

This is the text that I need indented

\subsubsection{This is a sub subsection}

I also need this text indented

\end{document}

The text after the section does not indent if I remove the centering. ( I want the centering, just mention it for info)

As always, all help is greatly appreciated

Cheers

Ivan

[meho_r]

You need subsections indented or text following subsections? If the latter is needed, then use package "indentfirst" to indent all paragraphs:

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\usepackage{indentfirst}

[ivanwest]

meho_r

worked perfectly, thank you for your time

Ivan

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Ivan,

instead of

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\begin{center}
\section{Title}
\end{center}

I recommend to define centered section titles it by titlesec:

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\usepackage{titlesec}
\titleformat{\section}
  {\centering\normalfont\Large\bfseries}{\thesection}{1em}{}

Btw. using titlesec it's also possible to declare indentation after titles, indentfirst wouldn't be needed then.

Stefan